Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea

Opening her cozy, sapphic romantasy series with a charmer, Thorne (This Gilded Abyss) builds an enchanting world in which love, community, good cheer, and high emotional intelligence win the day—except for the dragons. Reyna and Kianthe have been a couple for some time, despite pretty long odds. Reyna reigns at the top of the queen’s guard, a position full of blood and peril. Kianthe is the most powerful mage across all kingdoms, a woman the queen would very much like to—acquire. The couple longs to escape, and one day they do, venturing to the far edges of the world, where dragons are raiding a town struggling to build a community. Opening a bookshop that serves tea, Reyna and Kianthe join those efforts, navigating raiders, peacemaking between the claimants to the town’s hierarchy, and investigating what has so upset the dragons. All the while, both know the queen will not let their escape stand. But the pleasures of tea, books, friends, and each other are so seductive.