A divorced South African Muslim woman navigates her parents' matchmaking attempts while seeking her own independence and romantic connection.
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Fatima discovers her arranged marriage prospect is the same man she secretly submitted to at the park, and he has plans to continue their dominant encounters away from her parents' watchful eyes.
A plain-spoken widower father welcomes Lady Rochester and her daughter to his estate, where a proposed marriage match with his son takes an unexpected turn.
A young Oxford student in 19th-century England pursues the slender female lover of the brutish Lucinda, whom his father intends for him to wed.
A returning captain wins a lord's estate and his daughter's honor in a poker game, then arrives to claim his bride.