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To protect her homeland, one queen must fight her people s historic enemy once and for all.

Abbakka Chowta never expected to be queen. The youngest of Ullal s two rajkumaris, Abbakka has spent years in rigorous combat training to become her sister s blade. But when the monstrous Porcugi attempt to lay claim to Ullal, Abbakka s world and fate are upended.

The Porcugi giant half-men, half-snakes who attack from the sea haven t been seen in Ullal since their failed invasion more than fifty years ago. But now, they re back with vengeance and a choice: pay their tithes or suffer total devastation. Soon, Abbakka s definitions of strength, subterfuge, and statecraft are put to the test. Will marriage to a neighboring king give her the resources she needs to protect her people . . . or will she watch her homeland be crushed beneath the waves of would-be colonizers?

A lush historical fantasy that reimagines the Portuguese attacks on South India in the 1500s and the fierce real-life queen s story, Burn the Sea is an electrifying exaltation of female power and the value of freedom.

REVIEWS:

Burn the Sea is a rich and beautiful debut, a gorgeous feminist epic with a ferocious heart Tasha Suri, World Fantasy Award

winning author of The Jasmine Throne

A gift of a novel filled with innovative magic, historical treats, and a maze of intrigue, with a truly satisfying spin on colonial narratives by making the Porcugi literal monsters. Best of all is Abbakka herself, crafted with such beautiful care into a protagonist by turns fierce and romantic, resilient and grief-stricken, loving and unyielding Vaishnavi Patel, author of Kaikeyi

Monsters and maritime invasion, a queen who refuses to bow and an empire that refuses to leave: Burn the Sea understood the assignment. A+ in History. A+ in Fantasy Gourav Mohanty, author of Sons of Darkness

With its lyrical tautness...this epic tale possesses the rare ability to make the past feel dangerously alive and to remind us that the stories we inherit can be reclaimed, rewritten, and set ablaze.' Rochelle Potkar, prize-winning poet and author of The Fabric Goddesses

Burn the Sea throbs with heart, grit and urgency. Prashanth Srivatsa, author of The Spice Gate

The sort of hold-your-breath storytelling that will keep you reading long into the night Andrea Stewart, author of the Drowning Empire and Hollow Covenant trilogies

Delectable and honest, ferocious and brave...a searing arrow aimed true Shen Tao, author of The Poet Empress

Clever, romantic, and intricately plotted...featuring a South Indian queen whose mind is sharper than her blade Tanaz Bhathena, author of Hunted by the Sky

A vibrant homage to the warrior queen that should win Tewari many fans Publishers Weekly