arranged marriage

Princess Elizabeth of Graycliff and Prince Edward of Whitehill are bound to marry each other by the terms of a magical stone engraving, and if the couple does not marry by their sixteenth birthday, only six days away, they will be turned to stone. But when the couple first meet, they detest one another and must find a way to overcome their differences.

After her San Francisco home is bombed, Calcutta native Tara Chatterjee sets out to find her roots, tracing the story of her great-great-aunt, Tara Lata, who was married to a tree in her Indian village at age five.

Eighteen-year-old Muslim Halima, having moved to London to start college, is forced to make a choice between her family and faith and her newfound freedom after she learns that her father has arranged for her to marry a distant relative as repayment of a debt.