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Authors: Zeenat Mahal
Tags: #romance, #love story, #india, #marriage of convenience, #aranged marriage, #india love story, #pakisyan
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ABOUT ZEENAL MAHAL
Zeenat Mahal (@zeemahal) is an avid reader and
has been writing for as long as she can remember. She has an MPhil
in English literature from Government College Lahore and recently
completed an MFA in creative writing from Kingston University,
London.
to learn. Her romances are a heady mix of the traditional and the
contemporary, old world values face the challenges of a shrinking
globe that impinge upon and help shape South Asian
sensibilities.
She can be contacted on her FB
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