Court of Lions

Amani must make a choice between revolution, family, and love in the second book in the series that has “the potential to be the next big thing in scifi/fantasy” (SLJ, starred review)!

Two identical girls, one a princess, the other a rebel. Who will rule the empire?

After being swept up into the brutal Vathek court, Amani, the ordinary girl from a distant moon forced to serve as the half-Vathek princess’s body double, has been forced into complete isolation. The cruel but complex princess, Maram, with whom Amani had cultivated a tenuous friendship, discovered Amani’s connection to the rebellion and has cornered her into silence, and if Amani crosses Maram once more, she will be revealed to everyone in the court.

Amani is desperate to continue helping the rebellion, to fight for her people’s freedom. But she must make a devastating decision: Will she continue to aid them and put her family — and herself — in mortal danger? And can she remain separated, forever, from Maram’s fiancé, Idris, with whom she shares a dangerous attraction?

Court of Lions is the stunning sequel to Somaiya Daud’s debut, Mirage, the first in her Mirage trilogy.