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But as the “oops” baby of a free-spirited Bengali mother, Naomi’s lack of connection to her roots represents everything Gia Mukherjee disdains.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnter, Dev Mukherjee.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDev knows everything his mother wants…including her wish for him to get married, like, yesterday. When Gia hires a matchmaker (without, you know, asking him), Dev vows to do whatever it takes to avoid ending up in a cold, loveless marriage. When a potential match assumes Naomi is his girlfriend, the solution to both their problems becomes clear: Naomi will pretend to date Dev in order to sabotage his mother’s matchmaking efforts in exchange for lessons in Bengali culture. Flawless plan, right?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut as Naomi and Dev bond over awful dancing at Garba, couples cooking classes, and tackling the rebrand as a team, they start to realize while their relationship may be fake, their feelings for each other are starting to become very real. As the line between reality and rumor blurs, Naomi and Dev must confront what it means to fit the mold, and decide how much they’re willing to risk for love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eA first generation Bengali-Canadian, \u003cstrong\u003eAurora Palit\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in rural Alberta, where she was always the only South Asian student in her class. Her love of reading began at age four but it wasn’t until high school—when she wandered into the romance section of a bookstore—that she realized happily-ever-afters are her jam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eFlash forward (an undisclosed number of years) and Aurora is now writing those stories with her own unique brand of humor, perspective, and belief that people of colour deserve love stories too. 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She’s successful, competitive, and knows exactly what she wants: to be the heir to her father’s multimillion dollar business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcept, her father just chose his successor and it’s not her…it’s her one-night stand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRohit Patel can’t believe his luck. He’s just landed the opportunity of a lifetime, his future is once again on track, and the woman he just spent the night with could be the love of his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcept, she’s his new boss’s daughter and now she hates him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Kumar Constructions falls under scrutiny, both Cynthia and Rohit are determined to see its tarnished reputation restored to its original glory. As they each try to swoop in and save the day, their game of one-upmanship fails spectacularly, leaving them no choice but to set their differences aside and work together. But as their partnership to save the company—and their feelings for one another—blossoms, they’ll have to decide what’s more important…their careers or love?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eA first generation Bengali-Canadian, \u003cstrong\u003eAurora Palit\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in rural Alberta, where she was always the only South Asian student in her class. Her love of reading began at age four but it wasn’t until high school—when she wandered into the romance section of a bookstore—that she realized happily-ever-afters are her jam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eFlash forward (an undisclosed number of years) and Aurora is now writing those stories with her own unique brand of humor, perspective, and belief that people of colour deserve love stories too. 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