Salaam, With Love

Being crammed into a house in Queens with her cousins is not how Dua envisions her trip to New York City. But here she is, spending the holy month of Ramadan with extended family she hasn't seen in years. Dua struggles to find her place in the conservative household and to connect with her aloof engaged-to-be-married cousin, Mahnoor. And as if fasting the whole day wasn't tiring enough, she must battle her hormones whenever she sees Hassan, the cute drummer in a Muslim band who has a habit of showing up at her most awkward moments. After just a month, Dua is surprised to find that she's learning a lot more than she bargained for about her faith, relationships, her place in the world-and cute drummers…. Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror paperback original titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it. Series Overview: UNDERLINED, Delacorte's original trade paper program, is comprised of a mix of horror, romance, and thrillers-fast-paced, entertaining reads with commercial covers and easy-to-relate to plots, with word counts of 55,000-60,000 words. UNDERLINED is an offshoot of RHCB's UNDERLINED community, which covers all things reading, writing, and YA. We will use the community to promote the books and brand all the books with the Underlined logo.