In the Twentieth Wife and The Feast of Roses, an almost-abandoned child, Mehrunnisa, grows up to become Empress Nur Jahan, the most powerful woman in the Mughal dynasty. Her grand-niece, Princess Jahanara, in Shadow Princess, is supreme in her father Emperor Shah Jahan???s harem and yet her life is overshadowed by the tomb her father builds for her mother ??? the Taj Mahal.