When Enemies Become More than
Friends THEY WIN
In her
first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan
Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering
deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a
separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan he who was called
"The Butcher of Komarr"and would consequently become an outcast on her own
planet and the Lady Vorkosigan on his.
Sick of
combat and betrayal, she was ready to settle down to a quiet life, interrupted
only by the occasion ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. But
when the Emperor died, Aral became guardian of the infant heir to the imperial
throne of Barrayar and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war
that was reminiscent of Earth's Middle Ages, but fought with up-to-the minute
biowar technology. Neither Aral nor Cordelia guessed the part that their
cell-damaged unborn would play in Barrayar's bloody
legacy.
Publisher's Note: Cordelia's Honor is
comprised of two parts: Shards of Honor and Barrayar. Together they form a
continuous story following the life of Cordelia Vorkosigan nee Naismith from the
day she met her then-enemy Lord Aral Vorkosigan through the boyhood of her son
Miles. Barrayar won the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel of the
year.
- ISBN10 0671578286
- ISBN13 9780671578282
- Publish Date 14 September 1999 (first published 1 November 1996)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 29 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 608
- Language English