Sword Dance: 1

Five years ago Damiskoss brilliant military career was cut short leaving him with a permanent disability and scars that are not all physical. Adrift and still grieving he tries to find meaning in an unsatisfying job.Work takes him to the remote seaside villa of an old friend where among an odd assortment of guests he meets the eunuch sword-dancer Varazda. Enigmatic and beautiful but distinctly prickly Varazda is the antithesis of the straightforward and serious Damiskos. Yet as they keep getting in each others way at the villa their mutual dislike is complicated by a spark of undeniable attraction.Then the villas guests begin to reveal their true characters and motives-no one here is what they seem-and Damiskos finds himself at the centre of a bizarre web of espionage theft and assassination. Varazda may need Damiskoss help but not as much as Damiskos finally awakening to a new sense of life and purpose needs Varazda.Sword Dance is the first book in the Sword Dance trilogy an m/nb romance set in an imaginary ancient world with murderous philosophy students sex acts named after fruit and love blossoming in the midst of mayhem.