![]() ![]() ![]() It is such an old, deep-rooted custom that it’s said even our gods themselves practiced it when they bore our race onto the earth. T HERE IS A TRADITION IN OUR kingdom, one all castes of demon and human follow. Lei, still the wide-eyed country girl at heart, must decide how far she’s willing to go for justice and revenge. Her forbidden romance becomes enmeshed with an explosive plot that threatens her world’s entire way of life. There, she does the unthinkable: she falls in love. Over weeks of training in the opulent but oppressive palace, Lei and eight other girls learns the skills and charm that befit a king’s consort. Now, the guards are back and this time it’s Lei they’re after - the girl with the golden eyes whose rumored beauty has piqued the king’s interest. She lives in a remote village with her father, where the decade-old trauma of watching her mother snatched by royal guards for an unknown fate still haunts her. In this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. Uncover a riveting story of palace intrigue set in a sumptuous Asian-inspired fantasy world in the breakout YA novel that Publisher’s Weekly calls “elegant and adrenaline-soaked.” ![]()
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