Skin Game
Jim Butcher
Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must help a hated enemy, Nicodemus Archleone, break into a high security vault to steal something belonging to the Lord of the Underworld.
Read Time: ~6.9 hr
Ancillary Sword
by Ann Leckie (2014)
About this book
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor. With a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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