Two sisters become trapped in the underworld--and in the machinations of deities, shapeshifters, and ghouls--in this lush and dangerous Phoenician mythology-inspired fantasy.
Cristin lives in Florida with her family and dog..
She has worked as a copyeditor and taught writing at the university level.
A Shelf Awareness Galley Love of the Week Selection About author(s): Cristin Bishara is a writer of young adult fiction. and maybe kill the god of death himself.
To get home--and keep her sister safe--Sam will have to outwit beautiful shapeshifters, pose as a royal bride, sail the darkest sea...
And down here, the night never ends.
No one is who they say.
Nothing is what it seems.
Disturbing it condemns her and Rima to the Phoenician underworld, a place of wicked cities, burning cedar forests, poisoned feasts of milk and lemons, and an endless, windless ocean.
Because one is cursed, forbidden, the burial coin of a forgotten god.
But she shouldn\'t.
So when Sam\'s grandfather wills her the family valuables--a cache of Lebanese antiquities--she\'s desperate enough to try pawning them before Mom can.
Dad\'s dead, money\'s tight, and Mom disappears for days at a time.
Instead, they live with their maddeningly unreliable mother in a rundown trailer in Michigan.
Teenage sisters Samira and Rima aren\'t exactly living the dream.
Two sisters become trapped in the underworld--and in the machinations of deities, shapeshifters, and ghouls--in this lush and dangerous Phoenician mythology-inspired fantasy
