‘[Narrator Mary Robinette Kowal] delivers a stellar performance, imbuing each personality, even the minimal ones, with a completely realized personality…Kowal’s history in theater allows her to increase the emotional influence of each pivotal event.’ – AudioFile Publication, Earphones Award Champion

From author Lara Elena Donnelly, comes a debut spy thriller, Amberlough, where a gay double-agent schemes to safeguard his smuggler lover through the rise of a fascist federal government coup

Trust nobody with anything – about Amberlough: Reserve 1 in the Amberlough Dossier specifically in Amberlough Town.

Covert agent Cyril DePaul thinks he’s good at keeping secrets, especially from Aristide Makricosta. They match one another: Aristide transforms a blind vision to Cyril’s clandestine affairs, and Cyril keeps his lover’s moonlighting work being a smuggler under wraps.

Cyril participates on a mission that leads to disastrous outcomes, leaving smoke from several political fires smoldering throughout the city. Shielding Aristide from your expected fallout isn’t easy, though, for he won’t let anything – not really the crooked city law enforcement or the mounting rage from radical conservatives – dictate his existence.

Enter streetwise Cordelia Lehane, a top dancer on the Bumble Bee Cabaret and Aristide’s runner, who could be the key to Cyril’s plans-if she could be trusted. As the twinkling lights of nightclub marquees yield towards the increasing flames of a fascist trend, these three will struggle to survive using whatever means – and people – required. Including each other.

Merging the espionage thrills of le Carré with the allure of another vintage era, Amberlough will thoroughly seduce and enthrall you.

‘James Bond by way of Oscar Wilde.’ -Holly Dark

‘Dazzling with slang, filled with riotous characters, and dripping with intrigue, Amberlough is usually a amazing romp through a tumultuous, ravishing globe.’ -Robert Jackson Bennett, winner of the Shirley Jackson Prize and the Edgar Prize

‘An astonishing initial book!’ -Globe Fantasy Award-winning writer Ellen Kushner