{
    "id": 352366,
    "slug": "bound-by-blood-and-sand-becky-allen",
    "nstc": null,
    "title": "Bound by Blood and Sand",
    "subtitle": null,
    "collection_title": "Bound by Blood and Sand",
    "collection_part_number": "1",
    "annotation": null,
    "description": "Jae is a slave in a dying desert world. \n\nOnce verdant with water from a magical Well, the land is drying up, and no one remembers the magic needed to keep the water flowing. If a new source isn\u2019t found soon, the people will perish. Jae doesn\u2019t mind, in a way. By law, she is bound by a curse to obey every order given her, no matter how vile. At least in death, she\u2019ll be free. \n\nLord Elan\u2019s family rules the fading realm. He comes to the estate where Jae works, searching for the hidden magic needed to replenish the Well, but it\u2019s Jae who finds it, and she who must wield it. Desperate to save his realm, Elan begs her to use it to locate the Well. \n\nBut why would a slave\u2014abused, beaten, and treated as less than human\u2014want to save the system that shackles her? Jae would rather see the world burn. \n\nThough revenge clouds her vision, she agrees to help if the kingdom\u2019s slaves are freed. Then Elan\u2019s father arrives. The ruler\u2019s cruelty knows no limits. He is determined that the class system will not change\u2014and that Jae will remain a slave forever.",
    "imprint": null,
    "language_code": "eng",
    "original_language_code": null,
    "page_count": 304,
    "duration_seconds": null,
    "publication_date_first": "2016-01-01",
    "publication_date_latest": "2016-01-01",
    "cover_url": null,
    "editions": [],
    "ratings_count": 0,
    "read_count": 0,
    "review_count": 0,
    "favorite_count": 0,
    "reading_status_read_count": 0,
    "reading_status_reading_count": 0,
    "reading_status_want_to_read_count": 0,
    "rating_average": null,
    "ratings_distribution": {
        "1": 0,
        "2": 0,
        "3": 0,
        "4": 0,
        "5": 0
    },
    "created_at": "2025-09-19T13:26:32+00:00",
    "updated_at": "2025-11-03T00:28:41+00:00",
    "publisher": {
        "id": 4550,
        "slug": "delacorte-press",
        "name": "Delacorte Press",
        "created_at": "2025-09-19T13:08:55+00:00",
        "updated_at": "2025-09-19T15:04:39+00:00"
    },
    "contributors": [],
    "genres": [],
    "subjects": [],
    "campaigns": []
}