Haseki Nurichihan Sultan-a name once lost to history, now rediscovered in the forgotten corners of time. Her tale begins when, at the age of thirteen, Adeline, daughter of a Greek diplomat, was stolen from her homeland by Tatar raiders. Sold into the Crimean Palace, she learned the brutal art of survival within the harem. But survival, for her, was just the beginning.
At sixteen, she was gifted to Sultan Suleiman, her beauty and intelligence outshining the rest. Arriving alongside Hurrem, she entered a world where fire and air would soon collide. If Hurrem was fire-passionate, fierce, unstoppable-Adeline was air-silent, subtle, yet ever-present, slipping through cracks unnoticed, yet capable of moving mountains. The contrast between them was as undeniable as it was dangerous.
In a palace where the stakes were nothing less than the Sultan's heart, and where the throne itself was the ultimate prize, Adeline's role was clear: to survive, to outlast, and to rise. She would become a force in the shadows, watching, learning, and waiting for the perfect moment to strike. A rival to Hurrem, yet with a strategy so quiet, so deliberate, it could never be predicted.
This is the story of a woman who bent history to her will, playing a game of power where only the ruthless and the patient emerge victorious. Will her son claim the throne, or will the fire of Hurrem burn too bright? Time will tell.
"The taste of your lips is true satisfaction and pleasure. Hence your name is Zevki"
ꜰʀᴀɴᴄᴇꜱᴄᴀ ꜰᴏʀᴛᴜɴᴀ is the unlucky sister of Isabella Fortuna, princess of Spain. Francesca is condemned to a marriage she doesn't want, and the only way out of it is to escape. Escape, or have your fate decided for you.
Unfortunately, Francesca gets captured by Mehmet Pasha and taken to the harem of the recently crowned Sultan Süleyman. Francesca's elusiveness and Spanish charm woo the Sultan into forgetting his intimate love with Hürrem as Zevki becomes his new beloved, and after giving birth to children she becomes his Haseki, Zevki Sultan.
The drama doesn't end there as Zevki battles the likes of Hürrem Sultan and others as she fights to cement her legacy in the Sultanate of Woman.