An epic journey from the sultry climes of nineteenth-century India to the cosmopolitan chaos of a New York City on the eve of Civil War in search of a kidnapped daughter and a lost, forbidden love.
India:, 1857: Anna Wheeler Roundtree, missionary wife, flees her husband's pious tyranny. Her timing is bad: the train carrying her to freedom steams into the midst of the brutal Indian Rebellion. Plucked from danger by Ashok Montgomery, a wealthy Anglo-Indian tea-planter, she escapes the angry mobs. In the shelter of an isolated mountain cave, Anna, for the first time learns the true nature of love.
New York City, 1860: Now a successful poet, Anna Wheeler learns that the daughter she bore upon her return from India was not stillborn, as reported, but has been kidnapped. When Anna hears the child described as "dark-skinned," she knows that Ashok, the man she'd left behind in the tumult of the insurrection, is the true father, not blond, fair-skinned Josiah. In her own racially inflamed nation, Anna throws respectability to the winds, learns to take risks, break rules, and trust strangers in a determined search for the little girl.
Then a deranged voice arises from her tormented past, making demands that compel her back to India. Anna must confront the evil that set her running in the first place. Will her daring quest for her child, and for the love of her life, end in triumph or in heartbreak?
Genre: Historical
India:, 1857: Anna Wheeler Roundtree, missionary wife, flees her husband's pious tyranny. Her timing is bad: the train carrying her to freedom steams into the midst of the brutal Indian Rebellion. Plucked from danger by Ashok Montgomery, a wealthy Anglo-Indian tea-planter, she escapes the angry mobs. In the shelter of an isolated mountain cave, Anna, for the first time learns the true nature of love.
New York City, 1860: Now a successful poet, Anna Wheeler learns that the daughter she bore upon her return from India was not stillborn, as reported, but has been kidnapped. When Anna hears the child described as "dark-skinned," she knows that Ashok, the man she'd left behind in the tumult of the insurrection, is the true father, not blond, fair-skinned Josiah. In her own racially inflamed nation, Anna throws respectability to the winds, learns to take risks, break rules, and trust strangers in a determined search for the little girl.
Then a deranged voice arises from her tormented past, making demands that compel her back to India. Anna must confront the evil that set her running in the first place. Will her daring quest for her child, and for the love of her life, end in triumph or in heartbreak?
Genre: Historical
Praise for this book
"A compelling historical set between 19th century New York and an India in rebellion. Woven into a woman's dark quest are shinning threads of material longing and forbidden love." - Beverle Graves Myers
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