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In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad is torn from her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan, and finds herself surrounded by a desert of intrigue and danger. When Khalid’s secret curse threatens to separate them forever, she returns to a family sheltered by his enemies and re‑encounters her childhood sweetheart, Tariq, who now leads forces against Khalid’s empire. Faced with conflicting loyalties, Shahrzad refuses to be a pawn and devises a daring plan to break the curse. While her father, Jahandar, experiments with unknown magical forces, Shahrzad searches for dormant powers within herself, aided by a tattered old carpet and a sage young man. Together they strive to free her people and reunite the lovers against a backdrop of war, desert heat, and rising magic.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy
Authors: Renée Ahdieh
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