Julian: EXCUSE ME I'M STILL GETTING OVER THE FACT THAT YOU'RE NOT DEAD AND YOU SOMEHOW NEGLECTED TO INFORM ME OF THIS.Įmma: This is the part where you rescue me. You know, for failing to protect me from all physical harm whether it's caused by you or not. I must be deep and scarred and mysterious now.

Julian: Um, can't we just talk about this like regular people -Įmma: 'Fraid not. Oh, and I hate you for leaving me to die. Julian: Now stay in this secure location that has a reputation for being a fortress surrounded by people I trust!Įmma: THIS IS ALL JULIAN'S FAULT! HE ABANDONED ME! WOE IS ME! NOW I HAVE A VIOLENT PAST!Įmma: Yes, and I hate you now, for no reason, because this book isn't long enough as it is.Įmma: Also someone's trying to kill me. Julian: Hey, maybe we should stop being mean to all the Indian people we're training in modern warfare and giving guns to. and my person is also intact.Įvil Fiance: I don't care so much about that. The Rub: This especially sucks because he's the only one who seems to notice that unrest is brewing in the native population of India, unrest that inevitably boil over into violence.Įvil Fiance: Awesome - and your fortune is completely intact?Įmma: And. Raised by his Indian grandmother and eventually taken under the wing of his English duke grandfather, he is a child of two worlds - and trusted by neither. Not a lot of room left for personal problems.

The Rub: It's not enough that she has to survive a ship going down and killing her entire family - but she also has to survive an Indian uprising too. When she barely survives a shipwreck that killed her parents, she discovers that the proper life they had planned for her is no longer the one she wants.

The Duke of Shadows by Meredith Duran