Nightfall

As the People's Republic of Haven tears itself apart from within, State Security chief Oscar Saint-Just moves to eliminate every rival on his way to sole control of the Committee of Public Safety, while Admiral Esther McQueen gambles on a coup of her own rather than wait to be purged. This novella traces Haven's descent from revolutionary chaos into outright dictatorship, the political endgame that reshapes the enemy Manticore has been fighting for a generation.