Rachel Chu is a 29-year-old from Northern California. She's an economics professor at NYU, and she's in a loving and increasingly committed relationship with her boyfriend, Nick Young, a history professor from Singapore. In New York they live the simple and happy life of a young couple with busy careers. It's only after Nick invites Rachel to spend the summer with him in Asia that she discovers her boyfriend is actually part of this outrageously wealthy, incredibly aristocratic, and private family, and that's when the problems and fireworks really begin. I want readers to relate to Nick and Rachel and really root for them as their lives get disrupted and their love gets tested by all the relatives and "friends" they meet once they arrive in Nick's hometown