Touchstone
March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
Featuring: Queen Lakshmi; Sita
368 pages ISBN: 1476716358 EAN: 9781476716350 Kindle: B00LD1RWWO Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Cleopatraβs Daughter comes the breathtaking story of Queen LakshmiβIndiaβs Joan of Arcβwho against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to defend her beloved kingdom.
When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. India is fractured and divided into kingdoms, each independent and wary of one another, seemingly no match for the might of the English. But when they arrive in the Kingdom of Jhansi, the British army is met with a surprising challenge.
Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armiesβone male and one femaleβand rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. Although her soldiers may not appear at first to be formidable against superior British weaponry and training, Lakshmi refuses to back down from the empire determined to take away the land she loves.
Told from the unexpected perspective of SitaβQueen Lakshmiβs most favored companion and most trusted soldier in the all-female armyβRebel Queen shines a light on a time and place rarely explored in historical fiction. In the tradition of her bestselling novel, Nefertiti,and through her strong, independent heroines fighting to make their way in a male dominated world, Michelle Moran brings nineteenth-century India to rich, vibrant life.
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