FREYA MARSKE

在充滿魔法與謎團的歷史背景中，《A Restless Truth》展開一場海上奇案。Maud Blyth原本只想協助兄長解開陰謀，卻意外捲入一起謀殺案。船上屍體、搗蛋鸚鵡，以及她無法抗拒的魔法女伶Violet，使旅程充滿變數。Freya Marske筆下的謎團如舞台般層層揭示，人物鮮明，節奏優雅。愛情、謀殺與魔法交織，令人欲罷不能。Knives Out meets The Binding in this historical romp full of magic, romance and adventure.Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She’d 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 lady's companion on an ocean liner. But Maud didn't 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 can’t 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 they’ve learned to wear. Only then might they work together to locate a magical

莊園，樹籬迷宮，謀殺，魔法，帥哥，與帥哥談戀愛的另一個帥哥。愛德華時代浪漫喜劇！一樁插曲讓從男爵Robin Blyth發現了自己與魔法組織的關聯，好像他人生裡的麻煩還不夠多似的，他現在要面對的不僅是邪惡力量，還有他的死對頭Edwin Courcey。Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes – including a magic-infused murder mystery and a delightful queer romance.‘Lush historical fantasy . . . A delightful book, with richly developed characters’ – New York Times‘Mystery! Magic! Murder! . . . This book is a confection, both marvellous and light’ – Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryFor fans of Georgette Heyer or Julia Quinn's Bridgerton, who'd like to welcome magic into their lives . . .Young baronet Robin Blyth thought he was taking up a minor governmental post. However, he's actually been appointed parliamentary liaison to a secret magical society. If it weren’t for this administrative error, he’d never have discovered the incredible magic underlying his world.Cursed by mysterious attackers and plagued by visions, Robin become

Knives Out meets The Binding in this historical romp full of magic, romance and adventure.Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She’d 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 lady's companion on an ocean liner. But Maud didn't 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 can’t 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 they’ve 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.‘Mystery! Magic! Murder! . . . This book is a confection, both marv

Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance! The second entry in Freya Marske's beloved The Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light“Sublime prose, top-notch world-building, delightfully queer.”―TJ Klune, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, on A Marvellous LightMagic! 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

Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an

&b>A delightful historical romp, perfect for fans of &i>The Binding&/i> and &i>The Invisible Library&/i>. In an alternative Edwardian England, a Baronet and a magician must unravel a murder mystery to