Acknowledgements -- Photograph acknowledgments -- Introduction : love factually -- Prologue : a grotesque tableau -- ch. 1. Hard road to freedom -- ch. 2. The year of living dangerously -- ch. 3. The comfort of strangers -- ch. 4. Unfinished business -- ch. 5. In search of love -- ch. 6. A princess of the world -- ch. 7. "They want to kill me" -- ch. 8. Fakes, forgeries and secret tapes -- ch. 9. The long goodbye -- ch. 10. The crowning of the Queen of Hearts -- ch. 11. The final odyssey -- ch. 12. Trials of the torch bearers -- ch. 13. The curse of the lost princess -- Epilogue : passport to Parachinar -- Timeline -- Bibliography -- Index.