Swordcrossed

Brimming with steamy romance, charm and intrigue, Swordcrossed is a dazzling queer fantasy from the internationally bestselling author of The Last Binding trilogy. This is fantasy romance at its very best Grace D. Li, author of Portrait of a Thief Low stakes. High heat. Sharp steel . . . Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. Sword-challenge at the ceremony could destroy all hope of restoring his familys wealth, something that Matti has been trying and failing to do for the past ten years. What he can afford, unfortunately, is part-time con artist and full-time charming menace Luca Piere. Luca, for his part, is trying to reinvent himself in a new city. All he wants to do is make some easy money and try to forget the crime he committed in his home town. He didnt plan on being blackmailed into giving sword lessons to a chronically responsible and inconveniently handsome wool merchant like Matti. However, neither Mattis business troubles nor Luca himself are quite what or who they seem. As the days to Mattis wedding count down, the two of them become entangled in the intrigue and sabotage that have brought Mattis house to the brink of ruin. And when Lucas secrets threaten to drive a blade through their growing alliance, both Matti and Luca will have to answer the question: how many lies are you prepared to strip away when the truth could mean losing everything you want? The cosy, low stakes of Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree meets the scorching bodyguard fantasy of Jennifer L. Armentrout's From Blood and Ash in this enemies-to-lovers romance by Freya Marske. 'Swordcrossed proves there's nothing in fantasy or queer romance Marske can't do' - Sarah Rees Brennan, author of Long Live Evil