This story serves as a backstory filler for Tadek, one of the khayalar from Rowland’s first book, A Taste of Gold and Iron. It’s very sweet—ritualistic, formal, and heart-wrenching in the way that only fantasy novels, highly focused on found families and deep emotional connections, can be. As noted in the blurb, Tadek met the late Crown Princess Mihrişah many years ago and immediately fell into khayalar-love with her, and he hasn’t really examined what that could mean for his present life. It falls to our […]