Our Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows in this queer pirate adventure from the author of A
Taste of Gold and Iron. 'Come for the irrepressible gremlin of a narrator stay for the
plot-relevant cake competitions! A whip-smart hilarious and exuberant high seas romp' - Freya
Marske Sunday Times bestselling author of A Marvellous Light Avra Helvaçi former field
agent of the Arashti Ministry of Intelligence has accidentally stolen the single most
expensive secret in the world - and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open
sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets Avra must work with his on-again off-again ex
the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. Together they will have to risk journeying to the
isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls. The only things in their way? A
calculating new Arashti ambassador to the Isles Brother Julian a beautiful mysterious new
member of the crew with secrets of his own and the fact that they're sailing straight into sea
serpent breeding season and almost certain doom. But if they can find a way to survive and
sell the secret on the black market they'll all be as wealthy as kings - and more importantly
they'll be legends . . . 'Uproariously funny exquisitely witty brimming with buckling of
swashes and scuttling of butts' - Premee Mohamed Nebula Award-winning author of Beneath the
Rising
