The New York Times Bestseller!

“Totally riveting.” -Alexandra Bracken, #1 NY Times bestselling author 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 romantic in execution, the story’s atmospheric placing is definitely rife with political intrigue, using a deftly plotted narrative powered by fiercely passionate individuals 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 novel, the 1st in the And I Darken series.

NOBODY EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BE BRUTAL. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Since she and her mild younger sibling, Radu, were wrenched using their homeland of Wallachia and left behind by their dad to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the crucial to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns within a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage which makes them particular also makes them focuses on.

Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time, arranging her vengeance for your day when she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs limited to a place where he seems safe. And when they meet Mehmed, the defiant and lonesome son of the sultan, who’s likely to rule a country, Radu feels that he’s made a true friend-and Lada wonders if she’s finally found someone worthy of her passion.

But Mehmed is heir to the empire that Lada has sworn to fight against-and that Radu right now considers home. Collectively, Lada, Radu, and Mehmed form a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of like and loyalty to the breaking point.

From NY Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes the initial book in a dark, sweeping new series where heads will move, bodies will be impaled . . . and hearts will end up being broken.

“A dark and twisty fantasy . . . think Video game of Thrones, but with teenagers.”-Seventeen

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

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

“Calls for no prisoners, offering up brutal, emotional traditional fiction.”-NPR.org

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