num_pages: 320
description: Set in nineteenth-century British India, Thalassa Aliâ��s dazzling debut, A Singular Hostage, introduced us to Mariana Givens, the Englishwoman who risked everything to save a young Indian orphan from certain death. Now Ali returns to that exotic kingdom beyond the northwestern frontier, where Mariana will come face-to-face with a different destiny.Two years have passed since Mariana left the walled city of Lahore. But sheâ��s unable to forget its haunting scent of roses or her ill-fated marriage to a native-born husband that has scandalized Calcutta society and made her an outcast among the English. Worse still, she bears the knowledge that she will be forced to give up Saboorâ��the boy believed to be endowed with magical gifts whose life she risked her own to save.Now Mariana must revisit Lahore to return Saboor to his family and request a divorce from Hassan Ali Khan. But how can she say good-bye to the enigmatic man whose love defied two culturesâ��or the child sheâ��s loved as her own? As political and civil strife threaten to erupt in violence, she seeks answers in a world no Englishwoman has ever seen. And sheâ��s driven ever closer to a secret so powerful that it will change her lifeâ��and the lives of those she lovesâ��forever.
language: English
title: A Beggar at the Gate
titlecomplete: A Beggar at the Gate (Mariana Givens)
characters: Mariana Givens
genres: Romance, Fiction, Asia, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, India, Own, Historical, British Literature
ratings_count: 478
places: Lahore
series: Mariana Givens
publisher: Bantam