Promise is a young Malawian woman who dreams big. At the age of 23 she graduates from the university as a double major (Economics and Biology). She is unhappy with her career in the ministry of finance. She believes her world around her limited her choice of a career. She wants to be in fashion industry as a model, to travel the world and to live abroad, she will do anything to go for her dream. when one day her childhood friend Nkhwachi, who is in Milan, working under a modeling agency called sleek feet, calls her and invites her to go to Milan to try out the modeling career, Promise finally knows her dream journey has begun. Things turn sour when her personal identity starts getting lost, her travel documents are confiscated, her name is changed, she cannot access any phone and her first job is to pack cocaine in the plastic intestines and load into the belly of dead girls as well as in the skulls, she also travels the world transporting dead bodies in various capacities- from being a sister of the deceased to colleague and then close friend. Her world turns upside down when 3 weeks later she gets the news of her friend's death, she is all alone, she knows no one and she speaks no Italian, she cannot call anyone, she has no access to any form of communication. Promise realizes that she is trafficked into the world of drug dealing, sexual exploitation and murder. One thing for sure is she has to survive. Will Giovanni, the dark handsome Italian who is the son of the king drug lord, protect her from the death trap and protect her heart which he has stolen in the midst of her turmoil life?Tainted dream is a thrilling read if one enjoys multicultural romance, dark adventures and Surviving against the odds