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Things are getting badly for the Family in this brand-new SF book of the Merchant Princes, the hugely popular series by Charles Stross. Secured in a horrible civil war for control within the empire of Niejwein, their military is bottled-up in the castle under siege in two parallel universes at the same time. Duke Angbard, the Clan’s chief, hasbeen laid low with a swing: plotters happen to be conspiring in preparedness for the dance in the future. Miriam, saved from the limited place in New Britain, discovers the expectations of the youthful, modern faction centered on her.