I’d been bemused enough to tolerate his clumsy slashes for a few moments. There’d been the young Grande Austerlitz, who tried to stab me in a surprise attack. This was hardly the first attempt on my life in the harried days since Tyrus’s coronation. I glanced around the crowded presence chamber, hoping to spot the doomed idiot who thought to poison a Diabolic.

But if proving her humanity means that she and Tyrus must do inhuman things, is the fight worth the cost of winning it? Excerpt She will have to prove the humanity that she’s found inside herself to the whole Empire-or she and Tyrus may lose more than just the throne. But she cannot protect him by being the killing machine she once was.

He is the love of her life, and they are partners in this new beginning. The ruling class, the Grandiloquy, has held control over planets and systems for centuries-and they are plotting to stop this teenage Emperor and Nemesis, who is considered nothing more than a creature and certainly not worthy of being Empress. One where creatures like Nemesis will be given worth and recognition, where science and information can be shared with everyone and not just the elite.īut having power isn’t the same thing as keeping it, and change isn’t always welcome. Tyrus has ascended to the throne with Nemesis by his side and now they can find a new way forward-one where they don’t have to hide or scheme or kill. Kincaid’s New York Times bestselling novel, The Diabolic, which called “the perfect kind of high-pressure adventure.” And when the enemy comes for Tom, how much can Tom endure in the battle to save himself? He must decide if he can still fight when the odds of success seem to be sliding from his grip.The thrilling sequel to S.J. Then a mysterious figure, the other ghost in the machine, begins fighting against the corporations, but with methods even Tom finds shocking. And when the military academy begins welcoming new cadets with suspicious neural processors, the first step in a plan with horrifying worldwide ramifications, Tom is desperate to stop it, even if that means keeping secrets from his closest allies. Those now in control are aligned with corporate sponsors and their ruthless agendas. What begins as an irritating adjustment soon reveals a dangerous shift in reality. Tom Raines and his friends are eager to return to the Pentagonal Spire to continue training for the elite Intrasolar Forces, but they soon discover troubling changes: strict new regulations and the revelation that the Spire is under new military control. This exhilarating, explosive, and heartrending conclusion to the Insignia trilogy brings Tom and his intelligent, passionate, and brave young friends stunning tests and dangerous confrontations and through to an impossible future they could never have predicted. Summary: The explosive conclusion to the series reviewers have likened to Ender’s Game and “Hogwarts-in-Space”

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