About the book: 2014 / India. XIX century. For an Indian widow, there are only two options - either burn with her husband on a funeral pyre, or spend the rest of her life in an orphanage... Sona is not ready to come to terms with this. To be with her beloved Arun, she makes a daring escape from the orphanage - and Ratna follows her. Terrible trials await them - war, separation from loved ones, human cruelty... But happiness is worth fighting for..