Rhonda Mason verdeelt haar tijd tussen schrijven, redigeren, bulldogs en strandleven. Haar literaire werk omspant het volledige spectrum van speculatieve fictie, van space opera tot epische fantasy en urban paranormal. Het enige dat haar energie voor fantastische werelden beperkt, is het ruimte-tijdcontinuüm zelf. Wanneer ze geen werelden creëert, verdient ze haar brood met redigeren en vergezelt ze haar man, een marien bioloog, naar het dichtstbijzijnde strand. Tussen het behoud van zeegras en het weren van invasieve soorten door, gaat ze elke kans om te snorkelen te baat.
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.