One refuge. One love. One choice.

Sharon – GoodReads Review
May 29, 2021
I have really been enjoying this series. It’s a very entertaining medieval fantasy.

Alaina flees the wazir’s court gardens to seek refuge with a prince of the sands. There she must put down her quill and her healer’s bag to take up the staff of war. Foiled in her desire to rise as a renowned scribe in the court of the Caliph, Alaina, disguised as an apprentice healer to an exiled warrior, finds herself tending an ailing sheik of the tribe.

But the prince, Faisal ben Salin, pierces her deception, and soon has her scribing for him. Struggling to be worthy of his grandfather’s seat as sheik, Prince Faisal has enemies that Alaina would gladly shield him from. But she must keep her identity hidden as she faces Faisal’s rival. Falling in love with a prince she is not worthy of, Alaina falls yet again to his rival’s cunning schemes. For a traitor lurks in the Oasis of Oaths.

When enemies converge, Alaina must rise and break the webs of deceit, if she can discern her heart before it is too late. Will the girl who desired a scribe’s cushion in the caliph’s court find richer things than rosewater and immortal poetry in the desert sands?

A novella in an epic historical fantasy series for young adults – a masterful weaving of multicultural adventure and interracial clean romance. A companion novella to the Falcon Chronicle, here cultures clash and teens come of age in novel featuring martial arts and a lady of battle.

A great book series for readers ages 13-18 and adults who love historical fantasy adventure similar to The Healer’s Blade by Kyrie Wang and sweet historical romance like Melanie Dickerson’s Dericott series.

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