Goddess of Fire

This story of a young widow who becomes one of the most powerful women in India “will transport you across centuries and continents” (The Seattle Times).
 
India, 1684. Moorti—widowed at seventeen and about to be burned on her husband’s funeral pyre—is saved from the fire by a mysterious Englishman. Taken to safety and given employment by her savior, Job Charnock, Moorti is renamed Maria and must ...