{"product_id":"the-assassins-of-tamurin-9780380978038","title":"The Assassins of Tamurin","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe voice of an extraordinary new fantasist sings out strong and true in this epic and magical tale of intrigue  forbidden love  and shocking betrayal in a wondrous  barbaric realm where beauty is a weapon . . . and treachery an art. The river god had spared the infant girl the villagers found drifting on a boat with a dead man and dying woman  so the superstitious townsfolk believed it would be a sacrilege to let the child die as well. The name Lale  meaning \"lucky \" is the last good thing they give her  and she grows up abused  unloved  and resented -- until  at age eleven  she comes to the attention of Makina Seval  \"Mother Midnight \" the absolute ruler of the Despotate of Tamurin. Enrolled in Three Springs  the Despotanas special school for orphaned and unwanted girls  young Lale finally finds what she has always coveted: respect  affection  community . . . a home. But Three Springs is an institution of dark and shadowy purpose  a place where the wards of Mother Midnight are trained to become perfect spies and cold-blooded  ruthlessly efficient killers. And Lale has learned her lessons well. At age twenty  she stands poised to play her role in the Despotanas grandest scheme: vengeance. Years earlier Makina Sevals entire family -- including her infant son  the rightful heir to the Bethiyan throne -- was brutally slain through the plots of a devious chancellor  who then raised up a young usurper to be the Sun Lord. Now it is Lales duty to insinuate her way into the court -- and the bed -- of that same usurper  Terem Rathai  no longer a child but a powerful and dangerous foe. And after she has earned Terems trust  Lale is to kill him.Bound by the blackest sorcery to remain loyal to her beloved Mother  Lale will suffer nightmarish torment -- even death -- if she fails. But once enmeshed in the web of deceit and treachery that has been spun around her  the young assassin begins to doubt the righteousness of her sworn mission. For not only will the Despotanas grand design bring doom upon the world itself  there hangs over Lale yet another appalling catastrophe -- one that threatens all that she is  all she has ever believed. Lale has fallen in love with the man she must destroy. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279765135413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0380978032","price":42.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780380978038.jpg?v=1780609401","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-assassins-of-tamurin-9780380978038","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}