Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

by Naomi Novik

I am not allowed to kill him, and we are supposed to be polite to him, and all of it for the sake of the Government. I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.’

Naomi lives in New York City with her husband and six computers. Also