…’the dream was carried in the mouth of a great jungle cat.’
The Golden Leopard by Lynn Kerstan A tale of theft, assassins, romance and skullduggery; a sweeping narrative that takes us from India to England, and then from the London to the English moors. The story opens with Lord Hugo Duran being tortured in Alanabad, a small state in India. A statue, The Star of Firmament, The Heart of Alanabad has been stolen by an Englishman. Duran is English and a suspect. He manages to escape death, but at a price. A deadly, locked bracelet is placed on Duran’s wrist. If he doesn’t succeed in finding and returning the sacred object within a year, he will die. Duran and Lady Jessica Arville, a private antiques dealer, search for the Golden Leopard. Escorted by assassins they race against time to find the leopard, a potent symbol of people of Alanabad’s beliefs. Cultures, politics and greed clash. Duran and Jessie have a history, a history that inexplicably reopens, drawn as they are to each other against their cooler selves. Can they...