India Gray

<p>Travel to the Indian subcontinent with a new collection of Sujata Massey's suspenseful historical fiction. This boxed set includes four works described below: <br /><br />OUTNUMBERED AT OXFORD. When Perveen Mistry leaves Bombay to study law at St. Hilda's College in 1919 Oxford England she hopes to escape her troubled past and become a pioneering woman lawyer. Then an elderly don tasks her with locating an Indian servant who may have stolen an invaluable mathematics proof. Perveen is caught in a case that threatens her ladylike reputation--and her life. <br /><br />THE AYAH'S TALE. Menakshi Dutt a teenaged nanny in 1920s Bengal is a beloved caregiver of three lonely British children but suffers from the cruelty of their bored mother. Will Menakshi ever fulfill her own dreams without betraying the children? <br /><br />INDIA GRAY. Kamala Lewes a recently-married Bengali woman travels to Assam during World War II to volunteer at a military hospital. There she discovers some patients with ties to the Indian independence movement. How far can she go to help them without betraying her British husband and the Allies? <br /><br />BITTER TEA. Shazia is fifteen and trapped in a remote village in Pakistan overtaken by religious fundamentalists. Her school has been closed and women have lost freedom of movement. But when Shania learns a friend faces danger from the invaders she decides to act. <br /><br />Four unforgettable heroines in one book rich with history culture and intrigue. </p>