A small farm in Iowa; a flock of birds in the yellow grass.No car in the driveway, but there is a dead girl upstairs.Tony sees it all and keeps quiet, but the loss of hissister haunts him. Years later, and thousands of milesaway in India, it seems like his faith and his job as amissionary will give him the strength and the lasting happiness he had been yearning for. But when he meets Maya, a beautiful Hindu girl, he feels he is offered heaven on earth. Despite his belief that love has no boundaries and would dispel all differences, when his love for Maya crosses the barriers that are established by the institutions of faith built by men, his struggle begins, once again.The mysterious and sublime beauty of India, with its ancient,strange and complex ways, its sectarian strife, assailsthe reader in this powerful novel of East and West. CanTony reconcile his well-guarded Christian beliefs with the universality found in the wisdom of Vedanta, epitomizedin the form of Maya? Who will help them face the futuretogether? Christ or Krishna...Mary or Meera.?