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. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur’s two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja’s widow. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. Instead of a straight-forward legal matter she finds a treacherous web of palace intrigue and a history of suspicious deaths. Award-winning author Sujata Massey returns readers to the 1920s India of Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s first female lawyer, and this time Perveen must travel north while reluctantly in the employment of the British Raj to assist in a complex dispute over a late maharaja’s estate.
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