glass is only brittle until it breaks, then it's sharp.

"GOD SAVE ANYONE WHO STANDS IN HER WAY." Even the painters couldn't capture the kind of darkness with which she made an empire bow. • winner of thefaefolk's book of the month • © sianna okaat 2017 • 284 in fantasy • 5 in #tarot •

Cover by -stellae "golden child, unconquerable king, how does it feel to hold the world in the palm of your hands only to have it slip between your fingers because of her?" -Ruination

Prince of Persia meets The Wrath and the Dawn in this epic retelling of the life of the Abbasid Queen Al-Khayzuran. Arabia - Circa 764. Al-Khayzuran's life changes forever when she is kidnapped from her home and sold to a caravan returning from Hajj. An unlikely and altogether fateful series of events leads her face to face with the gates of the capital, a mysterious desert spirit, and a young prince on the verge of rising to the seat of Caliph. Thrust into a world of deception, royalty, intrigue and war, Khayzuran must learn everything she can as fast as she can, or leave her fate in the hands of her enemies.

{a wattpad featured story-- 6/29/18 -- 7/20/18} an HTBC book of the month for November 2018 cover by the talented ellis ( @rubyruins ) ❝the night has a thousand eyes, and the moon knows all your secrets.❞ --in which a young woman bravely defies the odds by regaling the sultan of her kingdom with stories spun of gold and gossamer and perfumed with roses, yet finds herself falling into the beast's claws because of it. (full summary inside) #TheCosmicAwards2019

cover by the talented ellis ( @rubyruins ) ❝ is this what i have bred in the shah's harem? a girl that disregards every precept of his law and presumes to bring him to his knees with nothing but a smile? ❞ | IN WHICH A GIRL AND A CROWN AND A THRONE BRING A NATION TO THEIR KNEES AND A GOD TO THE FOREFRONT | ❝ they think he is a god. i know better than that. ❞ (full summary inside)

you've left me; constellations left unstrung within my veins. highest ranking; #2 in poetry november 2018

The boys are innocent. The girls know their way around. #faceyourevils [ #7 in action 4.13.17 ] Copyright © 2016 , humanoligy

Prey meets predator under a starry night.