Blade of Honey: A tantalizing romantic fantasy from the #1 bestselling author of A Tempest of Tea

The first in a sparkling new duology, Blade of Honey, by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Hafsah Faizal, is a tantalizing, deadly romantic fantasy where a girl’s only chance at her target’s throat comes with a chance at his heart. Yasmine Ra’ad has a vendetta against the most powerful man in Arawiya: the king himself.His throne was built upon the bones of her family, and though she’s never wielded a blade, she dreams of the day she can end his life.That day arrives with an invitation, for the king is in need of a wife. Altair al-Badawi will die by the next full moon-unless he takes a bride. And if he chooses her from one of the houses of old, the rest will riot, so when his captain of the guard proposes a competition in which anyone might try her hand at becoming queen, he agrees. Yasmine knows she must play the part of a doting suitor if she wishes to enact her revenge.She does it well. Too well. Altair knows he must marry even when he wishes for nothing less.But as the hourglass