Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri academia and her prodigiously talented five-year-old

and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son

Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller

first weeks

and contemplates her age

punishment is swift and Ivy is sent to China

Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri academia and her prodigiously talented five-year-old*Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Books Of All Time A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's lush, dazzling, Mughal India inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Ambhan Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an