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This one begins with a mistake.

Hamza Ghazouani was supposed to have it all figured out by now. His little sister just got married. His parents want him settled, serious, and easier to explain at dinner parties. The North African community that once praised him now treats him like a cautionary tale. 

With a Porsche he shouldn’t own, a cat he didn’t adopt, and a flat that smells like burnout and expired ambition, Hamza is trying to prove he’s not the disappointment everyone thinks he is. He’s living alone for the first time, building a new life with borrowed tools and bottled pride, and starting to see that pretending not to care is no longer a sustainable personality trait.

Between family pressure, failed reinventions, and the city that never lets him forget who he used to be, Hamza is trying to hold it all together. He even has a job—or three, technically. The past is buried, feelings neatly archived. And regret? He doesn’t believe in it.

Until Yara Abbas shows up.

The day he walks into a driving school classroom and finds the one girl who’s never let him get a word in, he realises he’s in the kind of trouble that doesn’t come with a seatbelt. A love story delayed, derailed, then driven straight into traffic.

Told entirely from Hamza’s point of view and set in post-uni London, The Lion Tamer is the first volume in a duology spin-off from We Created You in Pairs. 

This novel is a modern romantic comedy about pride, proximity, grudge-fuelled tension, Muslim adulthood, and what happens when the girl who ghosted your ego walks back into your postcode.