A Restless Truth (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250788917)

"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."--The New York Times

Now an International Bestseller, a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick​, an Indie Next pick, ​a Bookpage Best Book of the Year, and a LibraryReads pick--with three starred reviews!

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.

The Last Binding Trilogy:
A Marvellous Light
A Restless Truth
A Power Unbound

Author: Freya Marske
ISBN-10: 1250788919
ISBN-13: 9781250788917
Publisher: Tordotcom
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.39h x 5.78w x 1.23d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2022 pg. 6
Publishers Weekly 08/01/2022
Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 45
Library Journal 09/01/2022 pg. 123
BookPage 11/01/2022