Thalassa Ali
Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa AliÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s 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 sheÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s 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 SaboorÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½the 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 culturesÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½or the child sheÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s 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 sheÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½s driven ever closer to a secret so powerful that it will change her lifeÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½and the lives of those she lovesÃ¢ï¿½ï¿½forever.
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