She must disguise herself to stay alive, using ancient shape-shifting magic, until her new master has selected his three wishes.īut when the King of the Jinn offers Zahra a chance to be free of her lamp forever, she seizes the opportunity-only to discover she is falling in love with Aladdin. Their love will shake the world… When Aladdin discovers Zahra’s jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn’t seen in hundreds of years-a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra’s very existence is illegal. In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro, Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus, but its creators, who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury Blurb:
After a narrow escape, they uncover the chilling truth behind the lion’s silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area-and eliminate life as they know it. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate.īut soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything she’s ever known about the natural world. It’s up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. But is eternal life worth living if you can’t spend it with the one you love? Origin is a beautifully told, electric new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever.
As they fall in love, they begin to piece together the truth about Pia’s origin-a truth with nothing less than deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.
Unable to resist, she continues sneaking out to see him. Free in the jungle for the first time in her life, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. But then one night she finds a hole in the impenetrable fence that surrounds her sterile home. Now those scientists have begun to challenge her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work.įor as long as she can remember, Pia’s greatest desire has been to fulfill their expectations. She has been bred for no other purpose, genetically engineered to be immortal and raised by a team of scientists in a secret compound hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. She is meant to start a new race, a line of descendants who will bring an end to death.
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