A Beggar at the Gate (Mariana Givens #2)

Thalassa Ali

Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
3.88 · 8 ratings · 416 pages · Published: 29 Jul 2008
A Beggar at the Gate by Thalassa Ali
Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa Ali�s dazzling debut, A Singular Hostage, introduced us to Mariana Givens, the Englishwoman who risked everything to save a young Indian orphan from certain death. Now Ali returns to that exotic kingdom beyond the northwestern frontier, where Mariana will come face-to-face with a different destiny.

Two years have passed since Mariana left the walled city of Lahore. But she�s unable to forget its haunting scent of roses or her ill-fated marriage to a native-born husband that has scandalized Calcutta society and made her an outcast among the English. Worse still, she bears the knowledge that she will be forced to give up Saboor�the boy believed to be endowed with magical gifts whose life she risked her own to save.

Now Mariana must revisit Lahore to return Saboor to his family and request a divorce from Hassan Ali Khan. But how can she say good-bye to the enigmatic man whose love defied two cultures�or the child she�s loved as her own? As political and civil strife threaten to erupt in violence, she seeks answers in a world no Englishwoman has ever seen. And she�s driven ever closer to a secret so powerful that it will change her life�and the lives of those she loves�forever.
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