Edgar von Rabov is a regular customer at Berlin's Eldorado bar, but this evening on a chilly night in February of 1926 is different. A strikingly attractive Anglo-Indian woman catches his attention. Edgar is captivated and her lingering glances betray an interest in him too. As she gets up to leave, she slips him a note: -Meet me here in two days' time. I'll be expecting you.- Soon Edgar, son of an aristocratic family and heir to his father's company, has fallen under the spell of the exotic young woman. But what appears to be a chance encounter soon turns out to be sophisticated plot to lure him into the heart of darkness of family secrets... Wolfram Fleischhauer's novel, a magnificent love story and family saga, tells of seduction, deception and conspiracy. Set amid the new-age movements of the early twentieth century and the political and philosophical turmoil of the Weimar Republic, this elegant and gripping story about religion, politics and self-knowledge takes the reader on a voyage of discovery from Berlin and London to Madras and Pondicherry.