But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. So it is a terrible surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. But she refuses to be a pawn and devises a plan.Įvery dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Shahrzad is almost a prisoner caught between loyalties to people she loves. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid's empire. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse-one that might keep them apart forever. In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan.
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