Behind the Throne (Indranan War, #1)

by K. B. Wagers

Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place as the only remaining heir, she finds that trading her ship for a palace is her most dangerous move yet.

• ISBN10: 0316308609
• ISBN13: 9780316308601
• Publish Date: 2 August 2016
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Orbit
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 432
• Language: English

Reviews

[ross91]

Kinda standard.
Badass runaway princess/gunrunner comes back home to discover who's murdered her sisters and consequently become empress...
A little predictable, but enjoyable anyway.
The heroine is a kickass Marie Sue, but at least she's not a little white snowflake and she's actually capable of doing her job.
I liked the diversity and the matriarchal society, that's not something very common in sci-fi

[wyvernfriend]

excellent SF Princess Hailimi Bristol is the spare, she decides to run away and have an interesting life while also investigating her father's death. She becomes a gunrunner and changes her appearance. The story opens with her losing a battle and being taken by the Indranan trackers back to her homeland and the news that her family are mostly dead and her mother is dying. She's the last heir from her family.  Now she has to survive the random attempts to kill her and find out what's going on and try to accept that she's going to be in charge in a matriarchial society where there's revolution in the air, and another empire who have plans.
 
I really enjoyed it and passed it on to my husband for him to enjoy too.