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Blood and Verse: The Antarah Saga A Historical Novel of War, Honor, Love, and Poetry in Pre-Islamic Arabia
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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A man denied by birth. A legend earned by blood and verse.
Born to a proud chieftain and an enslaved Abyssinian woman, Antarah ibn Shaddad grows up trapped between two worlds. The tribe will not fully claim him, yet the desert will demand from him the courage of a warrior.
When wolves come for his herd, a thirteen-year-old boy learns that courage is not something a man inherits. It is something he proves.
Years later, when his tribe's survival depends on the sword arm they spent nineteen years refusing to claim, his father finally speaks the words that change everything:
Charge, Antarah, and you are free.
But freedom is only the beginning.
As war consumes the Arabian desert, Antarah must fight for honor, confront a brother who doubts his place, earn the respect of a tribe that once dismissed him, and win the woman who saw the man beneath the judgment of his birth.
Along the way, his sword makes him a warrior-and his words make him unforgettable.
Blood and Verse is a sweeping work of historical fiction inspired by the legendary life of Antarah ibn Shaddad, one of pre-Islamic Arabia's celebrated warrior-poets.
A story of identity, honor, love, war, poetry, and the price of becoming a legend.
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