I Can’t Wait For…Her Subtle Investigations by Scarlett Gale
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.
You can find the releases I’m most anticipating this year over on my Unmissable list, but I use Can’t-Wait Wednesday to feature books I’m hopeful about but aren’t 100% sure will be five star reads.
This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Her Subtle Investigations by Scarlett Gale!
Her Subtle Investigations (The Warrior's Guild, #3) by Scarlett Gale Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Representation: Brown sapphic MC, F/F/F
Published on: 16th August 2025
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A Tired Blade
The Knife has long been the Warrior Guild's invisible answer to complicated problems—silent, sharp, and gone before her enemies even notice. She loves the work, loves helping people no one else will, but the years of endless travel—of lonely assignments, empty beds, and temporary allies—have worn her thin. Every new mission feels heavier, and Southport's nostalgic foods and familiar heat stir a deeper ache: the yearning not just for a solid home, but for a shared life with someone to whom she's just Kia, not the Knife...
A Collision Course
Chasing down a string of kidnappings, the Knife crosses paths—and blades—with two surprising Southport natives, both hunting for missing family. Masako wields nature magic with steely fury, but knows almost nothing about Southport's criminal underbelly. Nukunya carries an encyclopedic knowledge of the city along with a dry wit that cuts as deep as any blade. After a violent first meeting the trio form an uneasy alliance, then a true team as their search leads them closer to their quarry… and each other…
A Branching Path
Pinned down and hiding out in a brothel's back room, the Knife finds the lines between partnership, friendship, and romance blurring. Southport—and the people in it—has started to feel dangerously like home, but the Knife's Guild assignments never let her stay anywhere for long. With duty pulling her to one path and the temptation of Masako and Nukunya pulling her to another, she'll have to decide: Is it time to walk away again, or finally lay down roots?
I am OFFICIALLY the luckiest sod to ever sod, because just a few weeks after finishing what I thought was the last Warrior’s Guild book…Scarlett Gale announced the release date of book three!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I suspect I’m FAR from the only person who adored the Knife, an important secondary character in the first two books, so I’m ridiculously delighted that she’s getting her own book! AND it’s going to be poly!!! Gale has assured us that this isn’t a love triangle, it’s a love TRIAD, aka my very favourite thing.
MORE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
The series so far has been so soft and escapist, but still meaty with food for thought, and I’m sure Her Subtle Investigations will be the same! I’M SO EXCITED!
(And it looks like this one will work perfectly well as a standalone, but you’ve got time to read the first two books before it comes out, if you want to!)
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