Marrakech Mirage: A Novel of Luxury, Family Secrets, and Second Acts in Morocco's Red City

Behind the most beautiful door in Marrakech, a wing has been sealed for thirty years. She was hired to launch the hotel - not to open it. Demi Amrani launches hotels for a living, and she is running out of chances. Two years after taking the blame for a catastrophic opening in Dubai, she lands the engagement that could rebuild her name: eight weeks to open Dar Siham, a nineteenth-century palace in the Marrakech medina, for the formidable Benslimane family. The fee is generous. The authority is total. There is only one clause: the east wing - a third of the palace - is sealed, excluded, and absolutely off limits. But Demi has spent fifteen years reading buildings the way other people read faces, and this one is lying. A scar in the plaster. A fire no official record admits ever happened. An architect son whose restoration of the wing was cancelled in an eleven-minute family meeting. And as anonymous notes appear behind locked doors and a Gulf hospitality empire circles the family's fortune, Demi realizes the launch of the season is built directly on top of a thirty-year-old crime - and someone inside the walls is selling the family piece by piece. If you love ambitious women who refuse to look away, sun-drenched international settings, slow-burn romance, and family sagas where every secret has a price, Marrakech Mirage will keep you reading deep into the night. Perfect for readers of Lucinda Riley, Kristin Hannah's sweeping family dramas, and anyone who devoured The White Lotus. Marrakech Mirage is a standalone novel in the Demi Rush International Series - a new city, a new circle, a new test in every book. Read them in any order. Scroll up and step through the door. Marrakech is waiting.