The first episode of a new cycle that is chronologically after the Ottoman cycle and before the African cycle, The Pavilion of Pleasures takes place in India at the time of British domination. Jade, accompanied by Lady and Lord Nelson, arrives at the palace of Eschnapur mandated by the Rani, mother of the maharadjah. The latter wishes that the Djinn initiate to love his future bru, the daughter of the rebel Radjah Sing. This in the secret hope that his bru, strong of power, influences the policy of his son, favorable to the English. But a strange curse hovers on the palace. Curse that takes the form of a child who will only show himself... only in Jade.