Mahmud Nuralizai is the son of Farovistan’s amir. Nusaybah Hüseynzadə is the daughter of Dağellik’s shah. They were not supposed to marry each other.

But after the death of Osman, his brother and her husband, the pair are thrusted into a marriage neither wants. Together, they are supposed to become sultan and sultanah of the newly-established nation Zahrawi, but both know they are merely puppets for their rival fathers.

Their planned rule is stifled, however, by the Heisengaf Empire, a monstrous starship that has been waging war against them for over a year. And when the empress’ elite soldiers come looking for Nusaybah, husband and wife become the key to the plan involving a superweapon long thought lost.

Knowing there’s only one way to save their people, Nusaybah prepares to face Heisengaf head-on and Mahmud fights to protect her. But as they grow closer and become disillusioned with their families’ wants, they realise that both Farovistan and Dağellik may be vying for the superweapon for other reasons—and that their hunger for victory over the other could very well destroy them both.

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