Threshold of Annihilation

Kira has taken her niece to the planet Jettie, hoping to find her a safe place to live. The plan collapses on arrival: Jettie is hosting the quorum, a series of dangerous contests whose results can decide the fate of empires.

Kira has little choice but to enter. Enemies gather around her quickly, and she is hemmed in on every side. Her most closely guarded secrets are at risk of being exposed, and the fallout from that could leave her isolated.

The contests put pressure on the thing Kira fears most, which is trusting other people with the truth about herself. Meanwhile the tsavitee are no longer willing to stay hidden, and a war is building around her.

This is science fiction built on contest and conflict, with a protagonist who guards her past and an escalating threat that reaches beyond one planet. The question that drives it is whether Kira will have allies when her secrets come out.