A Hazardous Engagement

<p>A stand-alone novella featuring Madis Defranthea whose brother presents her with a challenge. If she wants to join his gang she and her team have to steal a magical belt that’s locked to the waist of a bride on her wedding night in a fortified castle on a rock in the middle of the sea. </p><p>Madis takes him up on it. But when she discovers just how much her brother didn’t know the job proves even more hazardous than she bargained for...</p><p>Featuring magic automata snobbery small gods large fish  a useful corpse and an unnervingly intelligent horse.</p><p>In <em>A Hazardous Engagement</em> the author of <em>Babylon Steel </em>and <em>Shanghai Sparrow</em> delivers a thrilling tale of cunning ingenuity and betrayal that entertains royally from first page to last.</p>