Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia

Sitara, also known as Fatima, grows up in the city of Tus after being sold into a scholar’s household, where she learns that knowledge can be a weapon even when you have no power of your own. When the Mongols invade, she is captured by Tolui’s forces and taken far from everything she knew, stripped of status, safety, and choice. In the Mongol palace, Sitara searches for a place where her mind matters, and she draws the attention of Töregene, the sixth wife of Ögedei, a woman with her own complicated anger toward the empire’s direction. Sitara’s survival depends on reading people faster than they can read her, turning science, medicine, and strategy into leverage inside a court where one mistake can erase you. As her influence grows, revenge stops being a single goal and becomes a dangerous game of alliances, secrets, and decisions that can shake the empire from the inside.