The girl who would not kneel
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Captured from her Nordic village and renamed Zahra, Svanhildr is thrown into the glittering cruelty of the Ottoman harem. But she refuses to play the game. Silent, spiritual, and defiant, she clings to memory and sisterhood-becoming a quiet force of rebellion in a world built to break her.
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