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 follow-up to A Marvellous Light.
'It's the lesbian locked-room 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. 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. 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.
