Description The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. com..
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The first Perveen Mistry novel, The Widows of Malabar Hill, was an international bestseller and won the Agatha, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Awards.
She was a features reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun before becoming a full-time novelist.
Paul, Minnesota, and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace\'s deadly curse?About the Author Sujata Massey was born in England to parents from India and Germany, grew up in St.
Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap.
Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince\'s future, but she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas.
Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, Bombay\'s only female lawyer.
However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men.
The royal ladies are in a dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer\'s counsel is required.
The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur\'s two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law.
A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur\'s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident.
India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away.
Description The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill
