Empire Games

Rita Douglas has just about had it with her dead end job. Then the Department of Homeland Security makes her an offer she can't actually refuse. Soon she's reluctantly training for a top-secret operation as a US spy, where latent genetic abilities make her the only viable candidate. And these genes can be switched on to allow her to visit - and infiltrate - alternate timelines. For the United States is waging a war on terror, targeting assassins who can skip between alternate worlds to deliver death on a mass scale. Rita will be the state's secret weapon. Miriam Beckstein is a cabinet-level politician in an industrial revolution US. And her agenda is to champion progress. Her dearest wish is to accelerate her world's tech before their paranoid American twin finds them. It would blow them all to hell. After all, they've done it before. Each timeline also battles dangerous internal conspiracies, as a new cold war threatens to turn white hot. But which world is the aggressor - and will Rita have to choose a side? This new series is set in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series