Amina Mazid is twenty-four when she leaves Bangladesh for Rochester, New York, and for George Stillman, the husband who met and wooed her online. It"s a twenty-first-century romance that echoes ancient traditions - the arranged marriages of her home country. And though George falls for Amina because she is "straightforward" and doesn"t "play games", they will both hide a secret, and vital, part of their life from each other. Amina struggles to find her place in America - as a Muslim woman, an aspiring teacher, a wife with her own desires. But it is only when they put an ocean between them that Amina and George will discover whether they have a future - or if their secrets will tear them apart.