The Barefoot Bride

Zayna is done waiting for a happy ending.
She's ready to settle for a decent one.

When her younger brother marries before her, Zayna can't help but think about her own future. And her past.

Ten years ago, she made a promise never to see the boy she loved again. For ten years, she kept that promise.
Then fate starts teasing her, with memories folded into blankets that still smell like him.

She has spent her whole life living within the boundaries of what will people say, always doing the right thing. But "right" doesn't feel like enough anymore.

Searching for the something she can't quite name. On her wedding day, Zayna is unsure if she can go through with it.

Will she keep living to please everyone else? Or will she finally stop caring about what people say, and run towards her own happiness?

The Barefoot Bride is a story about a Bengali girl in Birmingham. About lost love. About second chances. And mostly about the courage to hope. About wanting something with your heart and your full self that maybe, just maybe, even the universe will conspire in helping you to attain it.