The Scorpion Queen

Mina Fears


Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars
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[?] · 8 ratings · 320 pages · Published: 28 Jan 2025

The Scorpion Queen by Mina Fears
Deep within the imperial palace in Timbuktu, Aminata has suffered a devastating loss. The daughter of a prosperous salt merchant. Amie finds her life is cruelly overturned in a matter of months. At sixteen, she is disinherited, framed for a scandalous crime, and forced to serve Princess Mariama of Mali. Mariama's father, Emperor Suleyman, has created a series of impossible trials for his daughter's suitors. When they fail, he publicly boils them alive, littering Mariama's path to marriage with ninety-nine corpses.

At first, Amie's life at court is drudgery—the chores are difficult, the servants despise her, and Princess Mariama is prone to mood swings—but the more she learns about the princess's circumstances, the closer the two girls become. Amie and her intended, Kader, plan to escape Timbuktu and make a new life far away from the shadow of death that has fallen upon the emperor's court, but Amie finds herself increasingly drawn to the princess in ways she doesn't understand.

When a mysterious discovery forces her hand, she must choose between fleeing with the boy she loves and helping the princess to end the trials forever. Amie will need to draw on all her strength and courage to make the perilous journey through the desert to seek the aid of exiled god in a final desperate attempt to take charge of her own destiny.
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