Summary

Shortly before the great Indian mutiny, young Winter de Ballesteros leaves England for India to marry Conway Barton, the Commissioner of Lunjore, whom she has not seen since childhood.

Shortly before the great Indian mutiny, young Winter de Ballesteros leaves England for India to marry Conway Barton, the Commissioner of Lunjore, whom she has not seen since childhood. Her escort is Barton's aide, Captain Alex Randall. The long tumultuous journey brings them through Calcutta to Delhi and finally to Lunjore in 1856-- on the eve of the Mutiny itself.