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Three years after her famous husband’s death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral of the Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he’d never imagined, bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his career.
Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor’s key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission of inquiry,...
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Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff receives the assignment to escort the body of the late Prince Boleso, along with his apparent murderer, the orphaned Lady Ijada, to Kingstown to assist in quelling the political unrest threatening to erupt. With the impending death of the Hallow King and the succession in question, Ingrey must ascertain the truth behind Boleso's death to insure the survival of the kingdom and of the woman he has come to love. Library Journal...
4) Horizon
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In a world where malices--remnants of ancient magic--can erupt with life-destroying power, only soldier-sorcerer Lakewalkers have mastered the ability to kill them. But Lakewalkers keep their uncanny secrets--and themselves--from the farmers they protect, so when patroller Dag Redwing Hickory rescued farmer girl Fawn Bluefield, neither expected to fall in love, join their lives in marriage, or defy both their kin to seek new solutions to the perilous...
5) Beguilement
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Fawn Bluefield leaves her family's farm to find work in Glassforge, but when she encounters a group of Lakewalkers, soldier-sorcerers from the woodland culture to the north, Fawn finds herself pulled into a perilous battle against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as "malices".
7) Falling free
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Engineer Leo Graf is devoted to the safety regulations he helped write, but his outlook changes when he is assigned to the Cay Habitat and finds himself in a situation in which doing the right thing means breaking the rules.
8) Komarr
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Imperial Auditor Lord Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr to investigate an accident in which a solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the planet was shattered by a runaway spaceship, but he finds himself unwelcome in the domed cities and must hasten to stop a plot that could result in his exile.
9) Legacy
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Ill-chance brought young Fawn Bluefield together with Dag Redwing Hickory, the seasoned soldier-sorcerer, but it was love and loyalty that joined their fates. While their unorthodox marriage has been grudgingly accepted by the clever farm girl's people, Dag's Lakewalker kin are less tolerant, greeting their union with derision, suspicion, and prejudice.
10) Memory
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Secret agent Miles Vorkosigan struggles to deal with life outside the Barrayaran Imperial Security force after he is dismissed for lying about his health problems, but he finds a new mission when agency chief Simon Illyan begins having problems of his own which could have devastating consequences for Barrayar.
11) Cryoburn
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When a Kibou-daini cryocorp--an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future--attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan to check it out.
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Capt. Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. But when an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive young woman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, Ivan's chivalrous nature takes over. It seems adventure and danger has found him again.
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When a rich Komarran merchant fleet is impounded at Graf Station after a bloody incident on the station docks, the fleet's crew must face diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, and deception before they are allowed to return home.
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Fawn Bluefield leaves her family's farm to find work in Glassforge, but when she encounters a group of Lakewalkers, soldier-sorcerers from the woodland culture to the north, Fawn finds herself pulled into a perilous battle against inhuman and immortal magical entities known as "malices".
15) Barrayar
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Following her marriage to the notorious 'Butcher of Komarr', Lord Aral Vorkosigan, Captain Cordelia Naismith has become an outcast on her own world. Sick of combat and betrayal, she is ready to settle down to a quiet life on Barrayar, interrupted only by the occasional ceremonial appearances required of the Lady Vorkosigan. At least, that was the plan...With the death of the emperor, Aral has become Regent for the infant heir to the throne of Barrayar,...
16) Cetaganda
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Miles Vorkosigan and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda on a diplomatic mission, but get in trouble when Miles tries to discover the truth about the death of the empress's attendant and Ivan gets involved with a few too many women.
17) Brothers in arms
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Mercenary Captain Miles Naismith finds himself out of work when peace breaks out all over the planet of Barrayar, and the only thing keeping him busy is trying to discover who wants him dead.
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"When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father. Pen and Des will need all their combined talents of mind and magic to unravel the mysteries of the sisters and escape from the pirate stronghold."--Publisher's description.
19) Ethan of Athos
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Dr. Ethan Urquhart, faced with a crisis when the all-male planet of Athos is threatened with extinction, must brace himself for his first encounter with a female of his own species.
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An unholy attack upon his brother-in-law General Arisaydia pitches sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona headlong into the snake-pit of Cedonian imperial politics. But they will not travel alone. The mission from his god brings Penric some of his strangest new allies yet, and the return of some of his most valued old ones.
This novel-length story takes place two years after the events of “The Physicians of Vilnoc”.
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