Series: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin Book 1
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Length: 496 pages
Audiobook Length: 12 hours and 4 minutes
First Published: 2020
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For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal—kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.
But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny; and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic . . . requiring the beating heart of a king. And she knows just how to obtain one: by offering her hand in marriage to the victor of the Solstasia competition.
When Malik rigs his way into the contest, they are set on a heart-pounding course to destroy each other. But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stir, will they be able to see their tasks to the death?
Quotes from A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
A story ends when it ends, and not a moment before. If you are unhappy with this ending, make a new one.
Slaves deserve to be remembered just as much as queens.
Nothing good can come of a place that refuses to see the pain of the people on whose backs it was built.
The pain you have endured does not justify the pain you inflict on others.
About Roseanne A. Brown
Roseanne A. Brown is the author of A Song of Wraiths and Ruin and A Psalm of Storms and Silence. She is an immigrant from Ghana and currently lives in the United States. Visit the author’s website →
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