THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI

A thrilling transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty''s storytelling is fantasy at its best. -- R.F. Kuang #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy WarAn exhilarating propulsive adventure stitched from the threads of real history Amina’s adventures are the reason to read fantasy. -- Ava Reid internationally bestselling author of Juniper & ThornShannon Chakraborty the bestselling author of The City of Brass spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend.Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates she’s survived backstabbing rogues vengeful merchant princes several husbands and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety motherhood and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew do right by an old friend and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will.Yet the deeper Amina dives the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job and the girl’s disappearance than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend to seize one last chance at glory to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.