Fluent in Forbidden

Six languages. Two prisoners. One dangerous secret. ​Mikael is a ghost in a gilded cage. To the wealthy Al-Faye family in Beirut, he is just the uneducated domestic worker who scrubs their floors. They don’t know he’s a self-taught polyglot who understands their business secrets in six different languages. They don't know he's saving every cent to buy his way to a new life at the UN. Then there is Julian—the family’s "black sheep" brother. Half-Lebanese, half-Australian, and entirely unwanted. He’s the loud, arrogant mess who was never supposed to notice the help. ​Everything changes when Mikael catches Julian protecting the boss’s daughter from a scandal that could destroy them all. Now, the worker and the brother share a secret that puts a target on both their backs. ​In a country where their love is a crime and in a house where every wall has ears, they develop a secret language of their own—one spoken in hidden touches and whispers behind closed doors. But as the heat rises, so does the risk. Can Mikael translate his way to freedom, or will the weight of their forbidden words bury them both?