For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and
its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful
People's Republic of Haven, and Commodore Honor Harrington
has been in the forefront of that war. But now Honor has
fallen, captured by the Peep Navy, turned over to the
forces of State Security ... and executed on the
interstellar network's nightly news. The Manticoran
Alliance is stunned and infuriated by Honor's death and
grimly resolved to avenge it. Yet their military is over-
extended and the People's Republic is poised to take the
offensive once more, this time with a new strategy, new
weapons, a new command team, and a whole new determination
to win. The war is about to enter a phase of unprecedented
ferocity ... and the Alliance is on the short end of the
stick. But even as powerful Peep fleets hurtle towards
their objectives, neither they nor the Alliance are aware
of events occurring on a distant, isolated, inescapable
prison planet called Hell. For what no one knows, not even
State Security, is that Honor Harrington is not dead. She
and a handful of her people are trapped on Hell, and
determined to disprove the Peep boast that no one can ever
escape it. Honor Harrington is going home, and taking her
people with her ... even if she has to conquer Hell to do
it.