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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

More Rook & Rose short fiction!

03-08-2023 12:18 PM Marie Brennan
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We didn’t expect to have more news today (after the flood of the last two days), but the universe had other ideas! I woke up this morning to an acceptance from Flash Point SF for my Rook & Rose folkloric flash story “The Merchant With No Coin.” Not sure yet when that will be published, […]

Discover the origin of the Rook . . .

03-07-2023 2:12 PM Marie Brennan
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Because it is just raining news around here, in addition to yesterday’s cover reveal for Labyrinth’s Heart and call for artists for the pattern deck (please spread the word!), we have EVEN MORE excitement for you today: My Rook & Rose novelette “Pearl’s Price” is out at last, in the anthology When Swords Fall Silent! […]

Calling all artists!

03-06-2023 2:26 PM Marie Brennan
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Alyc Helms and I — the two halves of M.A. Carrick — are looking to recruit an artist for an upcoming Kickstarter to fund the creation of a pattern deck, the divinatory card deck featured in our Rook and Rose fantasy trilogy. Feel not only free but actively encouraged to share this post where artists […]

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Progress update: we have received the page proofs (typeset pages) for Labyrinth’s Heart, and are going through them just as fast as we can!

03/08/2023

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
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