You never wanted to be in an arranged marriage. No one dreams of such a fate. The very idea of being bound to someone you barely know feels like a cruel joke. For over a year, you had been married to a man with whom you'd exchanged little more than formal greetings and awkward small talk. It was not the life you had envisioned for yourself. You had longed for a love that would fill your days with joy, the kind of love that stories are made of.

Instead, you found yourself on a barren desert planet, trapped