Running Close to the Wind

Author: Alexandra Rowland

Ottoman Empire | Of specific Gay interest | Fantasy romance | Historical romance

Published on 13^th June 2024 by Pan Macmillan (Tor) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 448 pages
234mm x 153mm | 0g

From the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron - Our Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows in this queer pirate adventure as a merry band of misfits attempt to get away with treason on the high seas.

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 . . .

'A whip-smart, hilarious and exuberant high seas romp' — Freya Marske, bestselling author of A Marvellous Light