Thank you C. Monk, Yaypub, and Netgalley for a copy of this book to review.

River carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. Daughter to a single biker turned (mostly) upstanding citizen, and sister to the medically complex, best friend Sage - she is keenly aware of her role in keeping her family protected, supported, and together. One night after rushing Sage to the hospital after collapsing River is kidnapped and taken from the world (literally) that she knows and thrown into Arthurian-meets-Victorian Thule. A world across the galaxy attached through a magical pathway/wormhole. In Thule she discovers that the reason for her abduction is a matter of

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not quite

mistaken identity as she's assumed to be the missing wife of an ailing Duke.

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River discovers that the Dukes actual wife is actually her missing twin sister, who (along with their mother) had been kidnapped back to Thule almost two decades earlier)

. Finding unlikely allies, unraveling the mysteries of the true history of Arthurs legend and finding a way home to save her sister become her new life mission -- oh and let us throw in a growing affection for the Duke

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and the complications of lusting over your twin sisters husband

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I really enjoyed reading this retelling of Arthur and his Knights. I loved Rivers a plomb and Hadrian's stoic moral compass. I'll be looking for book 2 in the series...