First published 2017
Dimple Shah has her future mapped out. She graduates high school and escapes to a summer web development program, far from her mother's endless matchmaking schemes. The last thing she expects is meeting Rishi Patel, the boy her parents secretly hope she'll marry. Rishi arrives at the same coding camp with completely different expectations. His parents told him his future wife would be there, and he's genuinely excited about the prospect. While Dimple rebels against tradition, Rishi embraces it wholeheartedly. He believes in arranged marriages and wants to be part of something larger than himself. Neither teen knows their parents have been plotting this connection for years. When Dimple and Rishi finally meet, their opposing views on love, family, and tradition create immediate friction. She sees him as everything she's trying to avoid. He sees her as the person he's meant to spend his life with. As they work together on coding projects throughout the summer, their initial assumptions about each other begin to shift in ways neither anticipated.
Genres: family, romance, contemporary, young-adult, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, intimate, thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water, found-family
Setting: India
Period: 21st-century
380 pages · Hardcover · Simon Pulse