num_pages: 310
description: A beguiling and sensual Victorian novel of theft and obsession from the author of the THE SOMNAMBULIST.Uprooted from her home in India Alice is raised by her aunt a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their lives Alice is drawn into a plot to steal the priceless Koh-i-Noor diamond claimed by the British Empire at the end of the Anglo-Sikh wars.Said to be both blessed and cursed the sacred Indian stone exerts its power over all who encounter it: a handsome deposed maharajah determined to claim his rightful throne a man hell-bent on discovering the secrets of eternity and a widowed queen who hopes the jewel can draw her husband's spirit back. In the midst of all this madness Alice must discover a way to regain control of her life and fate...
language: English
title: The Goddess and the Thief
publisher: Orion