To Your Last Death (Paperback)

<p>Miriam DeKalb (Dani Lennon) heads up a non-profit which promotes global peace initiatives. This is in reaction to her estranged father -- billionaire sociopath war profiteer Cyrus DeKalb (Ray Wise). When he learns he is dying, he calls Miriam and her three siblings together, ostensibly to discuss his will. However, what he actually has planned is to pronounce judgment on them all. They are, in his view, traitors, and he has elaborate death traps planned for each of them.The wrinkle: a race of intergalactic gamblers who wager on human conflicts as bloody sport have chosen Miriam as their protagonist for this match. The entire situation is being manipulated by the Gamemaster (Morena Baccarin), who has the power to reverse time and reconfigure events as they play out.Miriam is sent back into the arena for another go at the night of terror, this time with foreknowledge giving her a fighting chance. But as the playing field keeps changing beneath her feet, will it be enough to rescue her siblings and escape?</p>