Softness gets you killed. Azhra, a young Azqára assassin, learned that before the contract that cost her an eye. But when a job goes wrong, she flees into the wilderness wounded, half-blind, and clinging to the only thing she has left: her mother’s lullaby. The wizard Ithráin finds her and offers the one thing Azhra fears more than violence: kindness. Under his care, she becomes his apprentice and begins building a life she never expected to have. Then a magical vault is breached. Something ancient is stolen and something far more dangerous binds itself to her. Azhra has spent her entire life trusting the instincts that kept her alive. Now she must decide whether those instincts are worth dying for. A Lullaby of Thieves and Tea is book one in the Of Sand and Silver saga, a cozy-but-dangerous adventure of found family, cursed artifacts, and a feral girl discovering that survival and living are not the same thing.