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Knives Out meets The Binding in this historical romp full of magic queer romance and adventure A Restless Truth by Freya Marske is the thrilling followup to A Marvellous Light

Its the lesbian lockedroom murder mystery of my dreams Beyond delightful Alix E Harrow author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure Shed hoped for plenty of it when she agreed to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy She even volunteered to serve as an old ladys companion on an ocean liner But Maud didnt expect the old lady to turn up dead on the very first day of the voyage

Now she has to deal with a dead body a disrespectful parrot and the lovely dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham Violet is everything Maud has been trained to distrust yet cant help but desire a magician an actress and a magnet for scandal

Surrounded by open sea and a ship full of suspects Maud and Violet must learn to drop the masks theyve learned to wear Only then might they work together to locate a magical object worth killing for and unmask a murderer All without becoming dead in the water themselves

Set in an alternative Edwardian England filled with magic murder and romance A Restless Truth is the spellbinding second book in The Last Binding trilogy by Freya Marske

Continue the series with A Power Unbound