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“Definitely riveting.” -Alexandra Bracken, #1 NYC Times bestselling writer of The Darkest Minds

This vividly rendered novel reads like HBO’s Game of Thrones . if it were set in the Ottoman Empire. Ambitious in scope and personal in execution, the story’s atmospheric setting is definitely rife with political intrigue, using a deftly plotted narrative powered by fiercely passionate character types and a fearsome heroine. Supporters of Victoria Aveyard’s THE RED about And I Darken QUEEN and Sabaa Tahir’s AN EMBER IN THE ASHES won’t want to miss this visceral, immersive, and mesmerizing book, the 1st in the And I Darken series.

NO-ONE EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BECOME BRUTAL. And Lada Dragwlya prefers it that method. Since she and her soft younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their dad to be elevated in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless may be the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage which makes them unique also makes them targets.

Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her period, arranging her vengeance for the day when she may go back to Wallachia and state her birthright. Radu longs limited to a location where he feels safe. And when they fulfill Mehmed, the defiant and lonesome son of the sultan, who’s expected to rule a country, Radu feels that he’s made a true friend-and Lada miracles if she’s finally discovered someone worthy of her passion.

But Mehmed is heir to the very empire that Lada has sworn to combat against-and that Radu now considers home. Jointly, Lada, Radu, and Mehmed type a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of like and loyalty towards the breaking point.

From NY Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes the 1st book inside a dark, sweeping new series where heads will roll, bodies will be impaled . . . and hearts will become broken.

“A dark and twisty dream . . . think Game of Thrones, but with teens.”-Seventeen

“Sinister, suspenseful, and unapologetically feminist.”-Buzzfeed

“Will completely spin you into another period and place.”-Bustle

“Needs no prisoners, providing up brutal, psychological historical fiction.”-NPR.org

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