As their mounting attraction blossoms into something more, Leila fights the inevitability of falling in love. After all, submitting to a husband will mean giving up her freedom, something she has vowed never to do.
However, as their mission puts them both in danger and pushes them closer together, Leila and Warren have no choice but to fight for their lives … as well as their love.
Although you grew up in luxury with all of the best that your American mother and Sufi father could offer, you had dreams of becoming a children's author and helping people all over the world who you met in your global travels. World War II changed your life, but also showed the world you were one of the bravest women who ever lived. You left your easy life behind to spy for the Resistance as a British secret agent, and became the first female radio operator who entered Nazi-occupied France.
Did the lessons of your life prepare you for the realities of war? Determined to marry for love, in she wed her cousin, Franz Salvator of Tuscany and bore him 10 children. The dashing Archduke was not faithful. His affair with Stephanie Richter, a young, middle-class Jewish woman with a knack for flattering powerful men, led to an illegitimate child, a royal title of her own and a career as a double-agent in the prelude to World War II.
Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe became vital to Adolf Hitler, betraying the German Jews, the British government, and her home country of Austria--until Hitler betrayed her, leaving her without allies or protectors. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves—Prince Albert and John Brown—Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee.
Their contribution, however, has been largely forgotten. Many soldiers were illiterate and travelled from remote villages in India to fight in the muddy trenches in France and Flanders. Many went on to win the highest bravery awards.
For King and another Country tells, for the first time, the personal stories of some of these Indians who went to the Western Front: from a grand turbanned Maharaja rearing to fight for Empire to a lowly sweeper who dies in a hospital in England, from a Pathan who wins the Victoria Cross to a young pilot barely out of school.
Shrabani Basu delves into archives in Britain and narratives buried in villages in India and Pakistan to recreate the War through the eyes of the Indians who fought it.
There are heroic tales of bravery as well as those of despair and desperation; there are accounts of the relationships that were forged between the Indians with their British officers and how curries reached the frontline.
Above all, it is the great story of how the War changed India and led, ultimately, to the call for independence.
Now, she has to navigate the politics of Alanza to solve a crime and win one of three places in the most challenging program of her life. For good. Can she solve the clues in time? But then an injured man is brought to Hagenheim Castle, claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook and left for dead. And only Margaretha—one of the few who speaks his language—understands the wild story.
Then Colin retrieves an heirloom she lost in a well, and asks her to spy on Claybrook as repayment. Though when Margaretha overhears Claybrook one day, she discovers her romantic notions may have been clouding her judgment about not only Colin but Claybrook as well. Hired by Princess Latifa to liberate her from Dubai, Jaubert never anticipated sabotage or that the escape could go so disastrously wrong. The Princess is on the run. His boat is under attack, and so too is his reputation, but he's survived much worse than this.
When he's inexplicably freed following allegations of kidnap, Jaubert suspects his position was leaked. And an insider mole tells him he was right. He has evidence that a power greater than the Emirati hit mob was behind the attack that ruined Princess Latifa's bid for freedom. The next move in a global cat-and-mouse game of political high-stakes is up to them. Fueled by revenge and an obsession to clear his name, Jaubert has only one mission: to destroy a growing conspiracy and bring those who attacked him and Latifa to justice.
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