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innovative, immaculate, provocative fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction, and hybrid forms in two separate editions: a biannual e- and print issue and a weekly online magazine. fearless writing for dangerous readers.

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saltpublishing.com

SynopsisCosmopolitan Book Awards 2025: Best historical fiction to take you back in time Summer in Worcestershire, 1577. Eliza Litton, a talented artist, is in love with childhood friend, Francis. But her tyrannical father, who rules the household with insults and fists, has other ideas. As summer comes to an end, Francis vanishes after a drunken night at the inn and Eliza’s father forces her to marry a gentleman, Edmund. Thrown into a new, unfamiliar life with her husband who appears distant and cold, Eliza cannot tear herself from the memory of Francis. Yet her feelings for Edmund soften with time; he presents a life to her better than she ever dreamed. He provides her a safety she never had beneath her father’s roof and encourages her to paint, to pursue the things she loves.As she begins to fall for Edmund, Francis is adrift on his own voyage, doing all he can to survive, fixated on returning to Eliza. But as Eliza grows closer to Edmund, she uncovers a deceit she never imagined, causing her to question her own loyalties and commit her own betrayals. After everything, who will Eliza be? And what choices will she make? The Marriage Contract vividly portrays life in the precarious and unforgiving Elizabethan era, exploring love’s many forms; how we can betray the ones we love, and how we can find forgiveness; and explores a woman’s fight to follow her desires and find her autonomy.Praise for This Book‘A richly detailed historical novel, beautifully written with descriptions that conjure such vivid images for the reader that you feel as though you are there, treading in the characters’ footsteps. The story is stark and raw, real in a way that has you holding your breath, showing all of life’s joys and cruelties without sugar-coating. Love, painful and wonderful in turn, as well as the devastation of loss and grief. And a woman’s struggle for some measure of freedom at a time when females had no autonomy. There is very little in the way of Tudor politics, which is gr