En Daevabad, donde los djinn pueden convocar llamas con solo chasquear los dedos, los ríos fluyen con magia antigua y la sangre puede ser tan peligrosa como cualquier hechizo, una astuta timadora de El Cairo alterará el destino de un reino.
La vida de Nahri cambió para siempre cuando accidentalmente invocó a Dara, un djinn formidable y misterioso, durante una de sus estafas. Empujada a la resplandeciente corte real de Daevabad, necesitaba todos sus instintos de timadora para poder sobrevivir. Ahora, mientras Nahri acepta su legado y su poder, debe forjar un nuevo camino.
Mientras, exiliado por atreverse a desafiar a su padre, Ali va a la deriva en las despiadadas arenas de su tierra ancestral, perseguido por asesinos y forzado a depender de aterradoras nuevas habilidades que amenazan con revelar un terrible secreto familiar.
Y mientras un nuevo siglo se acerca y los djinn se concentran entre los muros de bronce de Daevabad para celebrarlo, un poder procedente del norte llegará directo a las puertas de la ciudad.
SE AVECINA UNA TORMENTA.
«Una historia tremendamente mágica y, aun así, del todo creíble». LAINI TAYLOR
Fantasía
Nahri's life changed forever the moment she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable, mysterious djinn, during one of her schemes. Whisked from her home in Cairo, she was thrust into the dazzling royal court of Daevabad, and quickly discovered she would need all her grifter instincts to survive there. Now, with Daevabad entrenched in the dark aftermath of a devastating battle, Nahri must forge a new path for herself. But even as she embraces her heritage and the power it holds, she knows she's been trapped in a gilded cage, watched by a king who rules from the throne that once belonged to her family, and one misstep will doom her tribe. Meanwhile, Ali has been exiled for daring to defy his father. Hunted by assassins, adrift on the unforgiving copper sands of his ancestral land, he is forced to rely on the frightening abilities the marid -the unpredictable water spirits- have gifted him. But in doing so, he threatens to unearth a terrible secret his family has long kept buried. And as a new century approaches and the djinn gather within Daevabad's towering brass walls for celebrations, a threat brews unseen in the desolate north. It's a force that would bring a storm of fire straight to the city's gates... and one that seeks the aid of a warrior trapped between worlds, torn between a violent duty he can never escape and a peace he fears he will never deserve.
