num_pages: 480
description: The battle for the throne is over. The war for the galaxy is just beginning.Hail Bristol former gunrunner and newly-crowned Empress of Indrana looks forward to retiring her gun and rebuilding her Empire in peace. After a bloody civil war laced with regicide betrayal and foreign plots Hail and her people are braced for years of necessary reconstruction and reform.But when Indranas closest ally asks Hail to intervene in an interstellar military crisis she must instead embark on the highest stakes diplomatic mission the Empire has ever faced. Caught between two alien civilizations at each others throats she must uncover each sides true intentions before all of humanity becomes collateral damage in a full-blown galactic war.
language: English
title: There Before the Chaos
publisher: Orbit