M. M Kaye

Dany Ashton is invited to vacation at her stepfather's house in Zanzibar, but even before her airplane takes off there is a stolen passport, a midnight intruder--and murder.

This sweeping epic set in 19th-century India begins in the foothills of the towering Himalayas and follows a young Indian-born orphan as he's raised in England and later returns to India where he falls in love with an Indian princess and struggles with cultural divides."The Far Pavilions "is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we hate to see come to an end. It is a passionate, triumphant story that excites us, fills us with joy, move us to tears,...

Twenty-year-old Amanda Derrington is on an extended cruise with her uncle when she decides to make a short side trip to the sunwashed island of Cyprus. But even before the ship arrives in port, there is a suspicious death. What Amanda had meant to be a pleasant excursion quickly takes a turn for the worse in this classic novel of suspense and romance by one of our most celebrated writers.

Beautiful Athena Hollis comes to Zanzibar determined to reform the dark continent, but, it is she who is reformed.

A haunting tale of the love of an English officer for an Indian princess, set against the splendor of Imperial India in the 19th century.