Publisher's Synopsis
Sent to India to find a husband, Mariana Givens is facing the prospect of returning to England ignominiously single. But before her stay is over, she is to accompany the Governor-General's vast camp on its journey into the Punjab to meet its ageing, one-eyed Maharajah. Little does she realise, but Mariana is being pulled into the fate of a child. Eighteen-month-old Saboor, the son of one of the Maharajah's courtiers, is being held hostage by the old man. But the child is dying from neglect. According to Saboor's grandfather, a visionary mystic, the young woman from Sussex has been chosen to save him...
