Tea and Spices - Tapa blanda

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Desire defies protocol in this torrid tale set at the dusk of English dominion in India. Revolt is seething in the loins of the colonial settlement at Uttar Pradesh, and the heart of memsahib Devora Hawthorne, wife of the local British diplomatic officer, harbors a carnal appetite.Awakened by her lustful young husband to passions that she cannot ignore and he cannot satisfy, Devora retreats increasingly from the formalities of her station among the British colonials who sip their tea with milk and complacency in the shade of their verandas. Instead, she seeks out the heat of a darker skin and the pleasures of a more exotic sensuality, ultimately surpassing every measure of her sexual expectations at the beck of the magnetic and inscrutable Rohan, the trusted Indian manservant who heads her own household. While dark, sultry Rohan educates Devora in the intricate social codes that govern the mean-spirited colonial community and in the political realities that threaten the stability of the world her husband upholds and represents, he also introduces his eager mistress to a way of loving that exceeds the English imagination. Scorchingly, insatiably, servant and memsahib, mentor and proselyte, man and woman, they explore a territory that neither class nor color can control.