Jerusalem, 1914. The Ottoman Empire holds the city, the war has stripped the food from the shelves and the young men from the streets, and a Turkish officer reins in his white horse outside a house in the Jewish neighbourhood of Yemin Moshe. Behind the gate, sixteen-year-old Victoria looks up — and her green eyes meet his. That single glance sets an unstoppable fate in motion: a forbidden love that will consume the officer who commands the city’s prison, a Persian merchant’s son who has dreamed of those same eyes a thousand miles away, and the family that will do anything to save Victoria from herself. From the stone alleys of Jerusalem to the mountains of Persia, across a crumbling empire and five languages, RULE — inspired by true events — is an epic of desire, faith and superstition, driven by a fate no one caught in it can outrun.