Garnet, an American poet, travels to India on a grant to write about the Taj Mahal. But instead she enters the mysterious society of deposed Indian royals where crumbling palaces hold dark secrets, treachery abounds, and where during steamy love scenes she comes to know intimately the men and women who populate that ancient and sacred world, a world she will leave only at the cost of her soul.ABOUT THE AUTHORElaine Williams is a poet and travel journalist. The India Government of Tourism sent her to India several times to write about tourist sites. She did her own photography for the articles that appeared in magazines and newspapers including Travel-Holiday, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlantic Journal-Constitution, ASTA Travel News, Travel and Leisure and Conde Nast's Traveler. She is also the author of Memoirs of a Rebellious Princess, a nonfiction romance about the life of Princess Brinda Devi of Karpurthala (Hearts Diary, 2012).