Sheherazade's Lantern

Rashid the Mapmaker draws cities that change overnight. Yueya the astronomer discovers his maps match a sky that hasn't risen yet. Together they find the Brass City — built by King Solomon's djinn.

A city is forgetting itself. Karim meets Nadia the Spice Merchant, who offers him a taste of every life he never lived.

A haunted swordsmith. A boy seeking revenge. An unfinished blade on the wall. Khalid keeps a secret that the forge fire cannot burn away.

Once a century, a door appears in the Caravanserai. Inside waits Dunyazad, Scheherazade's sister, with a book of blank pages that holds every unspoken truth.

Deep in the Empty Quarter, Karim hears the dunes singing. Layla holds a single grain of sand that reveals what he has been searching for his entire life.

Nadia finds a black peppercorn that opens a door to the Black Bazaar — a market that exists between worlds. She and Rashid enter together, and discover that the most precious thing in the shadow market isn't for sale: it's the memory of something you lost before you were born.