Chandra was 11 and she was about to be married to a boy aged 16. What could go wrong to spoil her happiness? However, out in the desert she realized she was alone and far from home. As she sat alone in her little room, she tried to remember who she was, and she hung on to her name.

"Chandra" won The Writer's Guild Award for a children's novel and the Lancashire Book Award. The paperback is now reissued in a mass-market format.