Welcome Again to the Many Worlds of Honor. Lady Dame Honor Harrington—starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess—has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against all comers. Along the way, she has become the legend known as “the Salamander” from her habit of always being where the fire is hottest… and also a national bestseller (Ashes of Victory: #7, “The Wall Street Journal”). But it’s a big universe, and Honor’s actions affect a lot of lives, not all of them human. And their actions affect her—a lesson “Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington” learns years before rising to command rank, when a desperate battle against “pirates” who aren’t quite what they seem begins her brilliant career. Closer to home, in...