These Burning Stars

Jun Ironway is an occasional thief on a dusty backwater planet. She has come into possession of a secret that could bring down the Kindom, the ruling power over the galaxy. It is the biggest score of her life, and also the most dangerous thing she has ever held.

One star system away, two clerics of the Kindom get the order to find her. Chono is stoic to an unusual degree. Esek is brilliant and hot-tempered. The Kindom counts them among its most brutal enforcers.

A third hunter follows all of them: Six, a ghost from the clerics' shared past. Nobody can say what Six is after.

The Kindom spans many star systems, and its foundation is a genocide. The story is a space opera and a political thriller built around revenge, played as a cat-and-mouse chase across the stars. Manipulation and betrayal drive it, and each of the three women carries secrets of her own. None of them can walk away from the game.