**A queer pirate fantasy standalone adventure by Alexandra Rowland, 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_ be
Running Close to the Wind
β Scribed by Alexandra Rowland
- Book ID
- 115167625
- Publisher
- Tor Publishing Group
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781250802552
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β¦ Synopsis
A queer pirate fantasy standalone adventure by Alexandra Rowland, 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
**A LitHub most anticipated book of 2024
Avra HelvaΓ§i, former field agent of the AraΕti 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 ask for help from his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-HΜ£affΔr. They are far from happy to see him, but together, they hatch a plan: take the information to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls, fence it, profit. The only things in their way? A calculating new...
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