Iron, when heated, becomes gold
(લોઢું તપી ને સોનું થાય).

Tapovan The Iron Volume I or III
TAPOVAN: THE IRON

VOLUME 1

Hiranmay Singh is nineteen. His parents are dead. His village is five seasons into a drought. And his four-year-old twin siblings are waiting for him at home.

He already has enough to worry about.

Then he finds a wounded young woman at the foot of a cliff.

It doesn’t occur to him, not even once, that he could simply walk away.

What he doesn’t know is that far beyond his village, men are searching for her.

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Set in sixteenth-century Gujarat, TAPOVAN: THE IRON is the first book in a sweeping trilogy of family and festivals, dangers and duties, bonds and betrayals, and above all, of two people whose paths cross at a moment when neither can afford to trust the other.

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Tapovan draws you into a world of village life, cultural traditions, political intrigue and human relationships against the tumultuous backdrop of a changing empire.

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TAPOVAN: THE IRON opens a trilogy spanning two decades of war, statecraft, and a love never spoken aloud. It is the story of what one craftsman will preserve when an empire comes to take it.