Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2018 and shortlisted for the BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) Award, this book has received praise from various sources. Book Smugglers calls it 'excellent,' NPR describes it as 'a fitting addition to the Ancillary world,' SciFiNow finds it 'gripping, richly detailed and rewarding,' and Stylist hails it as 'thrilling, out-of-this-world stuff.'

Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, and Locus Awards, returns with a thrilling new story of power, theft, privilege, and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return to their home world to find their planet in political turmoil at the heart of an escalating interstellar conflict. Together, they must make a new plan.