Mark of the Crow

Mark of the Crow: At 14 Shanti Prakash is suddenly orphaned when her family, part of her village’s reigning hierarchy, is brutally killed in a landslide before her eyes as she returns home from school. She is then sent far away from her village by ambitious relatives fearing that she might be in their way towards gaining power and influence over the villagers. Shanti must then live with an uncle she has never met and who is considered even more of a black sheep than she is. Six years later her village appears to be cursed with an influx of crows, due to the selfish and cruel acts of her relatives, and Shanti, being the last direct descendant of the village founder, may be the only one who can remove the village curse. That is if she can be persuaded by her childhood friend Kumar to come out of her enforced exile.
The other short stories include leaps of faith, crimes of passion and mystery and intrigue.