HOW CAN HAPPINESS SURVIVE WHEN DUTY CLASHES WITH DESIRE?
Sheetal Prasad has it all: youth, beauty, wealth, and education. But when this modern Indian woman surrenders love for honor and marries into India's most glamorous "royal family," those very advantages turn against her. Meet the Dhanrajs — a powerful family bound together by a web of lies where infidelity, greed, secrets, and hidden identities lurk beneath the lush tapestry. The Dhanrajs will do whatever is necessary to mask the truth from the world. As Sheetal peels back the layers of deceit in the glittering world of Indian mega-wealth — and struggles to control her own fate — she is threatened by the rage she harbors and the blazes of passion she ignites.
"Duty and Desire draws the reader into a culture of fascinating contradictions. A moving story of a girl's transition to womanhood while forced to choose between family and self." — Shobhan Bantwal, award-winning author of The Dowry Bride.
"Duty and Desire immerses us in the larger-than-life, decadent world of modern India's ultra-wealthy families — a place sizzling with secrets and lies, love and betrayal. An intriguing, compulsive read." — Anjali Banerjee, author of Haunting Jasmine and Invisible Lives.
