Apollyon's Gambit

�Sometimes, everything that matters in our lives�everything that�s worth giving a shit for�comes down to one hour in one day. This is that hour of that day.� After eight months of peace, the war has flared up again, and Senior Lieutenant Loralynn Kennakris is thoroughly pissed off. On the walking-wounded list with a paralyzed arm and unable to fly, her superiors have decided to give her a meaningless promotion and send her off with a diplomatic mission to Iona. For years, tensions have been ramping up between the Nereidian League and its increasingly powerful former colony. It�s the diplomat�s job to defuse them before they explode. Kris�s job is to act as the mission�s �military adviser��which really means looking decorative, fetching coffee, and keeping her mouth shut. That is, until someone screwed up. Caught on the wrong side of a military disaster that threatens the League�s whole war effort and forced into a role she never desired, Kris knows she didn�t start this fight. But she�s sure as hell gonna finish it ... one way or another.