The Star-Touched Queen
Star-Touched: Book #1
- By: Roshani Chokshi
- Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
- Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Bookseller Recommendation
If you enjoyed Circe, then you’ll love The Star-Touched Queen.
“A gorgeous interweaving of Indian folklore and mythology! Chokshi is a spellbinding storyteller—her descriptions of glass gardens, mysterious voices, and an all-important tapestry will leave you wanting more. This is a fantastic book about finding yourself.”
Lafe, Oblong Books
Description
A lush and vivid story steeped in Indian folklore and mythology, Roshani Chokshi's The Star-touched Queen is a novel that no listener will soon forget. An instant New York Times bestseller!
Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you're only seventeen?
Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran's queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar's wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. Desire...
But Akaran has its own secrets -- thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Yet who, besides her husband, can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most... including herself.
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Star-Touched Series

The Star-Touched Queen
By: Roshani Chokshi
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A lush and vivid story steeped in Indian folklore and mythology, Roshani Chokshi's The Star-touched Queen is a novel that no listener will soon forget. An instant New York Times bestseller!
Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you're only seventeen?
Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises... Read more »
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Death and Night
By: Roshani Chokshi
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 3 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
An audio novella from the bestselling author Roshani Chokshi. Before The Star-Touched Queen there was only Death and Night.
He was Lord of Death, cursed never to love. She was Night incarnate, destined to stay alone. After a chance meeting, they wonder if, perhaps, they could be meant for more. But danger crouches in their paths, and the choices... Read more »
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A Crown of Wishes
By: Roshani Chokshi
Narrated by: Priya Ayyar
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a bonus novella, Death and Night, written by the author.
From the author of The Star-Touched Queen comes a beautiful lush fantasy, Roshani Chokshi's A Crown of Wishes.
Gauri, the princess of Bharata, has been taken as a prisoner of war by her kingdom’s enemies. Faced with a future of exile and scorn, Gauri has nothing left... Read more »

Star-Touched Stories
By: Roshani Chokshi
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. Star-Touched Stories by Roshani Chokshi combines three lush and adventurous stories in the Star-Touched World.
Death and Night
He was Lord of Death, cursed never to love. She was Night incarnate, destined to stay alone. After a chance meeting, they wonder if, perhaps, they could be meant... Read more »