Bookiut: Songs of the Runaway Heart (L167)

Kamelia’s goal was to get into Harvard. It led her to loneliness, spending nights studying, deserted by friends.

Haikal did not have a goal. His main concerns were his motorcycle, his nights out in Kuala Lumpur, and his brothers.

Despite their fathers’ bond over wealth and luxuries, Kamelia and Haikal’s bond was made up of glares and stolen ice pops. But one day, everything stopped. The banter, the bag-tugging, the eye-rolling.

Kamelia had disappeared, gone overnight.

Nine years pass. Haikal’s life revolves around his daughter rather than his motorcycle. His main concerns are balancing work at the law firm and being a single father. But then he meets a woman with chaotic brown hair, red lips, and sunglasses, living in her van. Regardless of her appearance, he knows it’s her—Kamelia, the girl from his childhood. Memories come flooding back, and Haikal is determined to find out what led to Kamelia’s mysterious disappearance.