Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes: A Novel: 1 (Jana Bibi Adventures 1)

Meet Jana Bibi a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family. Janet Lairds life changed the day she inherited her grandfathers house in a faraway Indian hill station. Ignoring her sons arguments to come grow old in their family castle in Scotland she moves with her chatty parrot Mr. Ganguly and her loyal housekeeper Mary to Hamara Nagar where local merchants are philosophers the chief of police is a tyrant and a bagpipe-playing Gurkha keeps the wild monkeys at bay. Settling in Jana Bibi (as she comes to be known) meets her colorful local neighbors―Feroze Ali Khan of Royal Tailors who struggles with his business and family V.K. Ramachandran whose Treasure Emporium is bursting at the seams with objects of unknown provenance and Rambir editor of the local newspaper who burns the midnight oil at his printing press. When word gets out that the town is in danger of being drowned by a government dam Jana is enlisted to help put it on the map. Hoping to attract tourists with promises of good things to come she stacks her deck of cards readies her fine-feathered assistant―and Jana Bibis Excellent Fortunes is born.