A Stranger To Her Blood: Palace, Prince, and 1941

A Cambodian-American historian wakes up in the body of an assassin sent to kill a king she has spent six years studying... She is carrying the vial. She is not going to use it.A PhD candidate researching erased women of colonial Cambodia falls asleep holding a centuries-old devata figurine - and wakes in Phnom Penh, 1940, inside the body of a trained operative placed in King Sisowath Monivong's royal household with orders to poison the king.Leang knows the historical record cold: the dates, the deaths, the diplomatic correspondence. None of it prepared her for the king himself, or for the body's muscle memory running assassination assessments every time she enters a room. She hides the vial. She starts taking notes. And she is pulled - through archive sessions, border maps, and twelve minutes of shared silence at a lotus pond - into something she cannot file in any professional category with the Second King who is already investigating the plot she arrived to complete. Set against the Franco-Thai War, the Japanese ultimatum, and Cambodia's approaching territorial loss.A Stranger to Her Blood is a historical romantic thriller about what it costs to refuse the thing you were sent to do - and what gets built in the space that refusal opens.For readers of The Bronze Horseman, The Miniaturist, and All the Light We Cannot See.

Pagina's: 549, Paperback, Independently published