Shadow of the Moon — M.M. Kaye

M.M. Kaye's breathtaking masterpiece returns us once again to the vast, intoxicating romance of India under the British Raj, a fabled land of moonlit palace gardens, filled with whisperings of passion and intrigue. It is the story of Winter, a beautiful English heiress come home to her beloved India, and of Captain Alex Randall, her protector, aching with need to possess her. Forged in the fires of a war that threatens to topple an empire, it is the story of a desperate, consuming, unforgettable love. There are only a few novels so haunting they echo through our dreams long after the last page is read. Such a novel is Shadow of the Moon, a story that will never end, as long as the heart remembers.

India, the vast, glittering, cruel, mysterious and sunbaked continent, is captured here in a spectacular romance by the author of The Far Pavillions.

When India bursts into flaming hatreds and bitter bloodshed during the dark days of the Mutiny, Captain Alex Randall and his superior's wife, the lovely raven-haired Winter de Ballesteros, are thrown unwillingly together in the struggle for survival.