After her father’s brutal murder, Lara flees India for rural Wales to avoid testifying in court.

Setting up a new life, living under an assumed name she keeps a low profile, that is until Ricky, a local mechanic and self-proclaimed Rhondda-mafioso, appears on her track.  He’s been digging.  He knows who she really is and promises to redeem her father’s reputation. But at what cost? Soon he’s manipulating her, controlling who she sees, and what she does.  To escape Ricky, she may need to return to India to confront much greater terrors.  What exactly brought her father’s killers to his door? 

Lovedale juxtaposes the sultry heat of Kolkata with the sodden hills of West Wales.  It examines obsession, dark family secrets, and the cycles of coercive behavior.