Saffron Alley

<p>A month ago eunuch sword-dancer and spy Varazda collided with ex-soldier Damiskos at a seaside villa during a dizzying week of intrigue assassinations and a fake love affair that-maybe-turned real. Now Varazda is back home in Boukos at the centre of a family and community he dearly loves and Damiskos is coming to visit.</p><p><br></p><p>Things aren't going according to plan.</p><p><br></p><p>Varazda's family members suspect Damiskos's motives. Varazda grapples with his own desires. Add in a horrible goose a potentially lethal sculpture and yet another assassination plot and any man other than Dami would be boarding a ship straight back to Pheme.</p><p><br></p><p>It's going to take all of Damiskos's patience and all of Varazda's strength to make this new relationship work. After all that solving one more murder shouldn't be too hard.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Saffron Alley</em> is the second book in the Sword Dance trilogy the continuation of Dami and Varazda's story from <em>Sword Dance</em>. It crosses over with <em>One Night in Boukos</em> but you don't have to have read that book to enjoy this one.</p>