Infidel

'Huryley's world-building is phenomenal . . . highly engaging' Publishers Weekly
The second instalment of the Bel Dame Apocrypha trilogy from Hugo-award winner Kameron Hurley No matter where you go, the Bel Dames will find you Nyx used to be an assassin, part of the sisterhood of the Bel Dames. Now she's babysitting diplomats to make ends meet and longs for the days when killing was a lot more honorable. So, when her former 'sisters' lead a coup against the government, she's the perfect choice to stop them. In a rotten nation of giant bugs and renegade shape shifters, Nyx must forge unlikely allies and rekindle old acquaintances if she is to survive. Otherwise, this time, the bodies she leaves scattered across the continent may include her own... * Make sure you've read the rest of the series:
1. God's War
2. Infidel
3. Rapture

Kameron Hurley is the award-winning, Nebula nominated author of God's War, Infidel, and Rapture. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Year's Best SF 12, and EscapePod, among others. Visit kameronhurley.com for more. Her first novel, GOD'S WAR, has won The Kitschies Gold Tentacle Award for Best Début, a British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer, and has been nominated for The Arthur C. Clarke Award and British Science Fiction Award.