Laali-gyul, the Ruby of the Bosporus. Laal is the stone, gyul is the rose. And Laaligyul is the name of the heroine.

The true story of a Cretan girl who is abducted at the age of 15 by traffickers and transported as a gift to the harem of Sultan Abdulaziz at the Dolmabahçe Palace. Abdulaziz, a prisoner of the sultanate, a inhumane system that he cannot modify, despite his good intentions for modernization, and his desperate attempts to prevent the collapse of his Empire, tragically ends up being a victim of those very efforts.

History repeats itself over and over again! The action unfolds in the palaces of Dolmabahçe, Beylerbeyi, Çırağan, and Yıldız. In the most beautiful and luxurious palaces of the most beautiful and legendary City in the world. The City of the Two Empires.

(. . .) [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]