(Paperback)

The Empress Game, the tournament that decides who fills the final seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire's supreme ruling body has been called. The seat isn't won by votes or marriage. It's won in a tournament of ritualized combat.

(Paperback)

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