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Lada Dragwlya, a princess from Wallachia, and her gentle younger brother Radu are uprooted from their homeland and abandoned by their father. Raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada embraces ruthlessness as survival. Together, the siblings become pawns in a brutal power game, always moving under an unseen threat. Their special lineage both elevates and endangers them.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Historical Fiction/Medieval Historical Fiction
Authors: Kiersten White
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