At first, I was upset by the fact that this book picks up TEN YEARS after those heartbreaking events, but once I started reading this book, I realized how perfect of a story choice this was. The ending of book one totally broke my heart and I’ve been dying to know what happened to Lukio after the final chapter. My heart really went out to Lukio in book one, and I loved the threads of his and Shosanna’s relationship that were interwoven there. With explosive secrets and unbreakable vows standing between them, finding a way to freedom for both may cost them everything. But when she is captured in a Philistine raid and enslaved in Ashdod, she is surprised to find that the brutal fighter known as Demon-Eyes is Lukio himself. But just as he is set to claim the biggest prize of all, the daughter of the king, his past collides with his present in the form of Shoshana.Īfter a heartbreaking end to her secret friendship with Lukio, Shoshana thought to never see the boy with the dual-colored eyes and the troubled soul again. Now the champion of Ashdod, Lukio has achieved every goal with the help of his ruthless cousin. Feeling betrayed by everyone, he returned to his birthplace in Philistia to become a famous fighter. Ten years ago Lukio fled Kiryat-Yearim, where he’d been adopted by the Levite family who guarded the Ark of the Covenant.
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Thereafter he went to the United States where he studied at the Stanford University, California, United States, to complete his graduation and post-graduation. He graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore in 1946 after which the Partition forced him to leave. As used to be the case in old Punjab, his early education was in Urdu, he was best at home in his early years with an Urdu novel by his side. Early life and education Ĭhandra was born in Kangra in Punjab, British India (now in Himachal Pradesh). He authored several books, including The Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism. An emeritus professor of modern history at Jawaharlal Nehru University, he specialized on the Indian independence movement and is considered a leading scholar on Mahatma Gandhi. Padma Bhushan (2010), Royal Asiatic Society of Bihar plaqueīipan Chandra ( – 30 August 2014) was an Indian historian, specialising in economic and political history of modern India. 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