Publisher's Synopsis
Shanti Dhawan longs for the affections of another woman. But her traditional past won't set her free...until one day when fate intervenes. Shanti finds herself thrust into another world, stranded, alone, and at the mercy of a strange and mysterious hermit. This woman who at first Shanti can barely imagine passing for human nurses her back to health, and soon Shanti discovers she is more than she appears. She captivates Shanti's imagination and then stirs feelings she thought she could never hold for such a person. Yet the woman is a sealed fortress to her. As her time runs short, Shanti must decipher the secret of the stranger's past to claim her love. Otherwise, she may unwittingly become the instrument of her destruction.It takes grace to recover from the loss of a loved one. But sometimes that grace is not enough, and then survival becomes its own punishment. When the scars grow too thick for any light to be seen, only the power of true love can deliver salvation.
