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Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend.

Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural.

But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will.

Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.

I'm loving this one so far.

8 chapters

(view spoiler)[ ha! I love her close crew so far
Dalila is hilarious but I also like how grounded and skeptical she is!
and Tanbu - he was lucky they arrived

but it also sucks they burned their chance to find out more information

I'm a bit nervous this Falco guy is just aiming to bring Amina out - and you have to wonder why. She must have either stolen something from him or hurt someone he loved.
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interested to see where it goes from here!

16 chapters

(view spoiler)[ well, so now we've got most of her crew together
and we know what happened to the one that's missing

because we just met her demon of a husband. ooops lol
I wonder if she will really be able to hide her daughter

and now they are going into a cave. I wonder if the daughter will actually want to go with them or if she likes adventuring and searching for the items she wanted (hide spoiler)]