Impostors

This is the first time anyone's tried to kill us. My heart is beating slantways, but I'm remembering to breathe. There's something ecstatic about the training kicking in. Finally, I'm doing what I was born to do.

I'm saving my sister.

The comms are down, but Naya's voice is in my head from a thousand training sessions — Can you protect Rafia? Not unless I take out this attacker.

Then do it.

Deception. Risk. Betrayal. Redemption. Master storyteller Scott Westerfeld is at the top of his game, and back to his most famous realm.