We're all familiar with space operas. Soft science fiction (some would say "science fantasy") that tends to be about battle in space, Absolution probably fits best under the umbrella of space opera books. It follows the story of a shape-changing spy called Arielle, who makes some bad mistakes in her early life and is driven by a pathological need to redeem herself, set in a world with very tenuous space travel and mostly near-future level technology.

Absolution is set among three dramatically different interstellar factions, one a monolithic religous culture locked in a strict autocratic government, another a social-democratic federation shaped by feminists, and the final one a bureaucratic colonial authority exiled from its own former capital by the rebellion of the other two factions. The tensions between these governments are bordering on open conflict, and spying and sabotague is the middle ground between a war that could end interstellar civilisation itself and standing by and letting someone else take the advantage.

Absolution is part-way through its first draft, but I am not actively working on it at the moment.