The Song of India — Mozelle Richardson

"There was no part of this journey that paralleled in any way the years I'd spent in India. How young I had been! Then I'd skimmed across the top of a society, mouthing slick-sounding phrases -- India, indestructible India. As full of time as time itself. Relentlessly feeding upon itself. One thousand years the same, yet constantly changing. Ten million live renewing themselves in a philosophy so ancient that Plato was a believer. Fly specks on the turning wheel. I had acquired a superficial knowledge in shallow fields, believing I was studying the culture of a people. I couldn't have been more wrong. I had been in a land of violent contrasts, but those contrasts failed to touch me. Now the contrasts had not only touched me. They wanted to destroy me. Me and Elizabeth.

Princess, or Prisoner?

Whispers about ancient ritual sacrifices . . . a curse on an age-old family . . . and a woman awaiting execution for the murder of her husband . . . overshadow Bevan Blakley's journey through India to visit her friend Elizabeth Dameron, who has just married a maharaja.

But upon her arrival at the splendid palace, Bevan learns that it is Elizabeth whom the whispers are about; and that by aiding her, Bevan is placing her own lie in a web of terror!