In a land of exotic splendor, a young Englishwoman finds herself guardian of an orphan child believed by a dying maharajah to be endowed with magical gifts. It is a role that will take her on a perilous journeyinto a kingdom's walled city to protect a child she doesn't know from a culture she doesn't understand...
A Singular Hostage
The yearis 1838. Mariana Givens, a spirited young woman of twenty, has been sent to India to find a suitable husband. Traveling as a translator, she joins the entourage of Lord Auckland, the British Governor-General, as hejourneys across India with an army ten thousand strong to meet the fabled Ranjit Singh, Maharajah of the Punjab.