The Wrath and the Dawn

Resumen del libro

1 New York Times Bestseller. A sumptuous, epic love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights. 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 terrible 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 get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch ...she may be falling in love with a murderer. Shazi discovers that the villainous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. It's up to her to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all."So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?" "Shazi? Honestly, I pity the wolves."

Biografía del autor

Renée Ahdieh ha pasado parte de su vida en Corea del Sur, aunque en la actualidad reside en Carolina del Norte. En 2015 publicó con gran éxito La ira y el amanecer (Nocturna, 2017), una reinterpretación de Las mil y una noches cuya trama concluye en La rosa y la daga (Nocturna, 2017), que será llevada al cine por la productora Imagine Entertainment. Con La llama en la niebla (Nocturna, 2018) y El humo en el sol (Nocturna, 2019) ha creado otra exitosa bilogía ambientada en el Japón feudal. Nada más publicarse, entró en la lista de más vendidos del New York Times.