"Schism" is a good entry point into Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire Saga, because it traces the early years of the character of Sauscony Valdoria Skolia when she's just going off to the military academy. It's the 10th book in the series, but Asaro tends to skip around the time frame when writing her books because there are so many primary characters. The first book in the series, "Primary Inversion", starts off with Sauscony's story later in her life.
The Skolian Empire Saga is a great space opera.
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The Saga of the Skolian Empire, informally called the Skolian Saga or Tales of the Ruby Dynasty, is a series of science fiction novels, novelettes and novellas by Catherine Asaro, revolving around characters from an interstellar empire known as the Skolian Empire and their power struggle with the rival Eubian Concord. The plot of the book unfolds over several generations of characters and revolves around political intrigues, but also contains subplots regarding physics, bio-enhancements, virtual computer networks, romance, mathematics, and military conflict as it is affected by supraluminal space travel.
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