title: The Demon's Daughter: A Love Story from South India (SUNY series in Hindu Studies)
author: Pingali Suranna
description: The translators include an afterword that explores the cultural setting of the work and its historical and literary contexts. Anyone interested in the literature and mythology of India will find this book compelling, but all readers who love a good story will enjoy this moving book. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have provided an elegant translation that will serve well the contemporary reader who wishes to encounter a masterwork of world literature largely unknown in the West.
zlib_text: TO CARESS A DEMON’S SOUL
  A Story of Love and Magic
  
  NADINE MUTAS
  
  CONTENTS
  Cover Copy
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Epilogue
  Read On
  Also by Nadine Mutas
  Acknowledgments
  About the Author
  
  TO CARESS A DEMON’S SOUL
  A Story of Love and Magic
  Nadine Mutas
  Witch Anjali Gupta keeps a damning secret.
  At age twelve, she saved the life of a boy not much older than her. Which would have been a good
  deed—if that boy wasn’t a shadow demon, and Anjali meant to hunt and kill his kind. Now, ten years
  later, she discovers that the elusive dark protector who has covertly guarded her for years is in fact
  the shadow demon she once saved. Determined to face her past, she confronts him to find out if
  sparing his life was right—or whether he’s the biggest mistake she’s ever made.
  Thorne has never forgotten the girl whose inexplicable act of kindness saved his life. For years, he’s
  been her silent, stealthy protector, not daring to act on his desire for her. 