THE OTTOMAN JEWEL * MURAD III

Katalin Báthory, the illegitimate daughter of a Hungarian count, lives hidden from the world until one violent night steals her from everything she has ever known. Torn from her homeland and sold into the heart of the Ottoman Empire, she is brought before the most powerful woman in the dynasty: Nurbanu Sultan.

Seeing in the quiet brown-eyed girl a weapon against her greatest enemy, Nurbanu renames her Gevheri - the jewel - and sends her to Manisa to capture the attention of Şehzade Murad, a prince hopelessly consumed by his love for Safiye Sultan.

But the palace is not built for love.

Among silks, secrets, and betrayal, Gevheri quickly learns that every smile hides ambition and every child born becomes both a blessing and a danger. As Murad's affection for her grows, so does Safiye's hatred. What begins as a political game soon transforms into something far more dangerous when Gevheri herself falls deeply in love with the prince she was sent to manipulate.

From frightened foreign girl to imperial wife of Sultan Murad III, Gevheri must survive the ruthless world of the Ottoman court - a world where sisters create rivals, mothers bury children, and power is paid for in blood.

Because in the Ottoman palace, jewels are admired...

but they are also possessed.