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Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

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Running Close to the Wind

by Alexandra Rowland

Narrator Casey Jones

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Length 14 hours 48 minutes

Language English

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Bookseller recommendation

“Our Flag Means Death fans rejoice, we have a new favorite hilarious queer pirate crew on the high seas! Running Close to the Wind is absolutely ridiculous in the best way possible, full of hijinks and found family. Aim your cannonballs true, you won't want to miss this! ”
— Kassie • The Novel Neighbor

Bookseller recommendation

“This is one of my favorite books!!! I buy extra copies just to give them out. Funny, exciting, invigorating, and joyful. All of my favorite things! The main character is a self-proclaimed 'silly little slut', and if that doesn't describe me, I don't know what does. It also has a non-binary icon in a leadership role, a hot monk, and a pathetic little man as the main characters. Again, one of my all time faves, and the only book I've read multiple times!”
— Tobi • Betty's Books

Summary

For fans of Our Flag Means Death, discover low fantasy on the high seas in Alexandra Rowland's Running Close to the Wind.

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.

“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

Fiction Fantasy