Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss.
Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie's life was cruelly overturned in a matter of months.
At sixteen, Amie now finds herself disinherited, framed for a scandalous crime, and forced to serve Princess Mariama of Mali.
Her father, Emperor Sulyeman, has created a series of impossible trials for his daughter's suitors.
When they fail, he publicly boils them alive, littering Mariama's path to marriage with ninety-nine corpses.At first, Amie's life at court is drudgery--the chores are difficult, the servants despise her, and Princess Mariama is prone to mood swings--but the more she learns about the princess's circumstances, the closer the two girls become.
Amie and her intended, Kader, plan to escape Timbuktu and make a new life far away from the shadow of death that has fallen upon the emperor's court, but she finds herself increasingly drawn to the princess in ways she doesn't understand.
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