'Lush and stunning.Inspired by Indian epics, this sapphic fantasy will rip your heart out.' - BuzzFeed News

'A fierce, heart-wrenching exploration of the value and danger of love in a world of politics and power.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Simply magnificent.' -Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun 'Suri’s incandescent feminist masterpiece hits like a steel fist inside a velvet glove. Harrow, author of The Once and Future Witches 'An intimate, complex, magical study of empire and the people caught in its bloody teeth. 'Raises the bar for what epic fantasy should be.' -Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights 'Suri’s writing always brings me to another world one full of wonders and terrors, where every detail feels intricately and carefully imagined.' -R. Together, they will set an empire ablaze. The other a powerful priestess desperate to save her family. One is a ruthless princess seeking to steal a throne. When Malini witnesses Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled.

But in order to keep the truth of her past safely hidden, she works as a servant in the loathed regent’s household and cleaning Malini’s chambers. Chakraborty, author of the The City of Brass).Įxiled by her despotic brother, princess Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while imprisoned in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters but is now little more than a decaying ruin. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, LIBRARY JOURNAL, BOOKLIST, AND THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARYĪ ruthless princess and a powerful priestess come together to rewrite the fate of an empire in this “fiercely and unapologetically feminist tale of endurance and revolution set against a gorgeous, unique magical world” (S. WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

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