"Get up. Go to work. Report on a few news stories. Here and there. Walk back home. Have dinner with grandparents. Sleep. Repeat. Laila’s everyday to-do list had nothing exciting happening. A simple girl, with a bad temper and boisterous but beautiful curls, Laila leads a simple life in Lahore, Pakistan. Until she lands in Udaipur, India, the neighboring but rival nation to do a feature. Royal tales, historic festivities, and a vibrant culture that confirms she’s far away from home, Laila meets many strangers on her journey. One of them being Gulab.

As the journey draws to an end, it becomes clear that Laila’s life intersects with Gulab’s in tragic and irreversible ways. Her life becomes an intersection of the realities of the blood-soaked partition, gut-wrenching atrocities, and a past she never knew she had."