- Science Fiction, Romance, LGBTI, Queer
When Tennal—a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster—is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the military decides to bind his mind to someone with coercive powers strong enough to control him. Enter Lieutenant Surit, the child of a disgraced general. Out of a desperate need to restore a pension to his other parent, Lieutenant Surit agrees to be bound to Tennal and keep him conscripted in the army, a task that seems impossible even for someone with Surit's ability to control minds. Tennal just wants to escape, but Surit isn’t all that he seems. And their bond may just be the key to their freedom.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Everina Maxwell
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 474
- Publisher
- Tor Books, Orbit, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781250758866
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“Tennalhin Halkana arrived at the party fashionably late, which might have meant something if he'd been invited in the first place.”
Everina Maxwell is the author of ***Winter’s Orbit***, a queer romantic space opera about a diplomat who enters into an arranged marriage to save his planet. She grew up in Sussex, UK, which has come a long way from the days of Cold Comfort Farm and now has things like running water and Brighton Pier. She was lucky enough to live near a library that stocked Lois McMaster Bujold, Anne McCaffrey and Terry Pratchett, so spent all her spare time devouring science fiction and doorstopper fantasy, with her family’s Georgette Heyer collection always a reliable friend when the library books ran out. She first took part in NaNoWriMo in 2004 and continues to precariously balance writing, a day job, an
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