To her mother's chagrin, English teacher Alys Binat refuses to marry. When she and her sister Jena meet wealthy Fahad Bingla and Valentine Darsee at a wedding, Darsee's disdain reaffirms Alys's commitment to spinsterhood. But as Jena and Bingla fall in love, Alys and Darsee are thrown together time and again. This contemporary novel's happy ending won't shock Pride and Prejudice devotees, but changing the setting from nineteenth-century England to twenty-first-century Pakistan presents a delightfully fresh spin on Jane Austen's timeless tale.