Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! The second entry in Freya Marske’s beloved The Last Binding trilogy, the queer historic fantasy collection that started with A Marvellous Light, is right here.
The most fascinating issues in Maud Blyth’s life have occurred to her brother Robin, however she’s prepared to hitch any trigger, particularly if it entails magical secrets and techniques that will threaten the entire of the British Isles. Bound for New York on the R.M.S. Lyric, she’s prepared for an journey.
What she truly finds is a lifeless physique, a disrespectful parrot, and a wonderful stranger in Violet Debenham, who’s all the things—a magician, an actress, a scandal—Maud has been educated to concern and has discovered to need. Surrounded by the open sea and a ship stuffed with loathsome, aristocratic suspects, they have to clear up a homicide and untangle a conspiracy that started generations earlier than them.
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