Jin helps her get away from Commander Naguib and his Gallan soldiers. in shortĪmani is trying to get out of her awful little town when she runs into Jin. If you can’t remember what happened in Rebel of the Sands and you need a refresher, then you’re in the right place. Read a full summary of Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton below. or that he'd help her unlock the powerful truth of who she really is. And she'd never have predicted she'd fall in love with him. But in all her years spent dreaming of leaving home, she never imagined she'd gallop away on a mythical horse, fleeing the murderous Sultan's army, with a fugitive who's wanted for treason. When she meets Jin, a mysterious and devastatingly handsome foreigner, in a shooting contest, she figures he’s the perfect escape route. But there's nothing mystical or magical about Dustwalk, the dead-end town that Amani can't wait to escape from.ĭestined to wind up 'wed or dead,' Amani’s counting on her sharpshooting skills to get her out of Dustwalk. Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mystical beasts still roam the wild and barren wastes, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinni still practice their magic. In Traitor to the Throne, the only certainty is that everything will change.Add it: Goodreads Goodreads Summary: She’s more gunpowder than girl-and the fate of the desert lies in her hands.

But the longer she remains, the more she questions whether the Sultan is really the villain she’s been told he is, and who’s the real traitor to her sun-bleached, magic-filled homeland.įorget everything you thought you knew about Miraji, about the rebellion, about Djinn and Jin and the Blue-Eyed Bandit. Desperate to uncover the Sultan’s secrets by spying on his court, she tries to forget that Jin disappeared just as she was getting closest to him, and that she’s a prisoner of the enemy. When Amani finds herself thrust into the epicenter of the regime-the Sultan’s palace-she’s determined to bring the tyrant down. Now she’s fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne. Gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom.