Dark mafia romance, gave it one star, hated everything about this. This was their first meeting. They literally fell in love.
Hidden EmpireKevin J. Anderson
Hidden Empire (2002)
as War looms alliances attested and the fate of entire civilization hangs in a balance like what they do in a good Space Opera
i will admit the story is very long in some ways very meandering and it's perhaps not my favorite on this list but it definitely gave me those fantasy feels and just that immersive escapist experience that i look for when i typically pick up epic fantasy
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Ambassador Mahit Dzmare is posted far from her mining station home, to the Empire's glorious capital. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her predecessor was murdered. But no-one will admit his death wasn't accidental - and she might be next.
Mahit must navigate the capital's deadly halls of power, while hunting the killer. She must also somehow stop the Empire from annexing her fiercely independent colony. As she sinks deeper into this seductive yet unfamiliar culture, Mahit engages in intrigues of her own. For she's hiding an extraordinary technological secret, one which might destroy her station and its way of life.Or it might save them all from annihilation.
Why?
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