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Qanat
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 25 2025
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Beneath a pyramid in the desert lies a land no one has ever returned from.
Its name is Qanat. It's an underground kingdom lit by giant diamonds, with a crystal river that runs all the way to the sea. Its people are born immune to venom. Snakes are their guards and scorpions are their soldiers. On their third birthday, every child is lowered into a pit of snakes to prove they belong.
Faham is a young jeweller's apprentice, thrown out of his kingdom for a theft he didn't commit. When his camel dies near the old pyramid, he follows it through a door in the stones and finds a world he can't explain, and a girl named Isha who doesn't know whether to save him or kill him.
Isha was the child the snakes refused to bite. She's about to become one of Qanat's four masters, and she's carrying a secret that could tear her people apart.
Faham leaves Qanat with a pocket full of diamonds and a promise never to speak of it. But greedy kings ask questions, and a promise is hard to keep with a blade at your throat.
Told from two sides, Faham's and Isha's, Qanat is a fantasy adventure about loyalty, sacrifice, and what it costs to protect a home the world isn't supposed to know exists.
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