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Sands and Starlight (2019)

by Charlotte E. English
(#3 in Wonder Tales)

Distantly upon the horizon, bejewelled light shone like stars; tantalising, inviting.

Then the palace-in-glass was gone, fading away into the velvet night like a snuffed lamp.

Between the sands and the starlight, ancient powers rise, and the oldest of tales becomes new.

An old sorcerer travels the starlight bazaars: cursed and magic-blighted, he has glass where his heart should be.

A half-jinni enchantress seeks her missing son: daughter of a fallen king, hers is a great and daunting power.

A trio of camels walks the sands: loyal sisters in service, there is more to their past than meets the eye.

What unites these tales (and many more) is a marvel of sorcery and beauty: a great palace of ensorcelled glass, glimpsed only under the stars, and vanishing with the dawn…