arranged marriage

Alessandra Cecchi becomes enchanted with a young painter her father has brought back from nortern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo, but their relationship is interrupted when Alessandra's parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy older man.

A young high school girl, Chae-Kyung, is forced into a marriage to an evil prince in a Korea still ruled by monarchs.

Having just moved from India to Los Angeles for two years, sixteen-year-old Shalini struggles to fit in at school and to keep house for her clinically-depressed mother, but the real challenge comes when she begins falling in love with an American boy despite being engaged since the age of three. Includes glossary.

After her father's death, Lu Si-Yan's uncle sells her to a rich family who expect her to work as their servant until she is old enough to marry their son, but when she runs away things only get worse.

Despite the fact that their marriage was political, Prince Caesar has come to care for Princess Nakaba and, when Nakaba begins to warm up to Caesar as well, her attendant, Loki, is not happy about it. But, when a prince from a neighboring country discovers that Nakaba possesses the Arcana of Time, both Caesar and Loki find it difficult to keep her away from the man, someone who can tell her who she really is.

Prince Caesar finds himself falling for his wife Nakaba, who he only married for political reasons, while Nakaba remains distant and has a vision of Caesar being killed.

Princess Nakaba of Senan, in a political marriage to Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, feels she is being held hostage and relies on help from her attendant Loki to cope with the situation and come to terms with a mysterious new power.

Anju and Sudha, cousins in an upper-caste Calcutta family, grow up together, bonded by fate and heart, but their lives take opposite turns when they are urged into arranged marriages, until tragedy brings them back together again.

Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam. As a palace insider, she offers a glimpse of life under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle".

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.