Even though a provisional veil of peace has fallen over human colonies, the quiet will not last. For as international alliances shift and Charis charges on with its precarious mission of global industrialization, the shifting plates of the new world order are bound to clash....

The bureaucrats known as the "Mandarins," who rule today's League, are not the men and women who founded it so long ago. They are corrupt, venal, accountable to no one...and they've decided the upstart Star Kingdom of Manticore must be destroyed....

Honor Harrington has been exiled to Basilisk station. The vindictive superior who sent her there wants her to fail. But he made one mistake: he's made her mad....

When Earth herself lay under siege by an enemy humankind could not defeat, mankind undertook one last throw of the dice: Operation Ark....

It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards conquest as the only option and a sneak attack as the best means to that end....

The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it....

No one wanted another war....

The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough....

Peril and strife strike on a double front for Honor Harrington and company....

The rulers of Haven are in trouble and revolt is brewing, so it's time for a short victorious war. But Honor Harrington is going to give them a war that's neither short nor victorious....