Tamarind never knew her Indian mum Chinty who died soon after she was born. So when she arrives at her ancestral home a huge mansion in the Himalayas surrounded by luxuriant gardens she's full of questions for her extended family. But instead of answers she finds an ominous silence - and a trickle of intriguing clues: an abandoned hut a friendly monkey a glowing star ring and a strange girl in the garden who calls herself Ishta. Slowly Tamarind unravels a mystery at the heart of who she is...