Dawn happens to be one of the most romantic times of the day since the creation of this world but it is not the case in Khorasan. After books like The Damned and The Beautiful Renee Ahdieh creates a marvelous suspense tale. In this story Khalid the new caliph of the state is just an eighteen year old boy and as a young boy he possesses the oddest of habits. At every night he orders his soldiers to bring a new bride for him and after midnight that girl is slaughtered thus unable to see the dawn.
Every girl of the state knows that it would be her time soon and the next day her dead body will return from the palace. Not only the girls but the parents of every girl in town are scared of the deadly fate of their daughter. In this scenario Shahrzad a teenage girl takes a bold decision and presents herself as a volunteer for the caliph. Whole town gets amazed but the girl has an agenda of her own to fulfill. She wants to take revenge from the caliph because he killed her best friend the previous day.
But for the execution of her plan she needs time and has to survive after dawn. By using her intelligence the girl did survive after the dawn and amazes everyone in the kingdom. Later however she realizes that she cannot avenge her friend because the caliph is not the type of person she thought him to be. Khalid is rather a loveable boy and thus there is something more attached to the killing.
Shahrzad thus starts to dig deeper into the matter so that she can reach the root of the problem and stop this madness forever. Ariana Delawari grieved sound in narration plays with our minds, we along with Shahrzad start exploring the palace for clues about the truth.
The narrator is horrendous.