City of Crooked Vows - Paperback

by Rowan MacKay (Author)

When a criminal enforcer teams up with an upright city guard, she must hide her most shocking crime of all-or face banishment to Faerie.

Hardened by the gaslit alleys of Mossburgh, Aly doesn't trust a guard easily. Not least because her most sordid crime of all-selling her own magic to survive-is etched into her very skin in dozens of telltale scars. So when a handsome city guard catches her with a dead politician's jewellery in her pocket, she's convinced it's all over.

But Calum surprises her. Generous, thoughtful and principled, it's clear he cares more about finding the truth than simply closing the case. He makes a bargain with her: help him solve the murder, and he'll grant amnesty for her petty crimes. It's a chance to start over, free of her violent boss.

Except there's a catch. If he learns she's committed anything more serious than theft, he won't think twice about taking her down. And if he finds out she sold magic, it won't be a prison sentence that awaits her.

It will be banishment to Faerie.

As they chase the bloody connections linking the dead politician to the city's underbelly and even the fae, the fragile trust between them blooms into something deeper. Soon Aly finds herself gambling not just her freedom... but her heart.

Six of Crows meets Scottish fae in this angsty, enemies to lovers fantasy romance, featuring forbidden love, a morally grey heroine and a traumatised love interest who sleeps with knives by his bed.