Rebel Queen: A Novel
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781476716374 (1476716374)
ASIN: B00LD1RWWO
Publish date: 2015-03-03
Publisher: Touchstone
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Historical Romance,
19th Century,
India,
Asia,
Fiction,
Historical
"Rebel Queen recounts the story of Sita, a beautiful young woman from a remote village in nineteenth century India, who is granted a rare opportunity to serve in Queen Lakshmi's elite all-female army, the Durga Dal. Leaving behind her widowed father and young sister, Sita travels to the Kingdom of J...
Passion, treason, and bloodshed color the pages of this historical novel, as does duty, loyalty and devotion. Set in mid-19th Century India, at a time when the British had their fingers in a lot of pots around the world, and decided that it was going to commandeer this entire exotic Eastern jewel, k...
Also under the title “The Last Queen of India”Once more Ms. Moran has brought to life a moment in history and has transported us back in time when the British Empire was setting its sights on India in the mid-19th century. At the time India was not a country but a collection of kingdoms. This histor...