The first in a sparkling new duology, Blade of Honey, by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Hafsah Faizal, is a tantalizing, deadly romantic fantasy where a girl's only chance at her target's throat comes with a chance at his heart.

Yasmine Ra'ad has a vendetta against the most powerful man in Arawiya: the king himself. His throne was built upon the bones of her family, and though she's never wielded a blade, she dreams of the day she can end his life. That day arrives with an invitation, for the king is in need of a wife.

Altair al-Badawi will die by the next full moon-unless he takes a bride. And if he chooses her from one of the houses of old, the rest will riot, so when his captain of the guard proposes a competition in which anyone might try her hand at becoming queen, he agrees.

Yasmine knows she must play the part of a doting suitor if she wishes to enact her revenge. She does it well. Too well. Altair knows he must marry even when he wishes for nothing less. But as the hourglass empties, will they find a love worth living - or dying - for?

Hafsah Faizal is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling, award-winning author of A Tempest of Tea, A Steeping of Blood and the Sands of Arawiya duology, and the founder of IceyDesigns, where she creates websites for authors and beauteous goodies for everyone else. A Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, when she's not writing, she can be found designing, playing video games, or traversing the world. Born in Florida and raised in California, she now resides in North Carolina with her husband and a library of books waiting to be devoured.