THE WRATH AND THE DAWN :BOOK 1 PB – RENEE AHDIEH

One of TIME magazine s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time A #1 New York Times bestseller and a sumptuous, epic tale inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. A riveting Game of Thrones meets Arabian Nights love story US Weekly 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 terrible 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 get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she may be falling in love with a murderer. Shazi discovers that the villainous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. It s up to her to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all. So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves? Shazi? Honestly, I pity the wolves.