Priya was one of the maidservants sent to serve the princess and her caretaker. Malini was the princess of a powerful empire, but she was imprisoned by her brother for refusing to burn on the pyre. The story followed a large cast of characters but mostly focused on two women whose fates intertwined within a crumbling ancient temple. I definitely recommend it to any fantasy fans!! I can’t wait to find out what happens next in the sequel, The Oleander Sword. The Jasmine Throne was a beautifully written, epic fantasy tale that begins and ends in flames.

Together, they will change the fate of an empire. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family.

One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides.īut when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. Priya is a maidservant, one among several who make the treacherous journey to the top of the Hirana every night to clean Malini’s chambers. Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless waters - but is now little more than a decaying ruin. Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother.

The jasmine throne by tasha suri