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Synopsis
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. 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.
A Restless Truth: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
This queer historical fantasy romance contains murder, moderate violence, and steamy romantic content between two women. The mystery elements involve death and danger aboard an ocean liner.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, steamy sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include murder, death, and violence.
Who'll love this
Adult readers will enjoy the witty banter, sapphic romance, magical intrigue, and locked-room murder mystery set on a glamorous 1920s ocean liner.