THE CURSE OF KALI: Historical Drama set in India
by Audrey Blankenhagen
Category: Fiction

Set in exotic mid-Nineteenth Century India, her diverse population ruled directly or indirectly by the powerful Honourable East India Company, THE CURSE OF KALI is a story of love, passion, intrigue and demonic possession. Beautiful Helen Forsythe marries into a family beset by a strange history. Her love for her handsome and charismatic husband, Sir Gavin French, is bedeviled by her suspicions of his liaison with an attractive Goanese woman and a growing presentiment that something evil is shadowing her family's life. The splendours and barbarity of the Indian scene; the social whirl of the British, living in the splendid isolation of the Raj; the opulence and intrigue of the Nawab's Court, to which her husband is appointed British Resident; and the machinations of a sinister Cult of Kali; are the rich tapestry against which the characters in this novel live their lives. Their often turbulent emotions are reflected in the simmering unrest of the Indian people, themselves; a discontent, which in 1857, erupts in the horrors of the Indian Mutiny. Torn by misunderstanding and despite their strong emotional chemistry, Helen and Gavin face many problems before, perhaps too late, they acknowledge their deep love for each other.