1970; The John Day Company publishers, New York; hardbound in yellow textured boards with black lettering on spine; very good condition with unmarked pages; no dust jacket.
 
Description -
News reaches Maharana Prince Jagat and his wife, Moti, that their only son, Jai, has been killed by the Chinese in a border skirmish. An inconsolable Moti sends Jagat out to bring the boy's spirit home. On the journey, the prince becomes involved with a beautiful and mysterious young American woman. Thus begins the fatal attraction between Eastern and Western ways, one bound by rigid custom, the other temptingly ripe with freethinking.
 
KIRKUS REVIEW
A karma-l coated story of reincarnation and love, and some unenterprising editor should have to pay some enterprising statistician for a word count on the incidence of moonlight, or marble. Be that as it may--it has to do with Jagat, a Maharana with not too much more than a title in the new India; the death of his only son in action (and the onward and upward search for him); and Jagat's passion for the lovely American girl, Brooke, to whom he confides ""I want complete union--with you."" . . . . Considering Mrs. Buck's continuing success, one hardly needs the book's affirmation of the life everlasting.