She swears to him that she’ll be alive the next day and to go be with Irsa, her younger sister.

Shahrzad al-Khayzuran is being readied for her wedding to the king when her father arrives.

In the prologue, the king, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid, gives some mysterious order after which rain starts pouring and the people of Rey rejoice.Meanwhile, as Reza (Shiva’s father) and the sultan of Parthia (Khalid’s uncle) join forces to take the kingdom of Khorasan from Khalid, Khalid vows to never hide from his city again. The city is destroyed because of the black magic Shazi’s father performed against it and Shazi ends up having to leave Rey with Tariq. However, gradually they both get to know each other and fall in love, but when Khalid leaves to see to the forces rising against him (thanks to Tariq), everything falls apart. Shazi volunteers to marry Khalid when her own best friend, Shiva, is taken and intends to kill the boy-king herself. Driven to depression after a miscarriage, Ava took her own life at dawn. The king of Khorasan has been cursed by his first wife’s, Ava, father to marry a hundred girls every evening and have them killed every dawn if he wants to avoid his city being taken from him and a thousandfold deaths. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets? She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart.

But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Add it: Goodreads Goodreads Summary: In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family.

The wrath and the dawn by renée ahdieh