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jacey
It's been a couple of months since the events at the end of Slippery Creatures. Will Darling, war survivor and bookseller, hasn't seen Kim Secretan in all that time and doesn't expect to see him again. Will takes his friend, Maisie, dancing to a popular but shady nightclub (this is 1920s London) and things start to get complicated. The nightclub is the base for a bunch of crooks, and it's connected to Zodiac, the secret criminal network that caused Will and Kim so many problems in the first book. Then, surprise, surprise, Kim turns up and things go from bad to worse, A chain of events leads to an impossible situation which involves Phoebe and Maisie as well, and puts Maisie in real danger. This is an explicit m/m romance with a fair number of sex scenes, but it also has great characters and we find out why Kim is sometimes a lying shit. Phoebe and Maisie aren't just walk-on extras. They have their own goal developing independently of Kim and Will, but ultimately it all comes together. I enjoyed this so much that when I finished it at five in the morning, I immediately bought the next one in the trilogy.
