The Jinn King and the Persian Princess

By Erik L Seabury

The desert keeps what you give it.
When Yasamin, daughter of a dying palace and a queen who governs by ceremony, walks out through the city gates and calls a name from a copper mirror, she expects power. She receives something far more dangerous: Zarif, the Jinn King of Flame ancient, brilliant, and entirely interested in watching her become whatever she is going to become.
What follows is not a simple bargain.
As her brother Kaveh plots to seize the throne through debt, conspiracy, and the slow erosion of everything Yasamin has built, and as the desert's ash-wraiths and iron-ring pacts and coastal mercenaries test the palace from outside, Yasamin must govern a city on two currencies at once: the visible kind, bread, labor, public naming, the cord around a man's wrist that marks his obligation to repair what he has broken, and the invisible kind, the favor of jinn and spirits and the ancient fire that answers when you know how to ask.
Zarif will teach her everything she is willing to learn. Some of it will cost her things she cannot predict. Some of it will make her exactly what she intended to be.
And some of it will simply be true, which is the hardest gift of all.
The Jinn King and the Persian Princess is a grimdark fantasy of governance and desire, of what it takes to build something that outlasts you, and of what the desert does with the stories you give it.
The fountain runs. The archive holds. The palace endures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZDHKVGZ
• ISBN13: 9798195020149
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"