The Serpent’s Longing: The Naga Princess and the Himalayan Yogi

Author(s): Namita Kumari

Location(s): Cambodia

Genre(s): Historical, Fantasy, Romance

Era(s): 3 BC

Drawn from the real founding legend of Funan — the 3rd-century kingdom on the Mekong that grew into the Khmer civilisation — The Serpent’s Longing carries readers to the river-mouths, temples, and green wilds of ancient Cambodia.
Soma is a Naga princess, a shapeshifter of the deep waters who has worn a thousand forms and never wanted to keep one. Kaundinya is a yogi from the Himalayas of India, who gives away everything he owns and crosses the sea with nothing but a dream of her. When he arrives on her shore, the two find, over eleven stolen days in the warm green dark, the one thing neither was ever meant to survive: being truly known.
Loving him will cost Soma every shape she has ever worn. Loving her is quietly spending the powers it took Kaundinya a lifetime to gather. Rooted in the landscape where Indian and Southeast Asian civilisations first met, this is a lyrical, immersive romance for readers drawn to ancient temples, river kingdoms, and the myths a place still carries in its stones.
A standalone historical fantasy romance set in the world that became Cambodia.

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