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    "description": "As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom \u2026 until the kingdom is conquered by enemy forces and she finds herself an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his irascible father across the vast Mongol Empire. On the run, with adversaries on all sides and an endless journey ahead, Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks\u2019 exile to return home, a plan that becomes increasingly fraught as her feelings for Khalaf evolve into a hopeless love.\n\nJinghua\u2019s already dicey prospects take a downward turn when Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great Khan. As beautiful as she is cunning, Turandokht requires all potential suitors to solve three impossible riddles to win her hand\u2014and if they fail, they die.\n\nJinghua has kept her own counsel well, but with Khalaf\u2019s kingdom\u2014and his very life\u2014on the line, she must reconcile the hard truth of her past with her love for a boy who has no idea what she\u2019s capable of ... even if it means losing him to the girl who\u2019d sooner take his life than his heart.\n\nThe Bird and the Blade is a lush, powerful story of life and death, battles and riddles, lies and secrets from debut author Megan Bannen.",
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