Rapture: Bel Dame Apocrypha Volume 3

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After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is once more a bel dame, part of a sisterhood of elite government assassins trained to cut a target's head off without remorse. But the end of a centuries-long war has thrown her native land of Nasheen into turmoil. A huge influx of unemployedand unemployableyoung soldiers have brought Nasheen to the brink of civil war, even as an alien spaceship stations itself in orbit above the capital. Nyx figures it's a good time to get the hell out of Nasheen, so she assembles a team of renegades, shape-shifters, magicians, and mercenaries to rescue a missing political leader who may be the difference between peace and bloodshed. Just one problem: the politician is an old enemy whom Nyx once left to die in a ditch . . .

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Praise for Kameron Hurley:

Gods War
Inventive, challenging, tough as nailsjust like its hard-hitting heroine. Recommended.Joe Abercrombie

Kameron Hurleys a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision . . . burns right through your brain and your heart.Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch

Hurleys world-building is phenomenal . . .(she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action.Publishers Weekly

One of the most thought-provoking debuts Ive read so far this year.Locus

If you like rough, battle-scarred women who know how to regulate, you're going to love Nyx... She makes Han Solo look like a boy scout. io9

Infidel
Especially enjoyable for its ethnically diverse cast and freewheeling remixes of traditional gender roles.Tor.com

A fast-paced book with a lot of action and smart character moments, mixed with cynical battlefield philosophy. I highly recommend it.Strange Horizons

Rapture
Ferociously imaginativewith an emphasis on ferocious. . . . smart, dark, visceral and wonderfully, hectically entertaining.Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City

Edge-of-the-seat action set within a strange and alien world thats the mutant child of Frank Herbert and Roger Zelazny.David J. Williams, author of The Mirrored Heavens
Praise for Kameron Hurley:

Gods War
Inventive, challenging, tough as nailsjust like its hard-hitting heroine. Recommended.Joe Abercrombie

Kameron Hurleys a brave, unflinching, truly original writer with a unique vision . . . burns right through your brain and your heart.Jeff VanderMeer, author of Finch

Hurleys world-building is phenomenal . . .(she) smoothly handles tricky themes such as race, class, religion, and gender without sacrificing action.Publishers Weekly

One of the most thought-provoking debuts Ive read so far this year.Locus

If you like rough, battle-scarred women who know how to regulate, you're going to love Nyx... She makes Han Solo look like a boy scout. io9

Infidel
Especially enjoyable for its ethnically diverse cast and freewheeling remixes of traditional gender roles.Tor.com

A fast-paced book with a lot of action and smart character moments, mixed with cynical battlefield philosophy. I highly recommend it.Strange Horizons

Rapture
Ferociously imaginativewith an emphasis on ferocious. . . . smart, dark, visceral and wonderfully, hectically entertaining.Lauren Beukes, author of Zoo City

Edge-of-the-seat action set within a strange and alien world thats the mutant child of Frank Herbert and Roger Zelazny.David J. Williams, author of The Mirrored Heavens

Author Bio

Kameron Hurley is the acclaimed author of the novels Gods War and The Mirror Empire. She has been awarded two Hugo Awards, the Kitschky Award for Best Debut Novel, and has also been a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Science Fiction and Fantasy Award, and the Locus Award. Visit her online at KameronHurley.Blogspot.com or on Twitter at @KameronHurley.