Jacey Bedford's Journal

This is the first in a five book series, of which three are currently available. Humanity lives amongst the stars in colonies and space stations connected only by the Flow. In Hub, the great underground habitat where all the lanes of the Flow converge, there's a new Emperox, Cardenia, known as Grayland II, untested and not quite ready for her elevation to ruler of the (known) universe. On End, the farthest flung colony, revolution is in the air, and a flow-scientist, Marce, tries to keep his head down and stay safe, but he knows the Flow is changing course and his father wants him to take a message to the Emperox. Colonies could be lost to fatal isolation. Between Marce and Cardenia, Kiva Lagos, a ship-board daughter of one of the merchant houses, the House of Lagos, smells a rat. The Nohamapetan merchant house is conspiring to take over End from the present duke. This is very readable and moves along nicely, thiugh never feels rushed. I enjoyed it so much I've already started to read the second book, The Consuming Fire.