Why do writers spend weeks, months and years toiling over a story that will simply not let them go until they have got it out of their system? Historical fiction writer Nandini Sen Gupta tells us what compelled her to write The Ocean's Own, the third in her Gupta Empire trilogy.... Crushing on a Coin Do you believe in love at first sight? I do. It happened to me. And this is the story of how that crush turned out. Both for me and for him. I am Nandini Sengupta, the author of the The Ocean's Own , the last and final book in the Gupta Empire Trilogy (publisher: HarperCollins India). And this is the story of how a face I came across imprinted on a gold coin turned into my muse. A muse who called out to me through the mists of time. You see, the object of my obsession was a man who lived many years ago. Correction, he lived 1500 years ago. And yet so strong was his pull that he made me embark on a topsy-turvy travel back to his time. His name: Maharaja Adhiraja Samra...