The Ten-foot Chain

Vasantasena arrives at King Vikramavati’s court in golden chains, but the king is not the man she remembers from the battlefield. The warrior who rescued her left her with a more dangerous longing: love for the captain who never touched her.

A dinner-table challenge—can love survive three days in a ten-foot chain?—sets four writers to test desire against confinement. The first tale carries us to an imagined Golden Age of Hindustan, where Vasantasena, captured in war, must face a king who offers her his heart and a captain whose restraint has made him irresistible. Her body may be bound, but her heart is not so easily commanded. Which bond will prove harder to break: the one of gold, or the one made by desire?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.