Son of Qasirah

KJ James is eighteen, frying catfish at King Fish off Campbellton Road in southwest Atlanta, when a cream-colored envelope with a wax seal arrives at his mother's apartment and rewrites his entire life. His father is Tariq al-Rashid - the newly crowned Sultan of Qasirah, a small, oil-wealthy Gulf state. His grandfather, the iron-fisted ruler who forbade his parents' relationship, is dead. And under Qasiri succession law, KJ is recognized blood.
Pulled from the only world he's ever known, KJ lands in a marble palace where every hallway has a camera and every conversation has a cost. His father is cold and calculated. The court advisor wants him gone. And Nasreen Farid - the brilliant, magnetic woman assigned to teach him Arabic, prayer, and protocol - is the one person who tells him the truth. What grows between them will threaten everything.
Son of Qasirah is a literary novel about identity, inheritance, and what it means to carry two worlds inside one body. It is a story about fathers who fail and try again, mothers who lie out of love, and sons who must decide what to keep and what to let go.