He’d wound up as an exercise horse because his stature was a few hands too short for the racetrack. Cantering around the riding ring at the Royal Western India Turf Club, never quite keeping up with her friend Alice, was vigorous exercise.Īlice Hobson-Jones was cantering on a large bay, Kumar, who had been born from racing stock. It was six-thirty in the morning and already eighty-two degrees. Perveen Mistry sighed, adjusting her hat on her sweating brow. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace’s deadly curse? A BookRiot’s Read or Dead Most Anticipated Mystery Novel of 2019. Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap. And she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince’s future, but knows she is breaking a rule by traveling alone as a woman into the remote countryside. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, India’s only female lawyer. The royal ladies are in dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer’s council is required-but the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men.
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