Up With the Star (audiobook)

Six years ago, after killing her father, she was stripped of her name, then sold into gladiatorial slavery in the Dead Nation, an imperialistic slaver nation consuming huge portions of the Midwest. Now, three days after a coup that started with the Iconoclast's cannibalistic destruction of the previous Warlord, the Iconoclast asks her--wouldn't you like to make everyone have to respect you? Wouldn't it be nice to have power, and be respected? She agrees, and ascends into power as the Nameless Warlord.

Then the assassination attempts start.