Origin is a beautifully told, electric new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever. As they fall in love, they begin to piece together the truth about Pia’s origin-a truth with nothing less than deadly consequences that will change their lives forever. Unable to resist, she continues sneaking out to see him. Free in the jungle for the first time in her life, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. But then one night she finds a hole in the impenetrable fence that surrounds her sterile home. For as long as she can remember, Pia’s greatest desire has been to fulfill their expectations. Now those scientists have begun to challenge her, with the goal of training her to carry on their dangerous work. She has been bred for no other purpose, genetically engineered to be immortal and raised by a team of scientists in a secret compound hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest. She is meant to start a new race, a line of descendants who will bring an end to death. When saving herself means betraying him, Zahra must decide once and for all: is winning her freedom worth losing her heart? As time unravels and her enemies close in, Zahra finds herself suspended between danger and desire in this dazzling retelling of the Aladdin story from acclaimed author Jessica Khoury.

But when the King of the Jinn offers Zahra a chance to be free of her lamp forever, she seizes the opportunity-only to discover she is falling in love with Aladdin. She must disguise herself to stay alive, using ancient shape-shifting magic, until her new master has selected his three wishes. When Aladdin discovers Zahra''s jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn''t seen in hundreds of years-a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra''s very existence is illegal. Maas, author of the New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series 'This is Aladdin like you''ve never imagined.'-Renée Ahdieh, author of The Wrath and the Dawn She is the most powerful Jinni of all. a rare, glittering jewel of a novel.'-Sarah J. 'Lush, romantic, and exquisitely written.

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