Written prior to the author's Deva Dasi, and first published in 1956 as number 31 in the Traveller's Companion series, Kama Houri is Mardaan's tale of young Ann Pemberton, a beautiful young naif who visits India during Victoria's reign. Finding herself possessed of many strange urges, she's alone with a soldier in her father, the colonel's native cavalry. And things get very interesting from that point.