The Red Sea Promise: An Unfinished Voyage
Hardcover
RomanceGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Jun 9 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A vow written in the stars. A voyage interrupted by the sea. A love that waitedthree centuries still to be continued.
Kozhikode, 1678. In the Emerald Serpent of the Malabar Coast, where the scentof cardamom masks the rot of colonial power, two souls find a dangerous symmetry.Raghava, a brilliant Brahmin scholar-merchant, is more at home with ancient palm-leaf manuscripts and the occult science of the stars than the chaos of the market.Lalitha, a defiant Nair widow with a sharp intellect and a sharper wit, manages herfamily's herb trade with the precision of a seasoned bureaucrat.Their attraction is immediate-an invisible thread pulling across a heap of sun-dried ginger. But in the rigid world of the Zamorin's rule, they are the ultimate star-crossed lovers.
As Raghava initiates Lalitha into the forbidden mysteries of Gūḍha-śāstram (thehidden sciences), they forge a bond that transcends social caste and physical law.But when a treacherous betrayal leads to a tragic maritime disaster at the SuheliReef, their Unfinished Voyage is swallowed by the Arabian Sea.Chennai, 2016. Centuries later, the Humming returns.Through a copper stylus and a jagged ring fragment, the past begins to bleed intothe present. The debt of 1678 must be settled. The romance that began in a 17th-century spice market is about to reach its final shore.
If you love stories of eternal love, reincarnation, andthe maritime secrets of Ancient India, this voyage is for you.
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