The Monsoon's Keep

Kamala Perera strips cinnamon bark in the humid groves of southern Ceylon, carrying a secret that has hollowed her from the inside for thirteen years—a daughter she was forced to surrender. When the young woman arrives at her grove decades later as a university botanist, Kamala must choose between the silence that protects them both and the truth that could shatter everything. Set against the fragrant, rain-soaked plantations of 1930s and 1940s Ceylon, this is a story of caste, sacrifice, and the fierce, quiet love between mother and child.