How did a nice Irish girl end up naked-or nearly so-in the court of an Indian rajah? Leandre is the latest gift to the powerful and handsome Sukumar, and she knows the smart thing to do would be to seduce the rajah and become his favorite. But pride and temper, her weaknesses since childhood, conspire to destroy her plans. Instead of ending up in the Rajah's bed, she finds herself about to become a sacrificial meal for his palace pets-man-eating Bengal tigers. All his life Bhavesh has dreamed of Prahleandra, the tiger goddess who, in the form of a beautiful woman with skin like milk and hair the color of honey, took a human husband. Just when his dream has finally become flesh, it seems he will lose her to Sukumar's tigers. The tigers, however, have ideas of their own.