Seeking the Taj

In seeking the Taj, Elaine Williams evokes spirited young women's immersion into the mysterious Society of deposey Indian Royals where crumbling palaces hold dark secrets and treasury abounds. set in 1969 when hippiey, soul  seekers And The Beatles swarmed into India.Garnet a young poet with painful past is travelling in India to write about the empress who inspired the Taj Mahal. Burdened on the trip by the brilliant, half-mad niles, at the Taj Mahal she encounters Ravi singh an exuberant, charismatic Prince descendant from a dynasty of eccentric royals. Ravi pursues her and although she is deeply drawn to the prince.the near tragic assault she indured as an adoloscent left her fearful of romantic entanglements. But in Agra she is this befrii by Ravi's Royal aunties a wise and worldly woman who seized her freedom in a repressive society and has much to teach garnet.