The Long Road to Nalanda: 1 (Nalanda Trilogy)

Set in a mythical India at the start of the first millennium The Long Road to Nalanda is the story of a young outcaste Abhi who is offered as blood sacrifice to the giant snake God Jwala. Abhi a feisty young adolescent must discover how she can overcome the dark forces raging against her. Intent on revenge she travels through a collapsed empire where rival groups are competing for dominance. Abhi is befriended by a bunch of misfits but unable to make sense of her survival she resorts to a desperate act of vengeance. Will Abhis fateful action trigger the fall of a kingdom as foretold in the ancient prophecy? And who will Abhi become if she emerges from the ashes?