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Diese Serie entführt die Leser in das Indien der Zwischenkriegszeit und erzählt Geschichten von Freundschaft, Liebe und Loyalität, die in einer sich wandelnden Zeit auf die Probe gestellt werden. Verfolgen Sie die verschlungenen Leben von Personen, die sowohl die glitzernde Fassade der High Society als auch die harten Realitäten des Lebens auf dem Subkontinent meistern. Von opulenten Hotels bis zu abgelegenen Krankenhäusern erforschen diese Erzählungen komplexe Beziehungen und schwierige Entscheidungen vor dem Hintergrund historischen Umbruchs und persönlicher Dramen. Tauchen Sie ein in eine Welt voller Leidenschaft, Gefahr und beständiger menschlicher Verbundenheit.

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    The Emerald Affair

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    In this evocative tale of life in India between the wars, friendships will be tested and loyalties torn. But can love win the day? In Scotland in the aftermath of the First World War, nurse Esmie McBride meets handsome Captain Tom Lomax at her best friend Lydia’s home. Esmie is at first concerned for Tom’s shell shock, then captivated by his charm, but it’s effervescent Lydia he marries, and the pair begin a new adventure together in India. When marriage to Tom’s doctor friend Harold offers Esmie the chance to work in India, the two sets of newlyweds find themselves living wildly different lives on the subcontinent. Esmie, heartbroken but resolved, is nursing at a mission hospital on the North West Frontier. Lydia, meanwhile, is the glamorous mistress of the Raj Hotel, where Tom hopes his sociable new wife will dazzle international guests. As Esmie struggles with her true feelings for Tom and the daily dangers of her work, Lydia realises the Raj is not the centre of high society she had dreamed of. And when crisis strikes both couples, Esmie faces a shattering choice: should she stay the constant friend she’s always been, or risk everything and follow her heart?

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    The Sapphire Child

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    In the dying days of the Raj, can paths divided by time and circumstance ever find each other again? In 1930s Northern India, childhood friends Stella and Andrew have grown up together in the orbit of the majestic Raj Hotel. Spirited Stella has always had a soft spot for boisterous Andrew, though she dreams of meeting a soulmate from outside the close-knit community. But life is turned on its head when one scandal shatters their friendship and another sees her abandoned by the man she thought she loved. As the Second World War looms, Andrew joins the army to fight for freedom. Meanwhile in India, Stella, reeling from her terrible betrayal, also throws herself into the war effort, volunteering for the Women's Auxiliary Corps, resigned to living a lonelier life than the one she dreamed of as a child. When Andrew returns to the East on the eve of battle with Japan, the two former friends are reunited, though bitter experience has changed them. Can they rekindle what they once had or will war demand of their friendship the ultimate sacrifice?

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