Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for getrichquick schemes.Kate Lyle is a headstrong young woman desperate to escape a nightmarishhousehold. As... » 

Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for getrichquick schemes.Kate Lyle is a headstrong young woman desperate to escape a nightmarishhousehold. As midcentury India sheds its colonial skin and the shadow ofviolence rises these young lovers find themselves facing their own tryst withdestiny. In twentyfirstcentury London Owen Monroe is writing this story ofhis parents lives in an effort to avoid the problems in his own. But keepingpast and present apart isnt easy and before long Owen is deep in the onestory he never wanted to tell.... «