The Wrath and the Dawn Series

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to the breathtaking bestseller The Wrath and the Dawn

“A satisfying fast-paced conclusion, Ahdieh explores the difficulty of family, lasting loyalty, and love giving you a tale you won’t soon forget.”–InStyle

In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid’s empire. Shahrzad is almost a prisoner caught between loyalties to people she loves. But she refuses to be a pawn and devises a plan. While her father, Jahandar, continues to play with magical forces he doesn’t yet understand, Shahrzad tries to uncover powers that may lie dormant within her. With the help of a tattered old carpet and a tempestuous but sage young man, Shahrzad will attempt to break the curse and reunite with her one true love.

#1 New York Times bestselling Renée Ahdieh stuns in a lush, evocative, retelling of The Arabian Nights, perfect for romantasy fans looking for their next fix. Now with a gorgeous new cover.

Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a murderous boy-king. But all is not what it seems in Khorasan, and it will take the wit and will of one girl to break the cycle and the spell.

The Caliph is a killer. Every night the eighteen-year-old ruler takes a new bride and every dawn he has her killed. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid, the young Caliph of Khorasan, she does so with the plan of exacting revenge on him for the murder of her best friend and too many other girls to count. Her decision spurs her meek-mannered father to embrace a dark form of magic, her docile sister to abandon all pretense of timidity, and her childhood sweetheart, Tariq, to the treasonous rallying of the Caliph’s enemies in preparation for war. Shazi’s wit and will see her through to the dawn no others have seen, but with a catch even she cannot outwit. She’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.

But in betraying her family, turning her back on her childhood love, and chaining her heart to the ferocious king, Shahrzad may end up discovering a truth that frees them all.