Our Flag Means Death meets Six of Crows in this queer pirate adventure from the author of A Taste of Gold and Iron. ?Come for the irrepressible gremlin of a narrator, stay for the plot-relevant cake competitions! A whip-smart, hilarious and exuberant high seas romp? ? Freya Marske, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Marvellous Light Avra Helva?i, 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 work with his on-again, off-again ex, the pirate Captain Teveri az-Haffar. Together, they will have to risk journeying to the isolated pirate republic of the Isles of Lost Souls. The only things in their way? A calculating new Arasti ambassador to the Isles; Brother Julian, a beautiful, mysterious new member of the crew with secrets of his own; and 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 importantly, they?ll be legends . . . ?Uproariously funny, exquisitely witty, brimming with buckling of swashes and scuttling of butts? ? Premee Mohamed, Nebula Award-winning author of Beneath the Rising