Leila

In besieged Granada, where music, rumor, and defiance still flicker beneath the shadow of Ferdinand and Isabel's armies, power is divided among kings, warriors, prophets, and the secret wounds of the oppressed. At the Alhambra, the feared enchanter Almamen moves with unsettling authority between the proud prince Muza and the melancholy Boabdil, the last Moorish king in Spain, whose luxury, doubt, and longing for control cannot halt the collapse around him. Their encounters braid politics with superstition, faith with prejudice, and royal weakness with the promise of hidden knowledge. Amid this turmoil, a quieter but equally dangerous story unfolds in the moonlit gardens. Muza's forbidden love for the beautiful, educated Leila is shattered by a javelin attack and by the revelation of her Hebrew heritage. Her stern father, a grieving man of secret history and fierce vengeance, demands that she renounce the Moor and curse his people. Behind his severity lies a life of disguise, occult labor, and bitter calculation, as he weighs revenge against survival and looks to shifting rulers for justice. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.