Loveena

A blend of love, myth, magic. Loveena unveils the hidden secrets of the seaside tourist haven of Mount Lavinia Hotel, the site of the intriguing love saga of the untouchable dancing girl Loveena and British Governor Thomas Maitland in colonial Sri Lanka. She fights to win back the lost privileges denied to their community by a royal decree. The women were even banned from covering their breasts and any transgression of this law was met with the death sentence. The novel connects loose ends of the enchanting romantic epic of the daughter of a Portuguese solider and a low-caste mother. All what remains of this bewitching colonial romance is the crumbling remains of a tunnel built by the governor for thier secret trysts beneath the hotel which served as his private mansion.