The Cinnamon House

Two women bound by a lifetime of friendship face an impossible choice as the world they share is carved in half. In the scorching summer of 1947, Hindu Anjali Sharma and Muslim Farah Hussain must flee Lahore together as Partition tears through the Punjab, turning neighbors into enemies and roads into killing fields. With seventy-two hours before the border seals shut, they set out across three hundred miles of burning countryside—carrying nothing but each other's trust and a small brass tin of cinnamon bark from the warehouse where they grew up.