One morning in the month of Aashada, a young man walks up to the gate of a small Brahmin home in Ambalpadi, near Udupi. He carries a letter from a cousin in Sirsi. He says he has come to learn cooking from Ramakrishna Bhatta. He is polite, well-mannered, exactly what he appears to be. He has come, in fact, for a diamond necklace. A heirloom only three people in the world know exists. But the wife of the cook — quiet, observant Phalguni — has been watching him from the moment he stepped across the threshold. And in another town, in another house, a woman named Lakshmi is about to learn the truth of her own marriage. A 5-part emotional mystery set on the Karavali coast, about two women, one necklace, and the strange grace of honesty.
