The bird and the blade /
Bannen, Megan,
The bird and the blade / Bird & the blade Megan Bannen. - First edition. - ix, 416 pages : map ; 22 cm
As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom. She becomes an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks' exile to return home. Her feelings evolve into a hopeless love, as Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. All suitors must solve three impossible riddles to win her hand-- and if they fail, they die. -- adapted from jacket
9780062674159 0062674153
bl2018094790
Slavery--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Kings and rulers--Fiction.
Princes--Fiction.
Riddles--Fiction.
Mongols--History--To 1500--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
Young adult fiction.
The bird and the blade / Bird & the blade Megan Bannen. - First edition. - ix, 416 pages : map ; 22 cm
As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom. She becomes an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks' exile to return home. Her feelings evolve into a hopeless love, as Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. All suitors must solve three impossible riddles to win her hand-- and if they fail, they die. -- adapted from jacket
9780062674159 0062674153
bl2018094790
Slavery--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Kings and rulers--Fiction.
Princes--Fiction.
Riddles--Fiction.
Mongols--History--To 1500--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
Young adult fiction.