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The second of Charles's Will Darling adventures - 1920s pulp-style stories with glittering nightclubs and Bright Young Things and gangsters and guns, and an odd-couple queer romance between working-class bookseller Will Darling, veteran of Flanders, and Lord Arthur 'Kim' Secretan, an aristocratic scion with a chequered past. Like all of K.J. Charles's books that I've read, The Sugared Game combines a compelling adventure plot with a rather swoony romance (and a number of pretty explicit sex scenes, but helpfully she doesn't mix plot development with the sex scenes so they are entirely skippable if you prefer not to read explicit sex scenes. I found the ending of this one pretty downbeat, but it is the second in a trilogy, so the story isn't over yet.