It is 1871, fourteen years after the Indian Sepoy Mutiny. Olivia O’Rourke and Jai Raventhorne, survivors of scandal, who had married and had two children, are no longer together. Jai vanished during the Mutiny, believed to have been executed by the British for masterminding the notorious Bibighar massacre. But Olivia, who has refused to accept that Jai could be guilty of such a heinous crime, is obsessed with proving his innocence. Amos and ...
Calcutta, 1848. Twenty-two-year-old Olivia O’Rourke comes to spend a year with her aunt, Lady Bridget Templewood, who would like to see her married off to a suitable Englishman. But Olivia feels stifled by the restrictive society of wealthy English colonials, and yearns for the challenges and freedoms of America, her homeland. Enter Jai Raventhorne. Brooding, intriguing, volatile, forbidden. The son of an unknown Englishman and an Indian servant girl, he, like ...