In this novel author says about A romantic fiction, set in Pakistan at the time when marriages were arranged by a persons grandparents. Saiqa a twenty year old girl, orphaned at a very young age, lives with her grandmother, aunts and uncle in the Palace with the red domes. However, the palace is a hellhole for her as she is mistreated for her parents actions. The only person who cares for her is her caretaker; who is as ugly, as she is loving from inside, her aunt Anjum Ara who lives far away and visits a few times and her uncle Fakhr who doesn't shows her his love openly due to his wife.