Perpetua Cabral, a Portuguese-Indian living in Queenstown, New Zealand has always found herself being pulled by emotions she doesn't quite understand. What starts off as a compulsion to delve into her family's past and look for answers emerges as an urgent need to transform her own jejune life as she finds herself being catapulted into a world of intrigue, passion, and murder.

They Whisper in My Blood is a saga of two families, one Indian and one Portuguese, thrown together by colonialism. Though severed by the cruelty of disparate cultures they are ultimately united by the power of love.

This is, therefore, a love story - a sweeping panorama that screams across time and continents.

Fans of authors like Arundhati Roy, Delia Owens, and Richard Powers will love this multi-generational tale. Nature's spontaneous beauty is reverenced in sentences that weave lush imagery, so evocative one can almost smell the spice. The characters, visceral, impassioned, and deeply flawed, are bound to stay with you long after the last page is turned.

Foreword contributed by Amitabh Bachchan