A Restless Truth

When Maud Blyth steals away on an ocean liner to aid her beloved older brother, she expects plenty of adventure. But soon she finds herself investigating a murder. Knives Out meets The Binding in this fabulous tale of magic, conspiracy and romance.

''Mystery! Magic! Murder! . . . This book is a confection, both marvellous and light'' - Alix E. Harrow , author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January on A Marvellous Light Knives Out meets The Binding in this historical romp full of magic, romance and adventure. The most interesting things in Maud Blyth''s life have happened to her brother Robin, but she''s ready to join any cause, especially if it involves magical secrets that may threaten the whole of the British Isles. Bound for New York on the R.M.S. Lyric, she''s ready for an adventure. What she actually finds is a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and a beautiful stranger in Violet Debenham, who is everything - a magician, an actress, a scandal - Maud has been trained to fear and has learned to desire. Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of loathsome, aristocratic suspects, they must solve a murder and untangle a conspiracy that began generations before them. A Restless Truth by Freya Marske is the thrilling follow-up to A Marvellous Light.

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Freya Marske is the author of A Power Unbound, A Restless Truth and A Marvellous Light, the latter of which became an international bestseller and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Award for Romantic Fantasy. Her work has appeared in Analog and has been shortlisted for three Aurealis Awards. She is also a Hugo-nominated podcaster, and won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. She lives in Australia.

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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 marvellous and light' - Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January on A Marvellous Light

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske is the thrilling follow-up to A Marvellous Light.