#1 New York Times Bestseller
A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One
Nights
Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a
killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new
bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a
suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry
Khalid. 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. Shazi's wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn
that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she's falling in love
with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.
She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and
neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover
the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.
*The book is a Rough Cut Edition (pages are deliberately not the same
length).*