- Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series! Captain IvanVorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staffofficer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter MilesVorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully,new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his lifeon Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system. But when anold friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive youngwoman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, Ivan's chivalrousnature takes over. It seems danger and adventure have once more found CaptainVorpatril!
- ISBN10 1451638450
- ISBN13 9781451638455
- Publish Date 3 December 2012 (first published 1 November 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English