The Empress Game, by Rhonda Mason, Paperback, New

Power, grace, deadliness defined. Always cunning, endlessly victorious... 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. Now the tournament, the Empress Game, has been called and the women of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political domination for their home worlds. Kayla Reunimon, a supreme fighter, is called by a mysterious stranger to battle it out in the arena. 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. "Mason delivers an old fashioned space opera passion, politics, and the fate of Empires hanging on the strength and courage of a single woman.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Titan Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 10 July 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN ‏ : ‎ 9781783295241
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 2.51 x 20.32 cm