Gold and Fire

In a Mediterranean city growing vertically on concrete pillars, engineer Nadia discovers that some buildings are nothing more than delayed graves, built on systematic fraud and a complex network of corruption. The story begins with small cracks in the walls of Hayy al-Salam, leading us to warehouses full of adulterated materials, a charity used as a front for money laundering, and an influential family trying to hide the truth at any cost. Gold and Fire is a social detective novel that reveals the behind-the-scenes world of construction and places the reader at the heart of a fierce confrontation between a young engineer who clings to honesty, even if she is alone, and a network of corruption that extends from workshops to courtrooms.
It is a story about justice rising from the rubble, and about the price paid by those who refuse to remain silent in the face of a house threatening to collapse on its inhabitants.