About
A.S. Thornton has evolved from book blogger (at “the bandar blog”) to writer with a particular fondness for writing forbidden love in ancient deserts. When not writing, she’s doctoring up dogs and cats. You’ll never find animals at the center of her writing, though, because those fictional worlds don’t have veterinarians and her literal brain can’t accept that the poor critters would be without parasite prevention.
Featured Work
Daughter of the Salt King
An epic, romantic fantasy where the desert meets the sea, about the magic of wishes—and their unintended consequences.
Emel is the Salt King’s daughter, yet she has less freedom than even her father's slaves. She must navigate not only court intrigue and a mounting rebellion but her own heart after she discovers the secret to the Salt King’s tyranny over the desert—a wish-granting jinni who is as much a slave as Emel herself, and whose wishes from his own long past are coming back to haunt the desert with unintended consequences.
