A Thousand Nights-----pan macmillan
Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to my village, looking for a wife.
When Lo-Melkhiin - a formidable king - arrives at her desert home, she
knows that he will take her beautiful sister for a wife. Desperate to
save her sister from certain death, she makes the ultimate sacrifice -
leaving home and family behind to live with a fearful man.
But it seems that a strange magic flows between her and Lo-Melkhiin, and
night after night, she survives. Finding power in storytelling, 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.
Set against a harsh desert backdrop, A Thousand Nights by E K Johnston
is an evocative tale of love, mystery and magic that would not feel out
of place if Scheherazade herself were telling it.
