Navigational Entanglements [Hardcover]

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Award-winning authorofThe Red Scholars WakeAliette de Bodardcomes for your heart with a compelling tale of love, duty, and found-family in an exciting new space opera thatbringsxianxia-style martial arts to the stars.

Jockeying navigator clans guide spaceships through the Hollows: an area of space populated by the mysterious but deadly creatures known as Tanglers. When a Tangler escapes the Hollows for the first time in living memory, each clan must send a representative to help capture itbut the mission may be doomed and the hearts of two clan juniors may be in danger too.

Vi?t Nhi is not good with people. Or politics. Which is a problem when the Rooster clan sends her on the mission against her will, forcing her to work with an ill-matched group of squabbling teammates from rival clans, including one who she cant avoid, and maybe doesnt want to.

H?c C?c of the Snake clan has always been better at poisoning and stabbing than at making friends, but shes drawn to Nhis perceptiveness and obliviousness to social conventionsincluding the ones that really should make Nhi think twice about spending time with her.

But when their imperial envoy and nominal leader is poisoned, this crew of expendable apprentices will have to learn to work togetherfastbefore the invisible Tangler can wreak havoc on a civilian city and destroy the fragile reputation of the clans. Along the way, Nhi and H?c C?c will have to learn the hardest lesson of all: to see past their own misconceptions and learn to trust their growing feelings for each other.