Author Description

Always there was the threat of the rope. Someone was going to hang. There was once a tower. From it, a Witch King ruled all of Persia, casting shadows and spreading a sickness where people simply faded away. There was a prophecy foretold, about two babies and the rope that would swing between them. When the girl Rapunzel was born, she was magicked away, leaving behind a grieving mother and her shepherd husband. Yet there was also a boy, and he would grow up to scale towers. He would grow up to fight against dark shadows. This was the fairytale their father had always told Mina and her sister Leila. When the people started protesting against the government in the street, Mina soon realized, that the fairytale was a premonition. As the sisters are swept up into the unrest and into one of the most notorious prisons in Persia, Mina sees the fairytale for what it is—a mirror—to the isolation they must face in the tower, the threat of the noose, and the white magic of shared blood. Mina is left to discover, that the ties that exist between family, may be the only way to keep from swinging. Half fairytale, half fiction, Rapunzel Must Die is a powerhouse of a novel about unity, family, and the magic to be found in both. Inspired by the true events of 2022. From the award-winning author of, 1000 Nights: Death's Love Letter to Afghanistan