Shannon Hale's The Goose Girl meets Mary Pearson's The Kiss of Deception.
A slave must grasp her destiny.
Alaina flees her master's rose perfume and court gardens for the tents of a Twilket prince of the sands. The wazir sends an army against Faisal's tents, and a traitor lurks in the Oasis of Oaths. For the wazir's reach is long; a slave who runs must be caught.
While her sister sails for Britannia to free them from a death sentence, Alaina must find the strength to put down her quill and her healer's bag and take up the staff of war.
She holds disastrous keys of choice in her forbidden love, her martial skill, and the wisdom of one greater than her heart.
So begins a war for freedom, justice, love . . .
But the greatest traitor may be her heart . . .
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.