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1312, West Africa. As the daughter of the king's despised foreign wife, Tiyya has never been accepted as a true princess. When the king departs on an expedition to discover lands across the Atlantic ocean, Tiyya is left behind and must make her way to the court of the king's successor, Mansa Musa. There a mysterious noblewoman takes her in, promising to elevate her to the royal status she has always craved. But all is not as it seems, and Tiyya soon stumbles onto a plot to assassinate Mansa Musa and his heirs. Together with a deaf servant girl and an apprentice bard with stage fright, she must find out who is behind the plot before she becomes its next victim. Along the way, Tiyya learns how to listen to her heart and value true friendship wherever it is found.

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Julia Kurnia has traveled all over the world, learning the languages and living with local families in India, Senegal, Kenya, Cuba, and Indonesia. In her twenties she leveraged the early spread of the internet to found Zidisha, an online platform for people in low-income countries to raise funding to start businesses or go to college. Today she lives in Virginia, where she founded Nautilus Homeschool, a literature-based homeschooling curriculum, and devours books alongside her two sons, who are also writers. In her free time she enjoys meditation, martial arts, and long-distance running.

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