Find her at for book info and blogging, on Twitter for daily timewasting and the odd rant, or in her Facebook group, KJ Charles Chat, for sneak peeks and special extras. She lives in London with her husband, two kids, a garden with quite enough prickly things, and a cat with murder management issues. Threatened on all sides by betrayals, secrets, and the laws of the land, the policeman and the thief must find a way to live and love before the past catches up with them.Ībout the Author KJ Charles is a writer and editor. Twitter Join the lively Facebook group at. She blogs about writing and editing at She lives in London, UK, with her husband, two kids, and a cat of absolute night.

Soon Ben is entangled in Jonah's chaotic existence all over again, and they're running together-from the police, the justiciary, and some dangerous people with a lethal grudge against them. KJ is a writer of romance, mostly m/m, historical or fantasy or both. But he can't seem to forget what they once shared, and Jonah refuses to let him. His betrayal left Ben jailed, ruined, alone, and looking for revenge.īen is determined to make Jonah pay. I did think it a bit hand-wavy how it ended, because it would never have ended that way in real life, but this isn’t real life, and I’m glad these characters got their happy ending.Jonah Pastern is a magician, a liar, a windwalker, a professional thief.and for six months, he was the love of police constable Ben Spenser's life. Jonah and Ben’s relationship is very compelling and sweet, and in the end, satisfying. He wants to find Jonah and exact his revenge (which is the most gentle form of revenge, wanting him to be punished for his crimes, and he can’t even do that in the end because he’s too good of a guy).įor once with these Magpie-world books, the romance is the star of the show and the world and the magic takes a backseat, which I very much appreciated. He lost his friends, his family, his job, and his health, and can no longer find decent work. Our narrator isn’t Jonah Pastern, though, it’s ex-policeman Ben Spenser, who was left behind by his lover Jonah to face jail time and months of hard labor for “gross indecency.” Ben’s life was completely ruined after Jonah swept out of it one morning.

And, as it turns out, Jonah wasn’t really a bad guy for what he did in the original trilogy. I’m not really a fan of “redeeming the bad guy” stories, but of course Charles pulls it off. I was surprised by this! The premise turned me off a little, which is why it took me so long to pick up.

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