The Dangerous Goddess
Hughes, Rose
"You're not like other women my dangerous goddess. You're too beautiful. Men will you, kill for you.."

Bound for India to join her solider fiance, Miranda Coulson lightly dimisses this description by a fellow passenger on arrival in Bombay she is met, not by her fiance who has been drafted to the North-West Frontier, but by the sardonic Captain Adam Redmont, who brusquey tells her to take the next ship home. Exotic India in 1897 fascinates Miranda and a chance meeting with Prince Salim of Rhajipur intrigues her furhter. But ruthlessly the arrogant Prince abducts her to his Palace of the Golden Tiger where Miranda is forced to recall the fatal words ... a dangerous goddess...