South Asian Arranged-Marriage Romance · Malani
The Malani Marriages
Three new arranged-marriage romances, available only in this collection. Three couples who said yes for good reasons, and found out afterwards what they had actually said yes to.
These are modern South Asian families in London and Sri Lanka: loving, watchful and entirely convinced they know best. The marriages are arranged. The wanting is not. And behind a closed door, nobody is being correct at all.
Somebody to Be Right At: She took his family's firm apart in an eleven-day arbitration, and won. Eighteen months later their aunts put the match to them, and they both said yes, knowing exactly who they were saying yes to. He is never going to concede the point.
Stop Being Careful: Four months married, the test comes up positive on a Tuesday morning, and her calm, courteous husband turns out to be frightened. Their first real argument happens in bed, at eleven at night, about whether he is allowed to stop.
Correct in Public: Married at noon on a headland above the sea at Galle, with the whole family in the house for the rest of the week. On the second afternoon, in the dead hour when the house sleeps, he asks whether she would like him to wait. She says no. Then comes six days of being flawless in public.
Three complete standalone novellas, over 140,000 words in all. Wholly South Asian couples, marriage before love, open door and explicit, with no family cast as the villain and a guaranteed happy ending every time.
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