Cover Crush: A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft
A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft has such a mood going on in this cover…it’s definitely dark and atmospheric, right? But it also holds some promise of romance between two characters and well those characters are sapphic – really say no more! And, yes, this is an adult imprint so expect the subject matter to be more adult. This dark academia, murder mystery, magical fantasy is releasing on September 17th and is the perfect book to bring us right into the mysteriously dark and spooky fall reads!
Thank you Del Rey Books for the free ARC from SDCC!
A Dark and Drowning Tide
by Allison SaftPublished by: Del Rey Books
on September 17, 2024
Genres: Adult, Fantasy, LGBTQIA+, Mystery, Mythology/Folklore, New Adult, Romance, Young Adult
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A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic.
Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring. The magical spring promises untold power, which the king wants to harness to secure his reign of the embattled country of Brunnestaad. Lorelei is determined to use this opportunity to prove herself and make her wildest, most impossible dream come to become a naturalist, able to travel freely to lands she’s only ever read about.
The expedition gets off to a harrowing start when its leader—Lorelei’s beloved mentor—is murdered in her quarters aboard their ship. The suspects are her five remaining expedition mates, each with their own motive. The only person Lorelei knows must be innocent is her longtime academic rival, the insufferably gallant and maddeningly beautiful Sylvia von Wolff. Now in charge of the expedition, Lorelei must find the spring before the murderer strikes again—and a coup begins in earnest.
But there are other dangers lurking in the forests that rearrange themselves at night, rivers with slumbering dragons waiting beneath the water, and shapeshifting beasts out for blood.
As Lorelei and Sylvia grudgingly work together to uncover the truth—and resist their growing feelings for one another—they discover that their professor had secrets of her own. Secrets that make Lorelei question whether justice is worth pursuing, or if this kingdom is worth saving at all.
