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- Orion
- Orion
Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction
A forbidden love. A vow of revenge. And an empire on the brink of war.
Set at the end of the nineteenth century, this sweeping, epic love story traces the doomed relationship of two young people against the backdrop of a British Empire bracing itself against political opposition.
As a boy, Frank had to leave his beloved India when his mother was assaulted by a British officer and accidentally shot when Frank tried to intervene. After his father dies of shame and a broken heart, Frank must make his way to England, sustained only by the determination to revenge himself on the man responsible for destroying his family as soon as he's old enough to become a soldier himself.
Grace is the privileged daughter of an industrial magnate, but following her heart and her head makes her a champion of those oppressed by masters of the empire like her father, and so she too finds she has lost her family.
As the pair fall in love, there is only one thing standing in the way of true happiness - Frank's vow of revenge.
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