TITLE  -  Princess Mandira – destiny ‘s child

AUTHOR -  Madhurima  Jain

“She will marry someone from outside the Rajput clan”, Raj guru says in a soft tone.

Qotd  - After hearing this kind of prophecy for a girl child, what would happen in a conservative family? what do you think?

As the Rajguru predicts, commotion spread in the Raj family and other queens saw it as an opportunity to end the last memory of king ‘ s favourite wife. Raj guru saves the princess by another prediction that she will bring glory to her father ‘s kingdom and adopt her as his own daughter. She spends the initial years of her life in the ashram, learning all the things a princess needs to know including sex education unaware of her destiny and her real identity.

Destiny plays its role and when she is eighteen years old, she marries a British high-rank officer who is close to the heir of the throne. The story revolves around Princess Mandira and her journey to England and her initial settlement in this cold country. Her journey from the girl who has abanded by her own father to the girl who accepts her destiny for the benefit of the country without knowing what is in store for her future is amazing.

On the other end, officer marries her to take the revenge of his brother ‘s death and plans to alienate her from the rest of the world. After ignoring her presence for so many days when he accidentally lays his eyes on her for the first time, lust takes control over him and he kind of rapes her but get smitten by her charm, innocence, intelligence and tries to find out the truth of his brother ‘ death.

Read this to know why did his brother killed himself and how their relationship progress in the entire story. As there is another part of this novel so it would be interesting to know how the story progresses with another twist of the heir of throne falling in with her.

When the seed of mistrust is sown, it destructs many relations .and when the relationship is new, it needs the patience to understand another person and not every person is capable of doing so which leads to heartbreaks and sometimes many other destructive results takes place which you are gonna regret in the future. There are so many lessons that you can take from this novel.

Characters are well developed and the narration is really smooth. The plot is interesting and the language is easy . so, if you love reading historical fictions, this book is for you.