Following her record-breaking debut trilogy Ann Leckie winner of the Hugo Nebula Arthur C.
Clarke and Locus Awards returns with a thrilling new story of power theft privilege and
birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and
regain priceless lost artefacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison
planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to their home
world to find their planet in political turmoil at the heart of an escalating interstellar
conflict. Together they must make a new plan to salvage Ingray's future her family and her
world before they are lost to her for good.
