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Uprooted meets Children of Blood and Bone in this dark fantasy inspired by a Malian fairy tale about a princess whose suitors are challenged to gruesome trials.
Deep within the imperial palace at Timbuktu, Amie has suffered a devastating loss. Once the daughter of a prosperous salt merchant Amie's life was cruelly overturned in a matter of months. At sixteen, Amie now finds herself disinherited, framed for a scandalous crime, and forced to serve Princess Mariama of Mali. Her father, Emperor Sulyeman, has created a series of impossible trials for his daughter''s suitors. When they fail, he publicly boils them alive, littering Mariama's path to marriage with ninety-nine corpses.
At first, Amie's life at court is drudgerythe chores are difficult, the servants despise her, and Princess Mariama is prone to mood swingsbut the more she learns about the princess''s circumstances, the closer th
