SUMMERY OF THE STORY
This novel is a pretty good read for all the young cricket lovers.
Almas is the poor daughter of a drug addict. After the death of her father, she
is introduced to a fashion designer Rania Azeem Haider who gives a little help
to Almas and her mother. In her early teens her step father once sell her in
gambling and her mother dies. Scared Almas runs away and on her way meets a
police officer Rameez who takes her to Rania's home and gives her his card.
Almas gets her matriculation done and she starts working with Rania at her
boutique. Rania's son Rayyan lives in Newcastle with his maternal cousins.
Rayyan once calls at his home in Pakistan to talk to his mother where Almas
attends the phone and then a telephonic relationship starts. On visiting
Pakistan he gifts her silver finger band but later he realizes that the dumb,
fat Almas isn't worthy of him. Rayyan is a football lover but once his fellow
foes make fun of him for knowing nothing about cricket. Rayyan and his cousins
approach an Australian cricketer Steve who helps him learn how to play cricket.
Later he gets in a racial fight with his cousins and he goes to Paris where he
starts painting. His foster sister Ania also his elder brother's fiancée tells
him that he should discover the national in him. Depressed Alma’s gets a lot of
her weight lost because of depression turns out to be a pretty Almas. She calls
Rameez and goes to meet him. Rameez is shocked and pretty impressed from this
changed and beautiful Almas who has now changed her name to 'Amal'. Rameez
introduces her to his aunt who is a fashion designer in Lahore. The sweet aunt
of Rameez treats her like a daughter. Amal takes admission in Lahore College
and continues her study. Rayyan shifts to Pakistan and starts practicing
cricket. Amal meets the chairman of PCB in a function and he invites her to
watch a match where she sees Rayyan Haider. Amal intends to take revenge on
him. She first intercedes for Rayyan and he gets selected but later tries to defame his status.
Rameez falls in love with Amal but seeing her disinterest marries his fiancée
Mariam. Rayyan sees Amal on every trip and gets a Deja Vu feeling. He starts
liking her. He comes to know that one of his cousins Marry Enne who was like a
sister to him is unhappy with her married life. He goes to see her first child
and names him "Gabriel''. Marry later dies of cancer. And Gabriel lives
with Rania's family. Rayyan is still on the peak of his career is now getting
married to Haria but on his wedding day some moments before his nikkah, he sees
Amal there. She gives him gestures to not marry. But Rayyan is helpless here.
After his nikkah he comes back to home and feels unwell. Later he falls from
the stairs badly and goes in a deep coma. In the nine months of his coma he
realizes that how much his family loves him. His wife Haria doesn't come to see
him even once and that makes him feel that only his professional status
fascinated her. He once in the coma hears his father-in-law saying that Haria
has to move on now. She cannot waste her life waiting for Rayyan's recovery.
And that some high officials of Cricket are taking advantage of his absence. He
recalls Amal (still unrecognized) and realizes that he loved her. Amal visits
him in his unconsciousness. She apologizes and tells him everything she has
done and before leaving, returns him the finger band. Rayyan regains his
consciousness. After his somewhat complete recovery he divorces Haria and takes
revenge on the people who betrayed him. After that he resigns from cricket
because of his health and settles in Lahore. Gabriel becomes his son and he
lives with him. Gabriel befriends Amal. Rayyan proposes her and the novel ends
happily.
This summary
is written by Meher Maah
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