Ira Sharma At twenty, Ira Sharma is bartered like a possession to erase her father's debts, sent into a world ruled by foreign boots and unforgiving hierarchies. Hardened by neglect and sharpened by silence, she carries her wounds like armor. She enters Captain Hayward's house with fire in her veins and a stubborn will to survive a place where a wrong step could cost everything. Captain John Hayward Captain John Hayward is the man villagers speak of in lowered voices the cold, illegitimate Bastard son of a British officer and an Indian woman, raised by discipline and scorn. Duty has carved him into something unyielding, a man who trusts neither affection nor mercy. When Ira is forced into his household, she becomes a threat to the order he clings to... and to the darkness he hides beneath his silence.
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