When she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable djinn, Nahri was whisked from her home in Cairo and thrust into the royal court of Daevabad. She quickly discovered she would need all her grifter instincts to survive there. Daevabad is entrenched in the dark aftermath of a devastating battle, and Nahri knows she's being watched by a king who rules from the throne that once belonged to her family. Ali has been exiled for daring to defy his father and relies on the abilities which unpredictable water spirits gifted him. But in doing so, he threatens to unearth a terrible secret his family has long kept buried.