A Beggar at the Gate

Two years after arriving in India, Mariana Givens finds herself an outcast in her new homeland, scorned by the British because of her sham marriage to a Punjabi native and resented by her husband's people when she takes her infant stepson away from them, and must weave a difficult path amid a rising storm of political and civil strife, in the sequel to A Singular Hostage. Original. 25,000 first printing.