arranged marriage

The author describes how she decided to return to her native India in order to find a husband.

Eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, and must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.

Story of a devout Hassid and his family, including three daughters who are becoming worried that there father will never find matches for them even though the age for marriage is already passing by them.

Sisters Junan and Yinan form a pact after their mother's suicide never to be apart, which endures until Junan enters into a marriage of convenience with a soldier who puts even more distance between the young women when he has an affair with Yinan.

To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.

While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.

While fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes endeavors to save her friend Lady Cecily Alistair from an unwelcome arranged marriage, she meets with some assistance from her older brother, Sherlock, and interference by the eldest, Mycroft.

Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.

Finnula, desperate for money for her sister's dowry, comes up with a plan to kidnap Hugo Fitzstephen, Earl of Stephensgate, who is traveling back to England from the Crusades, and hold him for ransom, but the plot goes awry when Finnula falls in love with her hostage and learns he has been lying about his identity.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, accustomed to the life of wealth and privilege provided by her aristocratic parents in Paris in 1776, begins to think for herself when she is introduced to American revolutionary Ben Franklin and stikes up a forbidden friendship with Michel.