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Two Houses, One Blood: A Novel of the War of al-Basus: A Historical Epic of Love, Blood, Power, and Revenge
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General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Two Houses, One Blood is a historical novel of love, kinship, power, and revenge set in pre-Islamic Arabia.
When Kulaib ibn Rabi'ah rises to become one of the most powerful chiefs of his age, his authority is built on a principle he believes is simple: a promise must mean something, a boundary must hold, and a man must never yield simply because the cost of standing firm is difficult.
Then a camel crosses that boundary.
What follows is not a war born in a single moment, but a catastrophe assembled over years-through marriage, rivalry, loyalty, wounded pride, and the impossible demands of family. At the center of it stand two houses bound together by marriage and blood, and the brothers, wives, sons, and friends forced to choose between the people they love and the debts they believe they owe.
Based on the ancient Arabic tradition of the War of al-Basus, this novel reimagines one of the most enduring blood feuds of pre-Islamic Arabia as a story of people rather than legends: a powerful chief becoming trapped by his own principles, a wife caught between two families, and a brother whose grief becomes a war.
The war may begin with a single act.
The debt never does.
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