Cat's Review of Saffron Alley (Sword Dance book 2) by A.J. Demas @ajdemaswriter @TTCBooksandmore

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 aren’t going according to plan.

 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.

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.

 Saffron Alley is the second book in the Sword Dance trilogy, the continuation of Dami and Varazda’s story from Sword Dance. It crosses over with One Night in Boukos, but you don’t have to have read that book to enjoy this one.

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Cat gives this one 5 Meows with a 2 Purr heat index...

It has been a month since Damisko and Verazda have seen each other. Dami had written a couple of letters but had received nothing back. Now he is going to meet Verazdas family though he doesn’t have the tie he thought he would. He only has a week to win them over and things do not go near as planned.

This story was very different from the first. There is a bit of mystery and intrigue but this one is more about fitting in so he can move in once he completes his duties at home.  Instead of villains, Dami has to fight concerned brothers and a murderer goose. The book is page-turning, intriguing, funny, and romantic. I cannot wait for book three.

 

A.J. Demas writes about love and imaginary politics in a fictional ancient Mediterranean world. She has been making up stories since she was a little girl but only recently discovered the romance genre. She lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband and cute daughter.

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