The Serpent's Shadow
Mercedes Lackey
Daw Books, 2001
ISBN:0-88677-915-4 (paperback)
To an alternative Victorian London Dr. Maya Witherspoon, son of a Brahmin lady and an English
physician, comes to practice. Besides standard Western medicine, Maya knows the magic of India, where she grew up. Maya's aunt Shivani has also come to England, but as a devotee of Kali, she hates her sister's marriage and is determined to wreak havoc on the English. Maya must seek the aid of British magical masters before the powers of Kali devastate London. And meanwhile she has to maintain her practice in the face of the ignorance, sexism, and insularity of the British medical establishment.
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