The New York Times Bestseller! Absolutely riveting. -Alexandra Bracken #1 New York 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 intimate in
execution the story's atmospheric setting is rife with political intrigue with a deftly
plotted narrative driven by fiercely passionate characters and a fearsome heroine. Fans of
Victoria Aveyard's THE RED QUEEN and Sabaa Tahir's AN EMBER IN THE ASHES won't want to miss
this visceral immersive and mesmerizing novel the first in the And I Darken series. NO ONE
EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BE BRUTAL. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her
gentle younger brother Radu were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by
their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts Lada has known that being ruthless is 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 that makes them special also makes them
targets. Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time planning her vengeance for the day when
she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs only for a place where he
feels safe. And when they meet Mehmed the defiant and lonely son of the sultan who's expected
to rule a nation 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 very empire that Lada has sworn
to fight against-and that Radu now considers home. Together Lada Radu and Mehmed form a
toxic triangle that strains the bonds of love and loyalty to the breaking point. From New York
Times bestselling author Kiersten White comes the first book in a dark sweeping new series in
which heads will roll bodies will be impaled . . . and hearts will be broken. A dark and
twisty fantasy . . . think Game of Thrones but with teens.-Seventeen Sinister suspenseful
and unapologetically feminist.-Buzzfeed Will completely spin you into another time and
place.-Bustle Takes no prisoners offering up brutal emotional historical fiction.-NPR.org An
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