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About this audiobook
London, 1898. James Harrington has a title waiting for him, a fortune secured, and a young family. When he takes an engineering post on the ambitious Kalka–Simla Railway, he trades all of it for the Himalayas and a tunnel that refuses to meet in the middle. Between a mystic who reads mountains like scripture, a mountain that claims lives as fast as it yields to them, and a household of strangers who slowly become family, James discovers that empire's cold arithmetic asks more of a man than any ledger ever could.
Margaret follows him and finds something in India that unmakes her quietly and completely. What she is willing to leave behind to become the woman she was always meant to be is the real heart of this story.
Spanning a decade and an ocean, Of Iron and Incense is a historical saga of duty, faith, and the extraordinary cost of choosing your own path for readers who want their historical fiction to hurt a little before it heals.
Some bonds are forged. Others are simply found.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length0 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
1715. A Ray of Light
2Prologue
1816. A Light That Remains
31. Terms of Inheritance
1917. Five Lights
42. A Matter of Advantage
2018. The Dimming of the Light
53. The Line Ahead
2119. The Light Remembered
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64. What Is Missing?
2220. Before the Storm
75. Passage To Calcutta
2321. A Himalayan Blue Poppy
86. Elysium
2422. Where It Belongs
97. Not Quite Home
2523. The Road Home
108. A Season in Simla
2624. Of Iron and Incense
119. Tunnel 33 Barog
2725. A Matter of Legacy
1210. The Golden Deer
2826. The Fires We Choose
1311. A Pale Hem On Cut Grass
2927. Where Iron Meets Grace
1412. The Song Celestial
30Epilogue
1513. Elysium’s Embrace
31Author’s Note: Continue the Journey…
1614. A Place of Her Own
32About the Author
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