'The Desire of the Moth' is a novel written by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. The story begins while John Wesley Pringle is on a leisurely ride from Prescott to the Rio

A fifteen-year-old widow runs across a bridge to catch a train bound for Trichi. Sowmya is running away to make sense of the events that had seized her body and

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.