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Author: Aamna Qureshi
Pub. Date: August 30, 2022
Publisher: CamCat Books
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 320
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She made her decision. Now she has to live with it.
Durkhanai Miangul sealed her lover’s
fate when she sent him through a door where either a lady or a lion awaited
him. But her decision was only the beginning of her troubles. Durkhanai worries
that she might not be the queen her people need or deserve when conflict
threatens her kingdom.
Her presumed-dead father comes back with a vengeance and wishes she join him in
his cause. But her family’s denial of his revenge forces Durkhanai to take
matters into her own hands and she must decide whether to follow the traditions
of her forefathers or forge a new path on her own.
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Excerpt:
Weeks passed. No one came to visit her, and she stopped
waiting. As the weather around her chilled, she felt her heart frosting over.
Faintly, she felt she had rid her system of him. Perhaps she would never feel a
thing again.
But then, he came to her, while she was curled up in bed,
crying.
She didn’t know how he came to be there, just that one
moment she was pushing tears back into her eyes, and the next there was a body
beside hers. She didn’t need to open her eyes to know that it was him.
“Come, sit up,” he coaxed, and she did as she was told.
He knead-
ed the tension from her shoulders with the hard curves of
his palms.
“What worries you?” he asked. She sighed in response.
“I can’t bear it anymore.”
“You can,” he told her. “And you will.”
She turned to look at him and instantly fell into a hug
against his chest. She was safe.
They stayed like that for some time. She strained her ear
in search of his heartbeat. But he was calm. Sure. Solid.
She pulled back, looked up at him. Gently, his fingers
cupped her face like wine—he tipped her chin forward to drink, but paused at
the last whisper before skin met skin.
He waited.
And so, soft as sin, she pressed her warm lips against
his. He tasted like a thousand stars bursting in her mouth. His fingers
murmured across her skin, cold as ice, but everywhere he touched her felt like
fire.
She kissed his cold cheek. He tasted like winter:
pine-needle and frost, everything that freezes your nose but warms your soul.
She was inexplicably warm and closed her eyes in comfort.
Instinctively, she reached for his lips once more—only to
find they were not there. He was gone.
When she awoke from the dream, she felt unaligned. As
though her
soul had been roughly shoved back into her body. She was
paralyzed, as she was when she awoke from nightmares, her body frozen with
fear—yet this was the opposite, for when she awoke, her reality was the
nightmare.
Slowly, the ice burned away. The pain was sudden and
swift, knocking the breath from her lungs. Durkhanai began to cry. She loved
him. The realization struck her.
She loved him.
And there was nothing to be done.
About Aamna Qureshi:
Aamna Qureshi
is a Pakistani, Muslim American who adores words. She grew up in a very loud
household, surrounded by English (for school), Urdu (for conversation), and
Punjabi (for emotion). Through her writing, she wishes to inspire a love for
the beautiful country and rich culture that informed much of her identity. When
she's not writing, she loves to travel to new places where she can explore
different cultures or to Pakistan where she can revitalize her roots. She also
loves baking complicated desserts, drinking fancy teas and coffees, watching
sappy rom-coms, and going for walks about the estate (her backyard). She
currently lives in New York. Look for her on IG @aamna_qureshi and Twitter
@aamnaqureshi_ and at her website aamnaqureshi.com.
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September 20th, midnight EST.
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