Title: Threads That Bind

Series: Threads That Bind #1

Author: Kika Hatzopoulou

In a world where the children of the gods inherit their powers, a descendant of the Greek Fates must solve a series of impossible murders to save her sisters, her soulmate, and her city.

Descendants of the Fates are always born in threes: one to weave, one to draw, and one to cut the threads that connect people to the things they love and to life itself. The Ora sisters are no exception. Io, the youngest, uses her Fate-born abilities as a private investigator in the half-sunken city of Alante.

But her latest job leads her to a horrific discovery: somebody is abducting women, maiming their life-threads, and setting the resulting wraiths loose in the city to kill. To find the culprit, she must work alongside Edei Rhuna, the right hand of the infamous Mob Queen—and the boy with whom she shares a rare fate-thread linking them as soul mates before they’ve even met.

But the investigation turns personal when Io’s estranged oldest sister turns up on the arm of her best suspect. Amid unveiled secrets from her past and her growing feelings for Edei, Io must follow clues through the city’s darkest corners and unearth a conspiracy that involves some of the city’s most powerful players—before destruction comes to her own doorstep.

Io is descended from the Fates, a cutter, someone who can follow a persons threads. She works as a PI in the half-sunken city of Alante until a job goes a bit wrong and she is thrown together with a mob boss and her 2nd, Edei. He is her destiny…but he doesn’t know!

‘Her fated thread.
The boy she was destined to Love’

Together they investigate some strange murders that have been happening and literally, it all kicks off! I suspected so many people, the author is so good at planting seeds! My last guess was right!!!

This was an action packed mystery with a lovely romance and the last part had me holding my breath, the crescendo was magnificent!

‘What I can tell you with absolute clarity, is this: if I had the choice, I would still choose you.’

Now I need book 2, apparently out in summer 2024!