The Wife of the Village

<p><strong>The Wife of the Village</strong></p><p><strong>Devadasi Series</strong></p><p><strong>Book 3</strong></p><p>In flood-scarred <strong>Kalasharam</strong> the rains have long stopped-but their rot remains.<br>Once a <em>devadasi</em> a servant of the goddess and the men who claimed her in the goddess's name <strong>Satiamma</strong> has abandoned that life for a quiet existence on the village's edge. She works on government ditches lives off broken rice and dreams only one thing: that her daughter <strong>Parvathi</strong> will never be given to the temple as she was.</p><p>But freedom even in poverty comes with a price. The village still calls her a whore. The landlords and temple men still remember her body. When a stranger named <strong>Karama</strong> begins to follow her-with gentle eyes dangerous truths and a trident tattoo-Satiamma's fragile balance of defiance and survival begins to fracture.</p><p>As hunger violence and the ghosts of her past rise again Satiamma must decide whether to keep running or to stand her ground-to claim the dignity no god or man ever granted her.</p><p><em>In a land where every man claimed her Satiamma chose to belong only to herself.</em></p><p><strong>The Wife of the Village</strong> is a searing story of motherhood resistance and the quiet rebellions of women erased by devotion and poverty.</p>