num_pages: 26
description: It started as playful if barbed banter before rising to a fateful wager with a most notorious rakethe Captain of the Guard Jalal al-Khourywho may have finally met his match in a lovely if haughty handmaiden Despina. But she too seems to have met her match in the handsome Jalal. What begins as a tempestuous battle of will and wit in short order becomes a passionate affair spurred on by tragedy of the worst kind.
language: English
title: The Moth & the Flame
publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers