{"product_id":"queen-killer-paperback","title":"Queen Killer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKyra Lumpkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTananarive Due meets N.K. Jemisin, with Octavia Butler's body-politics, Nalo Hopkinson's diasporic myth, and the tragic romantic gravity of Kennedy Ryan at her darkest.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman throws her son onto a fence and her daughter into a fountain. Afterward, she requests a cold drink and a replacement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe daughter requires a grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou will understand the woman before this story is finished. Take no comfort in that. Understanding has never made a terrible thing less terrible. It merely leaves you without the refuge of ignorance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI could tell you of the humans taking a land that does not belong to them. I could tell you of a king remade upon a human table, who aids the invaders and calls it progress. I could tell you of the new wife who knows nothing of the family buried beneath her marriage and remains certain she has chosen the perfect man. I could tell you of the queen who laid the children she ordered dead within her own courtyard, because she deemed every other patch of earth unworthy of holding them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are not the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story is a child who holds a power the gods withheld for a thousand years. A girl capable of wearing every face upon this world, with Soulaan's deliverance resting in her tiny hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the final page, she will have no family, no home, and a price on her back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that is just where she needs to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing from African American history and folklore-and the depths of her own imagination-Kyra Lumpkin has written a saga of conquest, family, power, and survival. Defiant of categorization and populated by unforgettable women, Queen Killer is familiar, profound, and Black as f**k.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 458\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 19, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLarge Print:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45894199967879,"sku":"9798295896903","price":30.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/nAOt2-8NnP9798295896903.webp?v=1789840294","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/queen-killer-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}