Between Ink and Shadows

This is giving dark Victorian fantasy with a stabby heroine and a brooding seneschal who definitely knows more than he is letting on. The magic system is wild - think binding contracts written in blood with real consequences. Nim is scrappy and resourceful and Warrick is that infuriating kind of mysterious where you just KNOW the reveal is going to wreck you. Fair warning: it ends on a cliffhanger so have book 2 ready.