Queen of Fire

I will not yield. . .'Lakshmibai the widowed queen of Jhansi is determined to protect her son's right to his father's throne and safeguard the welfare of her kingdom. Faced with machinations to take over Jhansi at a time when all of India is rising up against the British she has to prove her valour and sagacity time and again. But will this be enough to save all that she values?In this gripping novel award-winning historical novelist Devika Rangachari brings to vivid life the interior life of this nineteenth-century queen thrust into a position she does not desire but must assume and of her son who is cowed by the challenges he has to face but determined to live up to his mother's courage. About the Author Dr Devika Rangachari is an award-winning children's writer whose bookQueen of Ice was on the White Raven list won the Neev Young Adult Book Award and has been optioned to be made into a movie/ television series. She is also a historian who has conducted post-doctoral research on gender in early medieval Indian history. Devika is inordinately fond of reading (especially historical fiction) chocolates potatoes and exploring bookshops and libraries. She would happily spend her time among her four loves were it not for her lovely-but-stern editors who occasionally compel her to write.