In the tradition of Shobhan Bantwal's successful Indian Americannovels, Sonali Dev's debut captures the colorful spirit and fascinating detailsof Indian and Bollywood culture-including a lavish wedding-while delivering anemotionally layered and accessible story.Mili Rathod has been bound by marriage since she was fouryears old. But when her husband shows no sign of claiming her after twentyyears of waiting, Mili grabs the chance to leave India and come to America on ascholarship.Playboy filmmaker Samir Sam Rathod is Bollywood's favoritebad boy. He'll do anything for his big brother-even travel halfway across theglobe to take care of the wife who just crawled out of his brother's past.Yet Mili isn't the simple village girl Sam expected. She's a whirlwind whosucks him into her roommate's elaborate elopement and soon has him drowning inher onyx eyes. And though Mili fancies herself in love with his big brother,the husband she has never met, Sam is hoping for a very different ending.