A Restless Truth (#2 The Last Binding)
"A breathtaking romp of a plot, prose as sparkling and luxuriant as a diamond sautoir, and at the heart of it all a sense of wondrous possibility."āThe New York Times
Now an International Bestseller, a New York Times Editors' Choice Pickā, an Indie Next pick, āa Bookpage Best Book of the Year, and a LibraryReads pickāwith three starred reviews!
A Restless Truth is the second entry in Freya Marskeās 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 ladyās companion on an ocean liner, in order to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy that began generations ago.
What she didnāt 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, whoās also returning home to England. Violet is everything that Maud has been trained to distrust yet canāt 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 theyāve both learned to wear before they can unmask a murderer and somehow get their hands on a magical object worth killing forāwithout ending up dead in the water themselves.