480 pages
English language
Published May 5, 1996 by Baen, Distributed by Simon & Schuster.
480 pages
English language
Published May 5, 1996 by Baen, Distributed by Simon & Schuster.
Sick of combat, Cordelia Naismith is ready to settle down to a quiet life. But when the Emperor dies, Aral become guardian of the infant heir to the throne of Barrayar. Cordelia soon finds herself allied with Aral to keep the child safe from high-tech assassins engaged in a dynastic civil war fought with biowar technology.