Rhonda Mason widmet ihre Zeit dem Schreiben, Editieren, ihren Bulldoggen und dem Strandleben. Ihr literarisches Schaffen erstreckt sich über das gesamte Spektrum der spekulativen Fiktion, von Space Opera über epische Fantasy bis hin zu urbanem Paranormalem. Die einzige Grenze für ihre Energie zur Erschaffung fantastischer Welten bildet die Raumzeit selbst. Wenn sie nicht gerade Welten erschafft, verdient sie ihren Lebensunterhalt mit dem Editieren und begleitet ihren Meeresbiologen-Ehemann an die nächste Küste. Zwischen dem Schutz von Seegras und der Bekämpfung invasiver Arten nutzt sie jede Gelegenheit zum Schnorcheln.
The bloody tournament to determine the new empress of the intergalactic empire may be over, but for exiled princess Kayla Reinumon, the battle is just beginning. To free her home planet from occupation, Kayla must infiltrate the highest reaches of imperial power. But when a deadly nanovirus threatens to ravage the empire, it will take more than diplomacy to protect her homeworld from all-out war.
One seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire’s supreme ruling body, the Council of Seven, remains unfilled, that of the Empress Apparent. The seat isn’t won by votes or marriage. It’s won in a tournament of ritualized combat in the ancient tradition. Now that tournament, the Empress Game, has been called and the females of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political domination for their homeworlds. The battle for political power isn’t contained by the tournament’s ring, however. The empire’s elite gather to forge, strengthen or betray alliances in a dance that will determine the fate of the empire for a generation. With the empire wracked by a rising nanovirus plague and stretched thin by an ill-advised planet-wide occupation of Ordoch in enemy territory, everything rests on the woman who rises to the top.
The long-awaited third book in the Empress Game space opera trilogy from Rhonda Mason.