At last, Khalifa and Lailah have confessed their feelings to one another-but in a cruel twist of fate, time has run out, and the cursed crest is complete. There is one last hope: Lailah's estranged great-aunt Monir may yet hold the key to a cure. As Khalifa and Lutf race against the clock to find her, Malaika sets her carefully calculated escape plan into motion.
