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Ita�TMs August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet is at a crossroads. This holiday with her parents should be a dream trip for the budding art historian. But all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life. Two hundred years before Khayyama�TMs summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has a��gifteda�\x9d her with favored status in his harem. In the present day, Khayyam begins to connect allusions to an enigmatic 19th-century Muslim woman whose path may have intersected with Alexandre Dumas, EugA ne Delacroix, and Lord Byron. Echoing across centuries, as one womana�TMs long-forgotten life is uncovered, anothera�TMs is transformed.
Age Range: 14 and up | Grade Level: 9-12 | Lexile Measure: NA