The City Beyond the Stars

byZohra Nabi

Set in a lavish world of sorceresses, alchemists, jinn and flying carpets, this spine-tingling middle-grade book is perfect for fans of Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Sophie Anderson.Confined to a besieged Settlement, Yara longs to free her mother from the alchemists in the City of Zehaira. When Yara receives a message from her mother to find the hidden residence of the Grand High Sorceress, it sets her on a different path.Yara and her friends set off on an adventure to find her mothers home, and to seek out a secret magic that her mother was working on magic so powerful that it could defeat the alchemists once and for all. But the wicked alchemist Omair Firaaz is on her trail and will stop at nothing to gain the power himselfCan Yara and her friends find the magic that could be the answer to everything before it destroys them all?

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