The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill .
But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace\'s deadly curse?.
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.
The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill
