A Harlequin Junkie Recommends Pick!

A Booklist Series Romance “No Library Should Miss” Pick!  

“[This] is the first book in Sophia Singh Sasson’s Nights at the Mahal series, and I just fell in love with her world. There is deep research and there is innate knowledge, and Sasson skillfully blends the two in her memorable worldbuilding.” —Frolic

“Marriage by Arrangement by Sophia Singh Sasson is an emotional contemporary romance…[she] thoughtfully tells the story of Rani and Arjun overcoming obstacles to ultimately fall in love. Indian culture is celebrated as well as examined under a modern lens. There are side characters aplenty, many of whom will hopefully receive stories of their own!” —Fresh Fiction

“Much of the tension in this book comes not only from Rani and Arjun dealing with their own differences, but also with the various ways in which they have to manage each other’s family expectations. This book not only addresses differences between American and Indian cultures, but also the class differences between each of the main character’s families.”—All about romance

Sasson takes great care to show the reader the difference between Rani’s family’s middle-class Indian values and Arjun’s family’s khandani parampara — the dynastic, wealthy, upper cast Indian values. And Rani is caught among these two value systems and her own American upbringing as an, what Arjun calls, ABCD (American-born confused desi).—Frolic