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Love and Empire - Volume 2
Paperback
Series: Love and Empire, Book 2
Publisher: Jalel Chniti
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Two women. Two lives. One folded sheet of paper between them.
She walked into the imperial court under her sister's name - and into a harem of women trained over generations to read what does not match. The first wife received her in cold courtesy. The senior ladies measured her in eight minutes. And in a country no map records, a sister she had not been allowed to keep continued, from her invisibility, to do the work of guarding her.
When a faction of the old opposition at Agra moved quietly against the new bride, the warning came from the sister who was no longer there.
VOLUME 2 OF THE LOVE AND EMPIRE TRILOGY
In Volume 2: The Trial, Jodha must survive a poisoning she cannot publicly name, a rivalry she cannot answer, and the long return of an emperor who is not yet the man she will need him to become. Across one Ramadan evening in his private chamber, with Hafiz read aloud in her imperfect Persian and two cups of water between them, an architecture begins to assemble itself - slowly, at a tempo neither of them has set.
The secret holds. The architecture holds. And the woman who walked into Agra under another woman's name is no longer, by the year's end, the woman the emperor was promised.
A LITERARY HISTORICAL ROMANCE GROUNDED IN THE MUGHAL RECORD
Why did the historical chronicles of Akbar's bride list two names - Harkha and Jodha? Love and Empire answers the question the archives could not settle. For readers of Indu Sundaresan's The Twentieth Wife and Alex Rutherford's Empire of the Moghul, the trilogy delivers a richly imagined Mughal-era epic of secret identity, harem politics, court intrigue, and earned love.
Volume 1: The Substitution is also available. Volume 3 is forthcoming.
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