The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire

by Linda Lafferty

Book Overview

Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die... In a gender reversal of Scheherazade in The Arabian Nights: Tales from a 1,001 Nights , Ottoman princess Esma Sultan seduces a different Christian lover each night, only to have him drowned in the morning. The Sultaness's true passion burns only for the Christian-born...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147780529X
• ISBN13: 9781477805299
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.2"