A lily among thorns

3.5 stars

All the things I loved in this book:
- Queer people exist, and have sex lives, and love lives, and get their own stories
- Brown/Black people exist (do not get quite their own stories? But you can see that they have their own story, even if the book does not tell it, only hints at it.)
- Sex workers exist, and have various experiences of it, but although sex-work is definitely stigmatised by society, the book does not.
- Het dude has 'unmanly' interests, isn't embarrassed

So Serena is a former sex-worker who now owns an Inn, which she is very proud of. Solomon is a young tradesman who needs to find the family earrings before his sister's wedding. Together, they fight espionage!