“Book Descriptions: There was an illusion of timelessness in the fabled and exotic capital of Oudh. The tonga carrying the beautiful nautch girl Samaira passed through the narrow lanes of Lucknow, heading to Haseina Begum's kotha.
Charles Hamilton, the young, dashing military officer, bid a teary goodbye to his family in Scotland and boarded a ship to India to join the British East India Company.
They never knew their lives would get entangled in a whirlwind tale of love and hate, brotherhood and enmity, valour and cowardice, witnessing men in their most humane and beastly forms.
The war cry had sounded. And a full bloodied battle it would be.
A historical romance set against the backdrop of the Revolt of 1857. the start of India's long struggle for Independence and the fall of the Empire on which the sun never sets.” DRIVE