Aleem's Novels

A Matching Beginning

Complete11 chapters

He fell in love with her at first sight on Hari Raya afternoon, when a Korean woman in a green kebaya was asked to stand beside him in matching gold-threaded clothes—and years later, at their wedding reception, they would tell everyone that love had begun with a photograph they were never meant to take.

Genre
contemporary romancecross-cultural romancefamily drama
Tone
tenderromantichopeful
Setting
Malaysiafamily gatheringwedding

Chapters

  1. Chapter 1The Green and Gold Afternoon
  2. Chapter 2Before She Left
  3. Chapter 3The Number in His Phone
  4. Chapter 4Tuesday in His City
  5. Chapter 5After the Gate Closed
  6. Chapter 6Her City in Winter
  7. Chapter 7What Distance Touches
  8. Chapter 8The Courage to Choose
  9. Chapter 9The Year It Matched Again
  10. Chapter 10A Matching Beginning
  11. EpilogueStill Matching

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Concept art, alternate covers, and visual moments from A Matching Beginning.

An unused cover concept where it shows a slightly more intimate scene

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