A THOUSAND NIGHTS

Set against a harsh desert backdrop, A THOUSAND NIGHTS is a tale of family, love and power that would not feel out of place if Scheherazade herself were telling it.

And maybe she is.

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village, looking for a wife." Thus she thinks when she sees the dust cloud on the horizon. And she thinks also: he will not have my sister. So she is taken in her sister's place, and she thinks death will soon follow, but her sister calls upon the desert winds, and something besides death stirs the air instead. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous place filled with pretty things, all bought at cost beyond measure. He is not killing the girls he marries: he is draining them, and when their life-force has been used and they are dead, he casts them aside and weds anew. Night after night passes, and she is not drained. The words she speaks are given strange life of their own. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. But she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king, if only she can stop her heart from falling for a monster.