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In the Age of Discovery, there were three identical crosses. Portugal’s King Manuel I had bestowed one on Vasco da Gama, who discovered the sea route to India. The second he had bestowed on Pedro Álvares Cabral, who discovered Brazil, and the third on Afonso de Albuquerque who established the Portuguese hegemony in the Indian Ocean. Over the centuries two of the crosses have disappeared. Probably they’re hidden away in some antique collectors’ vaults. The third hangs around James’s neck.
A clause put in by an ancestor during the Inquisition in Goa prevents Aeram, a practising Muslim, from inheriting Richard Albuquerque's estates. Only his Christian son, James, can claim the title even though he was born out of wedlock. When Aeram presents Richard's will in court, Daniel Albuquerque aka Danny (Richard's cousin) contests the claim. James and Aeram battle the demons of their past to take on Danny and the very powerful Archbishop Patrick to save their estates.
When Aeram and Saysha go to New York, they accidentally meet Igor Lebedinsky, a young intern at Aeram's agent's office. Saysha discovers that he's the son of Alexandre Lebedinsky, the mining tycoon from Moscow and brother of her deceased birth-mother.
Saysha realizes that James is not an ordinary stuntman. Even her very rich and powerful husband is scared of him. In the forests around the Albuquerque villa on the banks of the Mandovi river, James finally shows her why the property means much more than mere inheritance.
Eisha Sarkar
Eisha Sarkar is a podcaster, journalist, editor, designer and educator based in Vadodara, Gujarat. She has worked at Infinito Group in Australia, The Times Group in Mumbai, Pax Populi, The MS University of Baroda, UNICEF and National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad. Her non-fiction articles have been published in UNICEF's publications, India Guide Gujarat, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, Economic Times, Youth Incorporated, Femina, Filmfare, Bombay Times on subjects of travel, film, education and health. She has been a part of two writing programs, The Dangerous Women Project at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, USA. Her poetry has been published in EquiVerseSpace, an anthology and Throw Me A Word, an ebook. She has been running three successful Podcast channels – The Write Creed, TidyBytes with Reagan and Eisha which she produced and co-hosted with Reagan Gavin Rasquinha from Mumbai and Footloose By Shre and Eish, which she produced and co-hosted with Shreyasi Majumdar from New Zealand.
