A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

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A Restless Truth is the second entry in Freya Marske's beloved, awardwinning 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 (...)

Freya Marske is the author of A Restless Truth and A Marvellous Light, which
was an international bestseller and won the Romantic Novel Award for
Fantasy. Her work has appeared in Analog and has been shortlisted for three
Aurealis Awards. She is also a Hugo-nominated podcaster, and won the
Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. She lives in Australia.

Tor
On Sale: Oct 3/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 416 pages
9781250831897 • $26.99 • pb
Fiction / Fantasy / Historical
Series: Last Binding