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2 y separately published work icon Swordcrossed Freya Marske , London : Tor , 2024 28241908 2024 single work novel fantasy

'Low stakes. High heat. Sharp steel . . .

'Mattinesh Jay, heir to his family’s struggling business, needs his arranged marriage to go off without a hitch. But if he’s to successfully restore his house’s fortunes, Matti must first hire a swordsman to defend him against any sword-challenges at the altar. Unfortunately, the only duellist he can afford is part-time con artist and full-time charming menace Luca Piere.

'All Luca wants to do is make some easy money and forget the crime he committed in his home town. He didn’t plan on being blackmailed into giving sword lessons to a chronically responsible – and inconveniently handsome – wool-merchant like Matti.

'However, neither Matti’s business troubles nor Luca himself are quite what they seem. As 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.'  (Publication summary)

1 One Version of Yourself, at the Speed of Light Freya Marske , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: Body of Work 2023; (p. 68-85)
2 1 y separately published work icon A Power Unbound Freya Marske , New York (City) : Tor , 2023 26929007 2023 single work novel fable

'Secrets! Magic! Enemies to. . .something more?

'Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he’s drawn reluctantly back into that world.

'Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an unlikely group of friends track down the final piece of the Last Contract before their enemies can do the same. And to make matters worse, they need the help of writer and thief Alan Ross.

'Cagey and argumentative, Alan is only in this for the money. The aristocratic Lord Hawthorn, with all his unearned power, is everything that Alan hates. And unfortunately, Alan happens to be everything that Jack wants in one gorgeous, infuriating package.

'When a plot to seize unimaginable power comes to a head at Cheetham Hall—Jack’s ancestral family estate, a land so old and bound in oaths that it’s grown a personality as prickly as its owner—Jack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets, and bloody sacrifice . . . and the foundations of magic in Britain will be torn up by the roots before the end.' (Publication summary)

2 2 y separately published work icon A Restless Truth Freya Marske , New York (City) : Tor , 2022 25087219 2022 single work novel fantasy

'Magic! Murder! Shipboard romance!

'Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plenty of it when she volunteered to serve as an old lady's companion on an ocean liner, in order to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy that began generations ago.

'What she didn't expect was for the old lady in question to turn up dead on the first day of the voyage. Now she has to deal with a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham, who's also returning home to England. Violet is everything that Maud has been trained to distrust yet can't help but desire: a magician, an actress, and a magnet for scandal.

'Surrounded by the open sea and a ship full of suspects, Maud and Violet must first drop the masks that they've both learned to wear before they can unmask a murderer and somehow get their hands on a magical object worth killing for--without ending up dead in the water themselves.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2 y separately published work icon A Marvellous Light Freya Marske , New York (City) : Tor , 2021 22507672 2021 single work novel fantasy

'Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known.

'Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it--not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else.

'Robin's predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they've been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles--and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The Last Binding Freya Marske , New York (City) : Tor , 2021- 22507630 2021 series - author novel
1 Eat Prey, Love Freya Marske , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Unnatural Order 2020;
1 Four Freya Marske , 2020 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Consolation Songs : Optimistic Speculative Fiction for a Time of Pandemic 2020;
1 What We Named the Needle Freya Marske , 2019 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Analog , July-August vol. 139 no. 7-8 2019; (p. 130-137)

'Amy’s people don’t realize they’re sending her off in a lifeboat from their old starship, but fortunately she ends up somewhere she can actually do some good.'

Source: Rocket Stack Rank (http://www.rocketstackrank.com/2019/06/What-We-Named-the-Needle-Freya-Marske.html). (Sighted: 2/4/2020)

1 Hamelin's Graves Freya Marske , 2017 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Andromeda Spaceways Magazine , December no. 69 2017; (p. 127-141) 2017's Best Stories 2018; (p. 105-120)

A tale of Hamelin after the Pied Piper has taken the children.

1 The Provenance Game Freya Marske , 2013 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Fight Like a Girl 2013; (p. 7-28)
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