title: Ascendant: The Four Kingdoms (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 online where she writes for young readers, one of her works reaching close to half a million reads. 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
  
  
  Ascendant: The Four Kingdoms
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  APPRENTICE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright (C) 2018 by Maryam Durrani
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 1533350892
  
  
  ![/Users/maryamdurrani/Desktop/10796881_Alt02.jpg](../Images/image00377.jpeg)ISBN-13
  978-1533350893
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To my readers, who helped me g