The Last Binding Series - Book 2
A Restless Truth
“Aristocracy, magic, and murder overlap on pretty nearly every page of this Sapphic shipboard romance…Marske’s world-building skills dazzle, and her prose does, too; the book offers a breathtaking romp of a plot and a sense of wondrous possibility.”
New York Times Book Review
A November 2022 LibraryReads Pick
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
An Indie Next List Pick
An AudioFile Editors’ Pick of the Month
Among longlisted titles for BookPage Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among longlisted titles for BookPage Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for Hugo Award - Nominee
Among longlisted titles for BookPage Best Books of the Year, 2022
Among shortlisted titles for Hugo Award - Nominee
A Restless Truth is the second entry in Freya Marske's beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light.
"Narrator Aysha Kala delivers action and romance in this sequel to A MARVELLOUS LIGHT."- AudioFile Magazine
"Sublime prose, top-notch world-building, delightfully queer."-TJ Klune, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, on A Marvellous Light
Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance!
Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plenty of it when she volunteered to serve as an old lady's companion on an ocean liner, in order to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy that began generations ago.
What she didn't expect was for the old lady in question to turn up dead on the first day of the voyage. Now she has to deal with a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham, who's also returning home to England. Violet is everything that Maud has been trained to distrust yet can't help but desire: a magician, an actress, and a magnet for scandal.
Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of suspects, Maud and Violet must first drop the masks that they've both learned to wear before they can unmask a murderer and somehow get their hands on a magical object worth killing for-without ending up dead in the water themselves.
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