TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rowland,Alexandra
TI  - Running close to the wind
SN  - 9781250802538
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Tor Publishing Group
KW  - Pirates
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Humorous fiction
KW  - Queer fiction
KW  - Action and adventure fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - LGBTQ+
N2  - "Avra Helvaçi, former field agent of the Arasti Ministry of Intelligence, has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world--and the only place to flee with a secret that big is the open sea. To find a buyer with deep enough pockets, Avra must ask for help from his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. They are far from happy to see him, but together, they hatch a plan: take the information to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls, fence it, profit. The only things in their way? A calculating new Arasti ambassador to the Isles of Lost Souls who's got his eyes on Avra's every move; Brother Julian, a beautiful, mysterious new member of the crew with secrets of his own and a frankly inconvenient vow of celibacy; the fact that they're sailing straight into sea serpent breeding season and almost certain doom. But if they can find a way to survive and sell the secret on the black market, they'll all be as wealthy as kings--and, more important, they'll be legends"--
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