A USA Today bestseller!
A New York Times Best Romance of 2024

\"Marske writes what I crave most in romantasy: brilliant craft, fresh voice, characters worth obsessing over, and genuine honest-to-god heat.\"-Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White and Royal Blue

\"Freya Marske is the queen of romantic fantasy novels.\"-Polygon

\"Spicy and heisty and cozy in just the right balance.\"-The New York Times

\"This cozy fantasy sizzles.... Fans of Marske\'s Last Binding series (beginning with A Marvellous Light, 2021) will be thrilled to find the same effortless worldbuilding, rich characterization, gentle humor, and steamy love scenes here.\"-Booklist, *starred review*

\"There\'s nothing in fantasy or queer romance that Marske can\'t do.\"-Sarah Rees Brennan, author of Long Live Evil

\"The perfect blend of charm, yearning and romance delivered at sword\'s point, Swordcrossed is a compulsively readable fantasy with characters who will steal your heart.\"-C.S. Pacat, New York Times bestselling author of Captive Prince

\"A delightful diversion.\"-Entertainment Weekly

\"What a world Freya Marske has created for us! I feel like I could close the book and go walk the streets of her city-and enjoy myself thoroughly. A beguiling romance between a man who is too careful and a man who thinks he has nothing to lose.\"-Ellen Kushner, author of Swordspoint

\"Freya Marske\'s books are something special.\"
-Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author

\"Both deliciously cozy and blisteringly hot, Swordcrossed is a book best read by a fire, with a glass of mead in your hand and a hot swordsman on your knee.\"-Lex Croucher, author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

\"Clever, sparkling, and perfectly indulgent, Swordcrossed feels like stepping into a party already in full swing. Everything is possible; everything is wondrous. This is fantasy romance at its very best.\"-Grace D. Li, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief

\"Swordcrossed is so good I want to set it on fire and physically throw it at people\'s faces. . . . It filled my brain with tickly champagne bubbles of glee.\"-Alexandra Rowland, author of A Taste of Gold and Iron

\"An effervescent, sparkling fantasy romance that eagerly pulls you along into its blade-sharp dance until the final words.\"-Emma Denny, author of One Night in Hartswood

Praise for the Last Binding Trilogy

\"The prose is sublime, the world-building top-notch, and the magic system is fascinating and unique.\"-TJ Klune, New York Times bestselling author of The House on the Cerulean Sea

\"Stunning-the writing is lush, the world-building is fascinating, and the romance is searing hot. I am completely obsessed.\"-Cat Sebastian, author of The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

\"Delightful and spicy . . . Marske is simply superb at her chosen genres.\"-The New York Times