It started as playful, if barbed, banter before rising to a fateful wager with a most notorious rake--the Captain of the Guard, Jalal al-Khoury--who may have finally met his match in a lovely, if haughty, handmaiden, Despina. But she, too, seems to have met her match in the handsome Jalal. What begins as a tempestuous battle of will and wit in short order becomes a passionate affair spurred on by tragedy of the worst kind.
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ISBN:0399547738
ISBN:9780399547737
Physical Description:remote 1 online resource
Publisher:New York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.