

Whisked from her home in Cairo, she was thrust into the dazzling royal court of Daevabad-and quickly discovered she would need all her grifter instincts to survive there.

Nahri’s life changed forever the moment she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable, mysterious djinn, during one of her schemes. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass-"the best adult fantasy I’ve read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)-conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger and waters run deep with old magic where blood can be dangerous as any spell, and a clever con artist from Cairo will alter the fate of a kingdom.
