Summary
A frost-bitten fable unspools beneath the cedar spires of British Columbia: an Oxford-educated aristocrat, smarting from a snub by London’s drawing-room elite, purchases a bride from a Sikh trading post—her eyes still carrying monsoon memories—then ships her across the Atlantic like an ornate, spiteful parcel. In the fog-softened manor of his ancestral enemy, this copper-skinned stranger, whose sari whispers of turmeric and cedar-smoke, becomes both weapon and wound. The groom’s estranged brother, a sinewy scholar of Blake and botany, teaches her to read the English rain as if it were Sanskrit verse; together they unpick the corset of Empire, thread by thread. When the vindictive husband finally returns, expecting to flaunt a tarnished trophy, he discovers that the woman he tried to weaponize has quietly become the blade—her newfound eloquence, her sly mastery of land-law, and the unborn child she carries (whose paternity hums with delicious ambiguity) have rewritten the script of power.
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In Canada, a young woman of Indian blood marries an Englishman who sends her back to England to humiliate his family and the woman who once spurned him. But the man's brother shows her the ways of English civilization, and a great surprise awaits her husband when he returns to his homeland.
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