Not that we didn’t adore writing The Mask of Mirrors - we wouldn’t have written all 200+K words of it in four months flat if we didn’t - and not that there aren’t many things we’re incredibly excited about in the third and final book. It’s the least-loved child, however much the parents may insist they love all their children equally.īecause we are terrible writer-parents, we’ll freely admit that we may love our middle child more than the other two. It exists to keep the first and third installments from bumping into one another it’s setup for payoffs that will come later. It’s a common ailment of trilogies, where the first volume is a grand and satisfying thing, and the third volume is even grander and hopefully even more satisfying, but the second one is. Probably all of you reading this are familiar with Middle Book Syndrome. We promise, we’re not cheesing out on the question when we say this entire book is our Favorite Bit. And in the end, it will take more than wits and knives to cut themselves free. And it shows her the web of darkness that traps her city.īut all three have yet to discover just how far that web stretches. Caught in a knot of lies, torn between her heritage and her aristocratic masquerade, she relies on her gift for reading pattern to survive. Sooner or later, that fight will demand more than he can give.Īnd Ren, daughter of no clan, knows best of all. Bent under the yoke of too many burdens, he fights to protect the city’s most vulnerable. He’ll be damned if he lets anyone threaten what he’s built. He has sacrificed more than anyone imagines to carve himself a position of power and influence among the nobility, hiding a will of steel behind a velvet smile. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city’s filthy alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look.ĭerossi Vargo has always known. In Nadežra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. Carrick is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Liar’s Knot.

The Liar’s Knot by M.A. Carrick