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The Liar’s Knot

Trust is the thread that binds us . . . and the rope that hangs us.

In Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city's filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.

Derossi Vargo has always known. He has sacrificed more than anyone imagines to carve himself a position of power among the nobility, hiding a will of steel behind a velvet smile. He'll be damned if he lets anyone threaten what he's built.

Grey Serrado knows all too well. Bent under the yoke of too many burdens, he fights to protect the city's most vulnerable. Sooner or later, that fight will demand more than he can give.

And Ren, daughter of no clan, knows best of all. Caught in a knot of lies, torn between her heritage and her aristocratic masquerade, she relies on her gift for reading pattern to survive. And it shows her the web of corruption that traps her city.

But all three have yet to discover just how far that web stretches. And in the end, it will take more than knives to cut themselves free...

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From Our Journals

A new Rook and Rose short story!

01-12-2023 11:06 AM Marie Brennan
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Happy New Year! We are officially in 2023, which means that the publication of Labyrinth’s Heart suddenly seems so much closer than before: not next year but this year. About seven months from now! We anticipate getting our copy-edited manuscript in the next week or two, so the wheels of production have begun turning . […]

Annotations for The Liar’s Knot!

12-07-2022 12:02 AM Marie Brennan
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Happy anniversary of the release of The Liar’s Knot! In an ideal world, you all would be about to receive your copies of Labyrinth’s Heart; alas, you must wait some time longer. But we are doing second-round revisions right now, so you can trust it is on its way, just as fast as we can […]

An update

05-31-2022 11:43 AM Marie Brennan
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It’s been quite silent around here, for which we apologize! We do have some updates for you, albeit not quite as detailed as we would like. As the last post indicated, the draft of the third and final Rook and Rose book is indeed done. After drafting comes revisions, though, and for various reasons outside […]

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If you need something to tide you over until the release of Labyrinth’s Heart, check out Marie’s folkloric Rook and Rose short story “Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya”!

01/12/2023

Speaking of short fiction, Marie’s flash piece “The Faces and the Masks” is now up at Daily Science Fiction!

08/15/2022

Marie has sold another Rook and Rose short story to Beneath Ceaseless Skies: “Constant Ivan and Clever Natalya”!

07/15/2022
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