Beyond Seas

Book excerpt: During summer camp, when a baseball comes bouncing at her from nowhere, Roshni Singh, a spunky teenager from Delhi, inexplicably ends up unleashing her unusually offensive side, little realizing that this trifling incident will shape her destiny. Mark Taylor, a student of the American International School, who has come rushing down from behind a boulder to fetch the ball, stands stunned at the foothills of the Himalayas, allowing her to bully him. Years later, Roshni finds herself at Yale Law School, face to face with Mark. Through their student years, they put aside their differences and place their relationship on a firm footing. Just then, however, fate deals them a cruel blow in the form of a severe blizzard that sweeps through the Northeastern US, leaving them to pick up the threads of their own livesthrough agony, bliss, despair and hope.