Hayes, Rosemary

Eighteen-year-old Muslim Halima, having moved to London to start college, is forced to make a choice between her family and faith and her newfound freedom after she learns that her father has arranged for her to marry a distant relative as repayment of a debt.

The lives of two young people in England--Fatimah, a devout Muslim, and Steve, a white, nonreligious boy--are changed when a press photo taken of them after a terrorist attack makes it appear that they are a couple and that Fatimah saved him and let her Muslim friend die.

Tells the story of a cabin boy called Jan Pelgrom and a soldier involved in a notorious mutiny after the shipwreck of the Batavia off Western Australia in 1629.

Eighteen-year-old Muslim Halima, having moved to London to start college, is forced to make a choice between her family and faith and her newfound freedom after she learns that her father has arranged for her to marry a distant relative as repayment of a debt.