An ambitious young woman has just one chance to secure her future and
reclaim her family's priceless lost artifacts in this stand-alone novel
set in the world of Ann Leckie's groundbreaking, NYT bestselling
Imperial Radch trilogy, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingrid is
determined to at least be considered as heir to the family name. She
hatches an audacious plan -- free a thief from a prison planet from
which no one has ever returned, and use them to help steal back a
priceless artifact.
But Ingray and her charge return to her home 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 and her
world, before they are lost to her for good.