Running Close to the Wind is a queer pirate adventure from Alexandra Rowland the author of A
Taste of Gold and Iron . This is Our Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows. '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 Arasti 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 Arasti 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
