Beneath a Desert Moon Entertainment_Gift_Guide from the elegant banquet verse

from the elegant banquet verse of aristocrats to the “poems of the frontier guardsmen

[Montefiore] really tells you what the life of the city has been like and why it means so much

Debut author Aminah Mae Safi's honest and smart young adult novel is about how easy it can be to hurt those around you even if—especially if—you love them

But before she can

and recollections from friends and former colleagues

Beneath a Desert Moon Entertainment_Gift_Guide from the elegant banquet verseBeneath a Desert Moon, a romantic fantasy set in a vast desert world where justice is harsh, their love is forbidden, and the line between enemies and allies blurs in the sands of fate. Rumi, daughter of the great Aba and heir to the throne, from the lush rainforests of Arryvia, is kidnapped by Callum, a hardened desert soldier, and brought to stand trial in the merciless heart of Yetoben. Accused of crimes she didn't commit, Rumi faces certain death