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Sahira Javaid

Sahira Javaid (she/her) is a poetess and author from Ottawa. She writes fantasy steeped in adventure and fantastical worlds. When she’s not writing she can be found watching YouTube, daydreaming about her next story and making others smile and laugh every chance she gets.

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The price of a soul is another soul’s fate.

Be swept away in this unique fantasy debut from Sahira Javaid. A spellbinding adventure of belonging, family and hope. Perfect for fans of InuYasha, Children of Blood and Bone and The Candle and The Flame.

Nezha Zaman considers her gift to control fire a dangerous secret. A secret that unravels when she encounters a vengeful shadow jinni in a maze garden that has been stalking her family, and knows about her power. Weeks after seeing the demonic being, Nezha is torn from her world and transported to another dimension.

Nezha learns from two unicorns that the dimension is her family’s roots, and that she carries a fragment of an angel’s shattered soul. The three must work together to find the soul’s shards in a land teeming with shape-shifting jinn. If Nezha fails to complete its soul, the corrupted Iron prince at her heels and the jinn will her shatter her soul next.

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