In a supposedly perfect future world, bureaucrats determine which young adults will marry in a process called the Matching. Cassia is delighted when she is paired with her best friend Xander. Then a different, forbidden boy appears on Cassia's datacard.
A royal pain ... The illegitimate daughter of a prince and a notorious courtesan, Lucia has been confined to schools and convents for most of her life. But that hasn't stopped her from causing one scandal after another. Exasperated, her royal father decides that his exquisite he…
In a far future, two warring gangs, the Conors and the Volsons, rule the ruins of London. When the leader of the Volsons gives his daughter Signy in marriage to the leader of the Conor family, the stage is set for a tale of vengeance and tragedy. This postmodern retelling of the…
In the not-too-distant future, in a London wracked by war, famine, economic collapse, and chaos, two warring families vie for control, until a proposed agreement to cement an alliance results in the marriage of young Signy Volson to the rival Conor.
The time is the not-too-distant future. London is in ruins. A bombed-out shell. A picked-over carcass where the only rule of law is might makes right. What remains of the city is being fought over by two ruthless gangs of warlords. In an effort to create peace, however, a truce …
Nanzeen, married off to a man twice her age, moves from her Bangladeshi village to live with him in London in the 1980s and 1990s, where she raises a family, learns to love her husband, and comes to a realization that she has a voice in her own life.
Pawn in her father's maniacal quest for power, Princess Nae Corda doesn't see any way of escaping her impending marriage to the leader of the Oonkaen. That is until a dark shadow enters her prison-like bedroom--and offers her hope. King Tyan will do anything to save his kingdom …
Every young Indian leaving the homeland for the United States is given the following orders by their parents: Don't eat any cow (It's still sacred!), don't go out too much, save (and save, and save) your money, and most important, do not marry a foreigner. Priya Rao left India w…
This novel takes the reader to modern India during the height of the summer's mango season. Heat, passion, and controversy explode as a woman is forced to decide between romance and tradition.
To keep her fortune, heiress Lady Jocelyn Kendall impulsively weds a penniless officer dying of wounds received at Waterloo, but when the man recovers, she suddenly finds herself with a healthy, vibrant husband who wants to renegotiate the terms of their bargain--and possess her…
Languishing in the London home of her uncle, Chelsea Myles is offered an escape when she is asked to switch identities with a young woman on her way to an arranged marriage in Australia.