A Restless Truth
Freya Marske

The Last Binding
Tordotcom
October 2023
On Sale: October 3, 2023
Featuring: Maud Blyth; Violet Debenham
416 pages
ISBN: 125083189X
EAN: 9781250831897
Kindle: B09NHJLQXP
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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Fantasy Historical

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.