Portkey Books Romantasy Book Club: A Dark And Drowning Tide

Name: Portkey Books Romantasy Book Club: A Dark And Drowning Tide
Start: 2025-02-13T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-13T20:00:00-05:00
Location: 404 Main Street, Safety Harbor, FL, United States, Florida 34695

Schedule

Thu Feb 13 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

404 Main Street, Safety Harbor, FL, United States, Florida 34695 | Safety Harbor, FL

The Portkey Books Romantasy Book Club meets every other month and will next meet on Thursday Feb. 13th at 6:30 PM to discuss A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft. We plan to meet in the courtyard at Portkey Books, weather permitting. Any last minute location changes due to weather will be posted in our Romantasy Facebook group and on the door of the bookstore.
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A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor’s murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic.
“Clever, emotional, and gorgeous—at its core, this is a story about the healing capacity of love.”—Ava Reid, author of Juniper & Thorn
Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring. The magical spring promises untold power, which the king wants to harness in order to secure his reign over the embattled country of Brunnestaad. Lorelei is determined to use this opportunity to prove herself and make her wildest, most impossible dream come true: to become a naturalist, able to travel freely to lands she’s only read about.
The expedition gets off to a harrowing start when its leader—Lorelei’s beloved mentor—is murdered in her quarters aboard their ship. The suspects are the five remaining expedition mates, each with their own motive. The only person Lorelei knows must be innocent is her longtime academic rival, the insufferably gallant and maddeningly beautiful Sylvia von Wolff. Now in charge of the expedition, Lorelei must find the spring before the murderer strikes again—and a coup begins in earnest.
But there are other dangers lurking in the dark: forests that rearrange themselves at night, rivers with slumbering dragons hiding beneath the water, and shapeshifting beasts out for blood.
As Lorelei and Sylvia grudgingly work together to uncover the truth—and resist their growing feelings for each other—they discover that their leader had secrets of her own. Secrets that make Lorelei question whether justice is worth pursuing, and if this kingdom is worth saving at all.