# Taste of Gold and Iron

**Author(s):** Alexandra Rowland
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**Genres:** fantasy, romance, literary-fiction, romance-fantasy, romantasy
**Pages:** 570
**Publisher:** Pan Macmillan
**Published:** Sun Jan 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781529099676
**ISBN-10:** 1529099676
**ASIN:** B09C4FY8WW
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**Amazon binding:** $11.99
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## Description

**The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, where a queer central romance unfolds in a fantasy world reminiscent of the Ottoman Empire.**

Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, finds himself at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court—the body-father of the queen's new child—in an altercation which results in his humiliation.

To prove his loyalty to the queen, his sister, Kadou takes responsibility for the investigation of a break-in at one of their guilds, with the help of his newly appointed bodyguard, the coldly handsome Evemer, who seems to tolerate him at best. In Arasht, where princes can touch-taste precious metals with their fingers and myth runs side by side with history, counterfeiting is heresy, and the conspiracy they discover could cripple the kingdom’s financial standing and bring about its ruin.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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**Themes:** Crime Investigation