A Marriage of Marigolds

About the book

Anika Sisodia has spent her whole life being told to hide her sharpest gifts. When peace between her father's kingdom and the Mughal Empire is bought with her hand in marriage, she rides north expecting to become a hostage in silk. Instead she finds Jahandar Shah: a governor twice her age, feared by his own household, rumored to have poisoned the wife he never speaks of. Yet he tends his dead wife's rose garden with his own hands, reads Anika's secret poetry, and offers her a choice instead of a command. But a court physician hides poison in his medicine chest, her father plots rebellion behind the very marriage meant to end it, and someone is scheming to destroy her reputation. As marigolds bloom across a palace built on secrets, Anika must decide how far she will go for a husband she was never meant to love. A sweeping enemies-to-lovers historical romance of court intrigue, hidden grief, and hard-won love. Book 3 of An Evening Romance, a standalone read.