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A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

A breathtaking space opera Publishers Weekly starred review about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officialsa role that may empower her to win back her nations independenceperfect for fans of NK Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor

The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic but the last Emperors surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan All she wants is to quit her day job and expand her fledgling tea business But when her lover is assassinated and her sibling is abducted by Imperial soldiers Enitan abandons her idyllic plans and weaves her tea tray up through the heart of the Vaalbaran capital There she learns just how far she is willing to go to exact vengeance free her sibling and perhaps even secure her homelands freedom