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Describe your latest book.
My latest book,
Provenance, is set in a distant star system and is about Ingray, a young woman who wants — needs — to impress her powerful mother and outdo her very competitive brother. She plans to do this by springing a notorious thief from prison, one who can tell her the location of some particularly valuable artifacts.
Provenance is set in the same universe as the
Ancillary trilogy, but it's not set in Radch space, and it doesn't deal with the same characters. It's a standalone. In this society the possession of such artifacts — called "vestiges" — are extremely important, a way of staking a claim to family and personal history, and Ingray wants to hand these vestiges over to her mother, to use as leverage against one of her political opponents...