After a life-threatening situation forces Amani out of her homeland, she must come to learn the ways of the royal Mamluk court. With her people at the brink of war with the powerful Arab empire, she must fight annexation and political turmoil. However, not all is well in either large kingdom. Defamation, missing persons and betrayals are the norm in this cutthroat environment. Dinars accompany deceit, murders occur after maghrib and schemes as fatal as sandstorms are common in the empire. Her future and the fate of her people rest in her hands, will she save her people or will her efforts be in vain?
4 parts