Catherine Faris King
Catherine Faris King is a Lebanese-Irish-American writer. She would like to thank her parents and friends for their endless support. The Ninety-Ninth Bride is her first book.
“Sister, would you please tell me a story?”
Dunya is fifteen when her father, the Grand Vizier, gives her over to the mad Sultan for his bride. Ninety-eight Sultanas before Dunya have been executed, slaughtered at the break of dawn following their first night with their new husband. But on her own wedding night, the ninety-ninth bride finds help from the mysterious and beautiful Zahra, who proposes to tell the Sultan a story...
The Ninety-Ninth Bride is a story of sisters and magic, and a kingdom on the brink of disaster.