The Unnamed "Purple"

Some relationships don't come with a name. That doesn't make them any less real.
Eighteen-year-old Ziya has learned to survive her home the only way she knows how — by laughing too loud, moving too fast, and never letting anyone see what she's carrying. When she finally runs out of road, she makes one midnight call to a man she barely knows.
Vicky answers. And keeps answering, for the next decade.
What grows between them isn't romance. It isn't family, not in any way the world has a word for. As Ziya transforms from a frightened girl on a dark small-town road into Riti — an internationally celebrated fashion stylist — and as Vicky's own carefully composed life quietly comes undone behind it, their bond is tested by everything a bond like theirs was never supposed to survive: gossip, distance, jealousy, an extortion attempt, a devastating public scandal, and the hardest test of all — growing up, growing apart, and choosing, again and again, to stay anyway.
The Unnamed is a story about the people who shape us most — not the ones society hands us a category for, but the ones we choose, and keep choosing, with nothing to gain and nothing to prove.
Some things are stronger for never being named at all.