The Plague of the Heart

The title carries its meaning like a wound that refuses to close. In British India, on the edge of empire, Captain Nevile Terrington meets Rose Chantry and discovers that some infections no army can cure. He is a soldier bound by duty. She is a woman trapped by circumstance. Their connection ignites in the heat of political unrest, where every glance carries risk and every whispered word might as well be a gunshot. As nationalist fervor rises and the Empire's grip tightens, these two must choose between what their hearts demand and what honor demands of them. The plague of the heart is not romance in soft focus, it is the collision between desire and duty, between what the body wants and what the mind knows it cannot have. Prevost writes with sharp precision about the way love can feel like invasion, like surrender to an enemy within.