Of Sand and Storm

It's a dangerous game, and Cinder's freedom is the prize.

By law, any child born in Idara is free, even if that child is born in a slave brothel. Unfortunately for Cinder, she has grown into a beauty that surpasses even the renown of her mother and grandmother, making her far too valuable a commodity to lose. The slaveholder calls in Cinder's debts, forcing her into a dangerous game where her very freedom is the prize.

The man most interested in buying Cinder is Adar - a prince with a wicked reputation that masks a kindness she cannot fathom. In his glittering world of prestige and power, she discovers the game for her freedom is only a smaller move in a complex coup against the nobility. And Cinder's newfound closeness with the prince makes her the perfect assassin to kill Adar's own mother, the immortal Summer Queen. If she fails, the slaver will kill her entire family.

Cinder is faced with an impossible choice: save herself and her family or Adar and his. What will she choose? Buy Of Sand and Storm to find out.

"A captivating series!" –Jennifer A. Nielsen, New York Times bestselling author