The Duke of Shad­ows (2008) by Mered­ith Duran is a his­tor­i­cal romance set out­side Regency Eng­land. The story is par­tially set in India dur­ing a most tur­bu­lent time when the British mil­i­tary was in occu­pa­tion of the coun­try. The grow­ing ten­sions between the natives and the British offi­cers leads to what some refer to as the Indian