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Gordon was born on 1916 in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, but she grew up in India.
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Unbeknownst to Zeena, the words of the elderly fortune-teller will prove truer than even her loyal maidservant, Chunia, could have predicted. Betrothed against her will to a much older man, Zeena's love for the English officer who she first met out riding will have to surmount many obstacles before she can discover happiness.
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('A unique blend of romance and reality and so saturated w...)
'A unique blend of romance and reality and so saturated with atmosphere... the writing is beautiful.' - NORA LOFTS ON THE PEACOCK SERIES. When his adopted father and mother are killed in an earthquake, Dil Bahadur can only think of leaving India and joining his wife and young daughter in England. Before he is able to act, Dil once more encounters Amara, the beautiful Begum of Jungdah, and feels himself falling for her dangerous charms. The Begum and Dil Bahadur are unable to resist the passion that flares between them, little knowing that their previous sins are about to come home to roost... Katherine Gordon was established as an instant literary sucess with her first novel, 'The Emerald Peacock', which won her the Romantic Novelists' Award for Special Merit.
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Gordon was born on 1916 in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom, but she grew up in India.
Before writing, she worked as Secretary to East. A. Army Wardens in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1950 to 1951. As Immigration Officer at the Immigration Department in Nairobi from 1954 to 1957. And as Consular Clerk at British Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, from 1964 to 1969.
( Unbeknownst to Zeena, the words of the elderly fortune-...)
('A unique blend of romance and reality and so saturated w...)