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Loa Mali is a small island nation, and its ruler, Kash Kamdar, has spent his life being the one who decides. That changes when his mother invokes an old statute that compels him to wed. The woman chosen for him, Dayita Samar, is a precise, reserved scientist from a prominent local family, far removed from the glamorous companions Kash usually keeps. Yet from the instant the engagement is announced, he cannot stop picturing her. Day, for her part, is determined to serve her homeland, but she has her own private side. The two agree a marriage can exist without changing how they live, and certainly without love. A weekend in Dallas reveals more of her than Kash expected, and he begins to wonder whether she might ease the weight he has carried for years. Their path forward, however, is complicated by his past.