<p>A stand-alone novella featuring Madis Defranthea, whose brother presents her with a challenge. If she wants to join his gang, she and her team have to steal a magical belt that&rsquo;s locked to the waist of a bride, on her wedding night, in a fortified castle, on a rock in the middle of the sea.&nbsp;</p><p>Madis takes him up on it. But when she discovers just how much her brother didn&rsquo;t know, the job proves even more hazardous than she bargained for...</p><p>Featuring magic, automata, snobbery, small gods, large fish, &nbsp;a useful corpse and an unnervingly intelligent horse.</p><p>In <em>A Hazardous Engagement</em> the author of <em>Babylon Steel </em>and <em>Shanghai Sparrow</em> delivers a thrilling tale of cunning, ingenuity and betrayal that entertains royally from first page to last.</p>