And unfortunately, Alan happens to be everything that Jack wants in one gorgeous, infuriating package.

The aristocratic Lord Hawthorn, with all his unearned power, is everything that Alan hates. And to make matters worse, they need the help of writer and thief Alan Ross.Ĭagey and argumentative, Alan is only in this for the money.

Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an unlikely group of friends track down the final piece of the Last Contract before their enemies can do the same. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he’s drawn reluctantly back into that world. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. Secrets! Magic! Enemies to.something more? Li, New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief I would travel anywhere with these characters.'―Grace D. 'A delightful, twisty, endlessly charming romp. 'A breathtaking romp of a plot, prose as sparkling and luxuriant as a diamond sautoir, and at the heart of it all a sense of wondrous possibility.'― The New York Times on A Restless Truth and the foundations of magic in Britain will be torn up by the roots before the end.A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light. When a plot to seize unimaginable power comes to a head at Cheetham Hall-Jack’s ancestral family estate, a land so old and bound in oaths that it’s grown a personality as prickly as its owner-Jack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets, and bloody sacrifice.

Secrets! Magic! Enemies to… something more?

A Power Unbound by Freya Marske