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Lada and brother Radu, Wallachian hostages in the Ottoman court, befriend the sultan's son, Mehmed. As the three become embroiled in political intrigue, their characters and dynamics are complicated and deepened by a love triangle and the solace Radu finds in Islam. Brutally determined, fiercely protective warrior-girl Lada--White's imagining of a young, female Vlad the Impaler--is perhaps historically implausible, but utterly compelling. Glos.