Between Ink and Shadows

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The first in a romantic gaslamp fantasy series from author Melissa Wright.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nimona Weston has a debt to pay.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her father's dealings with the dark society known as the Trust cost Nim her freedom. There's one way out of the contract on her life and that's to bide her time and pay the tithes. But when the Trust assigns Nim to a task in the king's own castle her freedom is not the only thing she'll risk.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Warrick Spenser has a secret.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As king's seneschal he should be the last soul in Inara to risk association with dark magic but long-hidden ties to the Trust are harder to shed than simply cutting the threads. When the Trust sends a thief to his rooms Warrick thinks he's finally found a way to be rid of them for good. But Nimona Weston is hiding secrets of her own.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Magical contracts blood-debt accountants and a deadly game. An epic fantasy with regency flair an improper and slightly stabby heroine with a penchant for trouble swoony slow burn romance and a dark and twisty plot that pits magic against kings love against power and a gothic underworld against a kingdom desperate to survive.</em></p>