Saffron Alley: 2 (Sword Dance)

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.Things arent going according to plan.Varazdas family members suspect Damiskoss 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.Its going to take all of Damiskoss patience and all of Varazdas strength to make this new relationship work. After all that solving one more murder shouldnt be too hard.Saffron Alley is the second book in the Sword Dance trilogy the continuation of Dami and Varazdas story from Sword Dance. It crosses over with One Night in Boukos but you dont have to have read that book to enjoy this one.