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After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is back in action in service to the bel dames, a sisterhood of elite government assassins tasked with eliminating deserters and traitors. The end of a centuries-long holy war between her country, Nasheen, and neighboring Chenja has flooded the streets of Nasheen with unemployed - and unemployable - soldiers whose frustrations have brought the nation to the brink of civil war.  Not everyone likes this tenuous and unpredictable "peace," however, and somebody has kidnapped a key politician whose death could trigger a bloody government takeover. With aliens in the sky and revolution on the ground, Nyx assembles a team of mad magicians, torturers,and mutant shape-shifters for an epic journey across a flesh-eating desert in search of a man she's not actually supposed to kill.  Trouble is, killing is the only thing Nyx is good at. And she already left this man to die... ** ### Review "Kameron Hurley is ferociously imaginative - with an emphasis on ferocious. She writes novels that are 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 that's the mutant child of Frank Herbert and Roger Zelazny. At her best, Hurley's work rivals that of Gene Wolfe, and it burns like a drug in the mind long after you've finished it." -- David J. Williams, author of *The Mirrored Heavens* ### About the Author **Kameron Hurley** is the award-winning, Nebula nominated author of *God's War, *Infidel*, and *Rapture*. Her short fiction has appeared in *Strange Horizons*, *Year's Best SF 12*, and *EscapePod***, among others. Visit kameronhurley.com for more. * * * * *