While playing tourist in the city, Mira chances upon a lost ring, and her social media post to locate its owner goes viral. With everyone trying to claim the ring, only one person seems to want to find its owner as badly as Mira journalist Krish Hale. Brooding and arrogant, he will do anything to get to write this story.
As Krish and Mira reluctantly join forces and jump into the adventure of tracing the ring back to where it belongs, Mira begins to wonder if she is in the right place in her own life. She had to have found this ring for a reason…right? Maybe, like the owner of the lost ring, her happy ending hasn’t been written yet either.
Comment: This is the second book by the author I try. I did enjoy another title years ago and had intention of reading more things, but some titles were not as appealing to me and time went by... this book, though, this time, did grab my attention.
Mira is a young woman, whose Indian born parents sacrificed a lot for a better life in America. However, despite the fact Mira has been as a perfect child as all parents dream of, her twin brother Rumi was expelled from home due to his homosexuality. Mira has tried to compensate and that also includes agreeing on a marriage with Druv, a man her parents approve of and whose family accepts Mira too. Everything changes when Mira goes alone to a New York trip, although her fiance should have gone as well, and then Mira finds a lost ring on the street. She decides to post the finding and the video becomes viral, meaning strangers start contacting her about it. With the help of her brother, whim she of course is in contact with despite her parents' opinion, she meets Krish, a reporter who claims he can find the ring's owner in exchange of writing the story. Mira is reluctant at first but investigating with Krish will open up a new world to her...
The other story I had read by the author was a more classic romance, with evident tropes and path. This one did seem to include a lot ore layers, which is one of the reasons why I decided to try it in the first place. I was also quite eager to see how the author would develop the "being gay in a culture which does not accept homosexuality" element and if the family would unite again.
Mira is a modern hardworking young woman who still wants to please her more traditional parents even if that includes a fancy wedding she isn't really dedicated to. She loves her fiance Druv but it is true his work as surgeon takes up a lot of his time, including the days they were supposed to go on a journey together to New York. Mira goes alone and of course uses the opportunity to visit her brother, estranged from their parents. This did allow me to grasp some layers. both in regards to the plot and to Indian culture, which is way more complex than movies or stereotypes seem to suggest.
While in New York, Mira is confronted with a lot more than seems obvious, mostly in the figure of Krish, a man with obvious Indian origins but who seems to know little about their roots and traditions. At the same time, she finds the ring a huge part of the plot starts to be centered on that, as if Mira has to complete the task of finding who is the owner before she moves on to whatever new goal she has. At fist I wasn't really interested on this element and I wanted to go back to Mira's life and why, despite she and Druv not being meant to be - this is obvious from the start - they were still going ahead with their promise to one another.
Of course, things aren't as easy and there's more to the ring story than it seemed at first. The more they investigate, the more Mira and Krish learn about each other and what everything in both their pasts meant to take them to this moment. They also travel to India, separately, but end up meeting there while Mira's mother and mother -in-law to be help her with wedding things. While all this is ongoing, we have scenes in which many things are explained and given a context and some things are quite fascinating to know, both the good ones and the less positive. I think the story is engaging and intriguing where it's meant to be, but it is also true not all situations were done with the same "finesse".
Since this is a romance, the very end cannot be as surprising as it is, and it's also true that some things related to the ring are a bit too convenient...but, nevertheless, there are very fascinating situations among the more cliched ones. Mira seems very obedient but she does learn about boundaries and accepting other things, including the fact her parents are responsible for their opinions, and that is not a reflection on her own personality. I liked the journey Mira went on, both physical and mentally.
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