A young married couple from Los Angeles, Clare and Max, visit India. Max harbours a secret that could devastate his wife. He is bisexual and falls in love with Narayan, a Hindu physicist. Tammy, an Indian political economist, is set to marry according to tradition until he falls in love with Clare.

Clare and Tammy witness a bloody political assassination that leads to consequences personal, spiritual and political, changing lives forever. The assassins escape. Are Clare and Tammy at risk of becoming their next victims?

"A wonderful novel with a very swift narrative, reminiscent of a cross between EM Forster and Muriel Spark. It resonates spiritually." –Paul Theroux