Blood's Force

Where superstition is law, there is no order! Dame Jessamine is a knight errant with a spaceship for a steed, a pupil of ancient science and technology who quests on behalf of the downtrodden. She's accustomed to forging her own path through the galaxy-until she's hijacked at sword-point and sent to investigate Nidaros, a remote barony known for bursts of rebellion. In Nidaros, Jessamine finds a populace short on food and patience, innocents detained for torture, and a court trapped in a we...