Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. Khan

*Review Contributed By Jan Farnworth, Staff Reviewer* Portal fantasy with heart Faisal and the other missing children are there, too, and if Nura can’t find a way to help them all escape, they’ll be bound to work for the hotel forever. Yet they aren’t nearly as treacherous as her mother made them out to be, because Nura is invited to a luxury jinn hotel, where she’s given everything she could ever imagine and more.īut there’s a dark truth lurking beneath all that glitter and gold, and when Nura crosses the owner’s son and is banished to the working quarters, she realizes she isn’t the only human who’s ended up in the hotel’s clutches.

Instead, she finds herself at the entrance to a strange world of purple skies and pink seas-a portal to the opulent realm of jinn, inhabited by the trickster creatures from her mother’s cautionary tales. Nura refuses to believe it and shovels her way through the dirt hoping to find him.

Her plan backfires when the mines collapse and four kids, including her best friend, Faisal, are claimed dead. Local rumor says there’s buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her family’s life forever. But it’s not just the extra rupees in her pocket Nura is after. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things-to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet gulab.

Nura and the Immortal Palace by M.T. Khan