Raj

Jaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer.

Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission, Jaya is ill-prepared to assume the role of Regent Maharani of Sirpur upon the death of her decadent, Westernised husband. But Jaya bravely fulfils her duty and soon finds herself thrust into the centre of a roiling political battle in which the future of the kingdom is at stake . . . and her own future as well.