I wanted the impossible, which made it that much easier to push out of my mind. I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones.

I didn’t want the prince from the folktales or some milk-skinned, honey-eyed youth who said his greetings and proclaimed his love in the same breath. What I wanted was a connection, a shared heartbeat that kept rhythm across oceans and worlds. Leave one gilded cage only to move to another one. Maya is to be a pawn, like her half-sisters in the battle between kingdoms. Maya lived an almost independent life at court until one day, when her father announced that she has to get married to prevent a war between neighboring rebel kingdoms. In the Kingdom of Bharata, horoscopes have the power to make or break opinions, and Maya’s horoscope predicted a grim outcome that left her ostracized by the entire court. Princess Mayavati or Maya is one of many daughters of the Raja(King) of Bharata. Although she is favored by her father, her life isn’t all hearts and roses. The story is set in the ancient kingdom of Bharata. Review: This is the story of Princess Mayavati and is told entirely from her point-of-view. Yet who, besides her husband, can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most…including herself. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Desire…īut Akaran has its own secrets-thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen?

The star touched queen book 3