The Moth and the Flame: A Wrath and Dawn Short Story
It started as playful, if barbed, banter before rising to a fateful wager with a most notorious rake – the Captain of the Guard, Jalal al-Khoury – who may have finally met his match in a lovely, if haughty, handmaiden, Despina. But she, too, seems to have met her match in the handsome Jalal. What begins as a tempestuous battle of will and wit in short order becomes a passionate affair spurred on by tragedy of the worst kind.
About the Wrath and the Dawn Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Wrath and the Dawn(2015)
- 2.The Rose and the Dagger(2016)
- +The Crown and the Arrow: A Wrath and Dawn Short Story(2016)
- +The Mirror and the Maze: A Wrath and Dawn Short Story(2016)
- +The Moth and the Flame: A Wrath and Dawn Short Story(2016)
Reading age: 13+ years
This series should be read in order.
Every 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. Shazi's wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch... she's falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.
She 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 cruel cycle once and for all.