num_pages: 342
description: Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when youre only seventeen?Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction she has earned only the scorn and fear of her fathers kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits her whole world is torn apart when her father the Raja arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akarans queen she finds her voice and power. As Amars wife she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. DesireBut Akaran has its own secretsthousands of locked doors gardens of glass and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon Maya suspects her life is in danger. Yet who besides her husband can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the mostincluding herself.Listening Length: 9 hours and 22 minutes
language: English
title: The Star-Touched Queen
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin