title: Assassin: The Battle for Astodia (The Assassin Series)
author: Maryam Durrani
description: Maryam Durrani is a young author from Virginia, USA. She wrote her first fiction novel, Assassin, at age thirteen, publishing a few years later. She also wrote Ascendant at age sixteen, the second in the trilogy. Now, Maryam has followed it up with the third book in the series: Apprentice. She is well known on Wattpad where she writes for young readers, one of her works reaching close to a million reads.
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  ALSO BY MARYAM DURRANI
  
  
  
  
  
  Assassin: The Battle for Astodia
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ASCENDANT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Ascendant
  
  
  Visit [www.maryamdurrani.com](http://www.maryamdurrani.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover design by Raquel Neira
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright (C) 2016 by Maryam Durrani
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 1516863003
  
  
  ![](../Images/image00326.jpeg)ISBN-13: 978-1516863006
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To my brother