A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One NightsEvery dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer Khalid the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls Shazis wit and will indeed get her through to the dawn that no others have seen but with a catch shes falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friendShe discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.
