A former child-slave turned escort-assassin is pulled into a desert war and deadly politics beside a fifteen-year-old girl and her oracle brother.
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A former child-slave turned escort-assassin is pulled into a desert war and deadly politics beside a fifteen-year-old girl and her oracle brother.
When Hasheem, a legendary male-escort-turned-assassin finally escapes the city that enslaved him as a child, he finds himself trapped in the centuries-long war between his nomadic race of desert warriors and an empire that seeks to rule them. There, a new set of shackles awaits him in the form of a fifteen-year-old girl and her oracle brother whose agenda plunges him into the blood sport of power and politics. As warfare exacts its price and the line between good and evil gets put to the test, t...
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Male-escort past central; sexual exploitation and adult intimacy themes
Assassin violence, warfare, and political blood sport throughout
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Oracle brother and prophetic framing; limited overt religion
Oracle powers and prophetic elements recur in the plot
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Empire vs nomads; power, politics, and war are central
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Child enslavement; sexual exploitation; coercion; wartime cruelty
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