The Peacock Fan — Katharine Gordon (1)

When Kassim Khan and his wife are killed, their adopted son Dil Bahadur is so devastated he wishes to leave India and return to his wife in England. Before he is able to act on his wish, Dil once more encounters Amara, the beautiful Begum of Jungdah, and feels himself falling for her dangerous charms. Despite Amara's fiercely protective and jealous husband, Ismail Mohammed, the Begum and Dil Bahadur are unable to resist the passion that flares between them, little knowing that their previous sins are about to come home to roost…