A story of Prohibited love, of terrorism and war, and the raw lives of a war-stricken land and its people. Tamina, a 19-year-old girl, survives a turbulent time, and meets a soldier named Jacob, from a land which she had never heard of. Despite being different from each other in all aspects, they find love amidst the war between her country and the budding terrorist organisation, the 'Sharias'. The story depicts her journey into adulthood, her land's unstable future in the hands of foreigners, of the terrorist organisation 'the Sharias' and her love that has been nipped by the cruelty of war and invasion by the foreigners as well as the 'Sharias'. A fiction written without a veil or extension, 'Under the merciless sun' is the raw depiction of those people and lands threatened by war, of foreign invasion and terrorism.

Under the merciless sun

‘It’s okay to tell me. ‘Aahida said patting her shoulder once again. 


Tamina straightened her back and leaned on the bedpost. She closed her eyes and prepared herself. 


‘It will lessen the burden of your soul, at least a little.’ Aahida said encouraging Tamina. 


‘I was also born in Belgarath, just like you, to Kamran and Aisha. My father was a cobbler and I had a brother, Tariq 


‘The first Sharia attack, at the Marwah. I lost him that day.’ 


‘So were my parents, they owned a little store at the Marwah.’ Aahida said with a sigh. Tamina looked stared at the women in front of her. She now knew that they were so similar and shared the same fate. Almost every Belgarathians story was like this, except they become a terrorist at the end. 


Chapter 24