Empire of Sand
Chapters (48)
- COVER
- COPYRIGHT
- DEDICATION
- MAP
- CHAPTER TWO
- LALITA
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- RAHIMA
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- KAMAL
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- CHAPTER NINETEEN
- CHAPTER TWENTY
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
- CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
- LALITA
- CHAPTER THIRTY
- CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
- CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
- CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- EXTRAS
- MEET THE AUTHOR
- INTERVIEW
- A PREVIEW OF REALM OF ASH
- A PREVIEW OF TORN
- ORBIT NEWSLETTER
COVER
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Copyright © 2018 by Natasha Suri Excerpt from Realm of Ash copyright © 2019 by Natasha Suri Excerpt from Torn copyright © 2018 by Rowenna Miller Author photograph by Shekhar Bhatia Cover design by Lauren Panepinto
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Map by Tim Paul
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Names: Suri, Tasha, author.
Title: Empire of sand / Tasha Suri.
Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Orbit, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018027281 | ISBN 9780316449717 (trade pbk.) | ISBN 9780316449694 (ebook) Subjects: | GSAFD: Fantasy fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6119.U75 E47 2018 | DDC 823/.92—dc23
ISBNs: 978-0-316449717 (trade paperback), 978-0-316449694 (ebook) E3-20181011-JV-PC
Contents
COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
MAP
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
LALITA
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
RAHIMA
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
KAMAL
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
LALITA
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
EXTRAS
MEET THE AUTHOR
INTERVIEW
A PREVIEW OF REALM OF ASH
A PREVIEW OF TORN
ORBIT NEWSLETTER
DEDICATION
For my dad, Nishant Suri.
You would have been proud.
MAP
CHAPTER ONE
Mehr woke up to a soft voice calling her name. Without thought, she reached a hand beneath her pillow and closed her fingers carefully around the hilt of her dagger. She could feel the smoothness of the large opal embedded in the hilt, and its familiar weight beneath her fingertips calmed her. She sat up and pushed back the layer of gauze surrounding her divan.
“Who is it?” she called out.