The Dragonfly Gambit

"Hits like a punch to the face." —Kate Elliott Nearly ten years after Inez Kato sustained a career-ending injury during a military exercise gone awry, she lies, cheats, and seduces her way to the very top, to destroy the fleet that she was once a part of, even at the cost of her own life. Ennis Rezál, Third Daughter of the Rule, has six months left to live. She is desperate to end the twenty-year war she was birthed to fight. But when she brings Inez aboard the mothership, a chess game of manipulation and double-crossing begins to unfold, and the Rule doesn't stand a chance. Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.   A.D. Sui is a Ukrainian-born, queer, and disabled speculative fiction writer. A failed academic and retired fencer, she spends her days wrangling her two dogs and hundreds of tropical plants. Her writing has appeared in Dark Matter Magazine, Augur, HavenSpec, and others.   "The Dragonfly Gambit doesn't hold back—it hits like a punch to the face. Sui's novella unrelentingly