Within the Heart of Wicked Creatures

What if the darkest curse was your greatest power?Born during the blood moon and cursed with the dangerous ability to manipulate other people's souls, Priya has to hide her power or face death.When Priya wins a place to attend the country's elite school in Kuwatta, her curse is revealed to be a gift and everything changes. With a centuries old guerilla war still raging in Awaran and a strange danger lurking in the heart of the Kuwatta fortress, Priya must choose between her country and her heart.A fast-paced and dynamic story of belonging and survival. "But Awaran was all she knew. The only land whose earth she had trodden, whose air she had breathed and whose water she had tasted. Awaran was the land that had given her life, the land she fought for. She knew nothing else. Why, then, did she still feel like a traveller without a destination?"

Rima Orie began writing on Wattpad, where her stories gathered thousands of views, and in 2018 she was selected out of 300 entries as the winner of the Moon Uitgeverij YA competition to publish her first novel, THE ROGUE PRINCE. This was nominated for the Young Adult Boek van het Jaar, the youth literature prize in Ghent, Belgium (known as De Kleine Cervantes), the Hebban (a Dutch bookseller chain) debut novel prize and the Dutch Book Week for Youth list. Her second novel, IN THE CURSED HART, published in 2022 and she is working on the follow-up. Alongside her writing career, she works in The Hague for the Ministry of Safety and Justice. @rimaoriebooks on Instagram and @rimaorie on TikTok.

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