A telegram cost money. Every word was a choice. Meera chose hers carefully, year after year — and never once told her son the truth.
Bombay, 1890s. At fourteen, Ravi runs from the only home he's known, chasing the ghost of a father he's never met.
He rises fast and dangerously — fortunes built and lost in a single night, a mentor who becomes the father he never had, a world of glittering excess that both seduces and nearly destroys him. Half-caste, half-remembered, half-forgotten, he fights for a place in a world that was never built to hold him.
And then Maya — the one thing he never went looking for, and the one thing he can't survive losing.
But some secrets don't stay buried. Meera has kept hers since before Ravi was born, carried through years of letters and telegrams — and when it finally surfaces, it will change everything Ravi thought he knew about who he is, and where he came from.
A spicy historical romance set in 1890s British India — where impossible love is kept alive by telegrams, and a secret older than Ravi himself refuses to stay buried.
Contains love scenes. Suitable for readers 18+.
