Imaginary Places. Real Passions.

Murder, evil philosophy students, fake lovers, fish sauce, and, well, dancing … with swords.

They met on a battlefield and saved each other’s lives. It’s not the way enemies-to-lovers usually works.

On a night when the whole city is looking for love, two foreigners find it in the last place they expected.

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AJ Demas is one of my favourite historical romancers for her delightful alt-ancient Mediterranean queer stories.

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Demas’s prose is sharp and evocative, her writing humane and deeply felt.