In the heyday of the British Ram, eleven-year-old Anahita, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess India, the privileged daughter of rich Indian royalty. Becoming the princess’s official companion, Anahita accompanies her friend to England just before the outbreak of the Great War. There, she meets the young Donald Ashbury - reluctant heir to the magnificent, remote, Ashbury Estate - and his scheming mother.
Eighty years later, Rebecca Bradley, a young American film star, has the world at her feet. But when her turbulent relationship with her equally famous boyfriend takes an unexpected turn, she’s relieved that her latest role, playing a 1920s debutante, will take her away from the glare of publicity to the wilds of Dartmoor in England. Shortly after filming begins at the now-crumbling Astbury Hall, Ari Malik, Anahita’s great-grandson, arrives unexpectedly, on a quest to uncover his family’s past. What he and Rebecca discover begins to unravel the dark secrets that haunt the Astbury dynasty………………
