![]() This first-time author has created a winning entry in the world of young adult fantasy." ![]() This first book in a series will hook young adult readers who grew up on tales of Aladdin and the Arabian Nights and is sure to entice others looking for a tale of romance and adventure. Besides the lure of beautiful language and a compelling story, she also touches on themes of the desire to truly belong and the discovery of inner strength. Lough has created a lyrical story resounding with magic, love, and strife. Treachery by the vizier endangers both Najwa and Zayele, who learn they are connected not only by Zayele’s wish. As each is catapulted into a foreign world, events unfold showing each young woman’s strengths amid unexpected love and intrigue. When Najwa makes a forbidden trip to the surface of the world, she is seen and seized by Zayele, who wishes for them to trade places. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Zayele is living outside of Baghdad in rural Zeb, where she chafes at the restrictions placed on her life, especially when she is unexpectedly selected by the caliph’s vizier to travel to Baghdad to wed the prince. ![]() But her first time above ground, she is enthralled by the beauty of the human world and intrigued by the human prince she sees in Baghdad’s palace. "In medieval times, during a war between the humans and jinni, sixteen-year-old Najwa lives below the world’s surface in the cavern of crystal, fire, and water, training to be a jinni who can spy on the humans living above them. ![]()
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