Book description
For five hundred years, the great southern empire of Hastinapura has
flourished, ruling the world of Isavalta with an iron fist. But
nothing lasts forever . . .
The day of her womanhood ceremony
finds Princess Natharie of Sindhu happily celebrating with her family,
joyfully awaiting her marriage to a prince of another realm. However,
when the empire demands that her family send someone to court,
Natharie realizes that she is the only one who can satisfy the
empror's wishes.
As Natharie spends time in the Hastinapura
court, she learns of the empire's bloodthirsty worship of the Mothers
and of the intention of their high priest, Divakesh, to spread their
worship beyond the empire - including into neighboring Sindhu - at any
cost.
These plots threaten to pit Natharie's homeland against
Hastinapura in a disastrous war. Appalled by the power and brazenness
of the emperor's brother, Pirnce Samudra, she realizes as each day
brings war ever nearer, that the powerful prince may be her only hope
to prevent a war that could destroy them all.
