Sami Ullah, an Indian executive, feels mysteriously drawn to the ruined mansion. But his move to Purfiza plunges him into a complex political mess outside his doors, and a bewitching romance within. A beautiful shape-shifting ghost claims him as her lost love. She lures him inexorably into a world of royal tyranny, colonial greed, ethnic strife, and deathless love unresolved for more than 150 years.