The Mallore Affair — William McCloskey

AN MAGNIFICENT, HAUNTING NOVEL OF AN AMERICAN GIRL IN MODERN INDIA!

For Meg Nolan, it began almost like a fairy tale; a sudden journey with her diplomat husband on his first assignment abroad to India, exotic land of elephants and maharajahs. But almost from the very first day things started to go wrong. No content with being just another diplomat's idle wife, she tried to make friends with the Indian people. Everyone warned her, but she wouldn't listen to them. Slowly she found herself being drawn deeper and deeper into a strange, hypnotic world of cruelty and evil. Desperately she tried to pull back before it was too late, but she hadn't reckoned on the wicked malice of an American woman named Bess Soapes, who was determined to destroy her.