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Title:  The Rose and the Dagger (The Wrath and the Dawn #2) Author:  Renee Ahdieh  Pages: 416 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Penguin Canada/Putnam Juvenile  Release Date : May 3, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  The much anticipated sequel to the breathtaking  The Wrath and the Dawn , lauded by  Publishers Weekly  as "a potent page-turner of intrigue and romance." I am surrounded on all sides by a desert. A guest, in a prison of sand and sun. My family is here. And I do not know whom I can trust. In a land on the brink of war, Shahrzad has been torn from the love of her husband Khalid, the Caliph of Khorasan. She once believed him a monster, but his secrets revealed a man tormented by guilt and a powerful curse—one that might keep them apart forever. Reunited with her family, who have taken refuge with enemies of Khalid, and Tariq, her childhood sweetheart, she should be happy. But Tariq now commands forces set on destroying Khalid's...

Title: The Wrath & the Dawn (The Wrath & the Dawn #1) Author: Renee Ahdieh  Pages: 388 Genre: Fantasy  Publisher: Putnam Juvenile Release Date: May 12, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *e-ARC provided by publisher for review* Summary: ( Goodreads ) A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by  A Thousand and One Nights Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi's wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend. She ...

Title: The Conspiracy of Us  Author: Maggie Hall  Pages: 336 Genre: YA Publisher: Putnam Juvenile/ Razorbill  Release Date: January 13, 2015   Summary: ( Goodreads )  To fight her destiny as the missing heir to a powerful and dangerous secret society, sixteen-year-old Avery West must solve an ancient puzzle in a deadly race across Europe. Forbidden love and code-breaking, masked balls and explosions, destiny and dark secrets collide in this romantic thriller, in the vein of a YA DaVinci Code. Avery West's newfound family can shut down Prada at the Champs-Elysees when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war.  They are part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Circle of Twelve, and Avery is their missing heir. If they discover who she is, some of them will want to use her as a pawn. Some will want her dead.  To thwart their plans, Avery must follow a trail of...