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A Hazardous Engagement
2019
First Published
3.92
Average Rating
105
Number of Pages
A stand-alone novella featuring Madis Defranthea, whose brother presents her with a challenge. If she wants to join his gang, she and her team have to steal a magical belt that’s locked to the waist of a bride, on her wedding night, in a fortified castle, on a rock in the middle of the sea. Madis takes him up on it. But when she discovers just how much her brother didn’t know, the job proves even more hazardous than she bargained for... Featuring magic, automata, snobbery, small gods, large fish, a useful corpse and an unnervingly intelligent horse. In A Hazardous Engagement the author of Babylon Steel and Shanghai Sparrow delivers a thrilling tale of cunning, ingenuity and betrayal that entertains royally from first page to last.
Avg Rating
3.92
Number of Ratings
13
5 STARS
23%
4 STARS
54%
3 STARS
15%
2 STARS
8%
1 STARS
0%
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Author

Gaie Sebold
Gaie Sebold
Author · 6 books

Gaie Sebold Gaie’s debut novel Babylon Steel http://tinyurl.com/bwzcsbu was published by Solaris in January 2012 to enthusiastic reviews… “…a pacey fantasy romp;” The Guardian “Ingenious, gripping and full of pleasures on every level. Exceptional.” Mike Carey “…an absolutely wonderful author who should be warmly welcomed alongside those authors pushing fantasy into new directions,” Fantasy Faction … and was also shortlisted for the Compton Crook Award. The sequel, Dangerous Gifts, came out in 2013 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Gi... . Shanghai Sparrow https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shanghai-Spa... - the first in the "Gears of Empire" steampunk series was published in 2014 and Sparrow Falling https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sparrow-Fall... in 2016. Gaie is an accomplished short story writer and poet; her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies. Gaie was born in the US, and lives in London. She has worked as a cleaner, secretary, till-monkey, stage-tour-manager, editor, and charity administrator. She now writes full time and runs occasional writing workshops. She is an obsessive reader, enthusiastic gardener, and has been known to run around in woods hitting people with latex swords and to declaim poetry in public, though not usually at the same time. She also has the standard cat apparently issued to most fantasy writers.

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