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Guide Fourteen within the best selling Vorkosigan series. Chief Ivan Vorpatril is pleased with his fairly uneventful bachelor’s life of the personnel officer to a Barrayaran admiral.  Ivan, relative to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, isn't far down the genetic list for your emperorship.  Fortunately, fresh beneficiaries have aimed that frustration elsewhere, making Ivan to savor his life on Komarr, far in the Byzantine court politics of his house system.  Nevertheless when a classic buddy in Barrayaran intellect requires Ivan to safeguard an attractive young lady who might be on the hit list of the criminal syndicate, Ivan’s chivalrous character requires over.  It appears risk and experience have once more discovered Chief Vorpatril. Tej Arqua and her half-brother and slave Rish are running the violent overthrow of the group on free-for-all world Jackson’s Whole.  Today it appears Tej may use a concealed secret which actually she may not be aware.  It’s a secret that might corrupt one's heart of the respected Barayarran household and supply the ultimate benefit for the thugs who seek to overthrow Tej’s homeworld.  But none of Tej’s solid opponents have measured on Ivan Vorpatril.  For behind Ivan’s act of wry and self-effacing wit lies a genuine and crafty guard who'll never abandon a troubled woman in the lurch–up to and including creating the best sacrifice to preserve her from injury: the cherished and hard-gained independence from their own destiny as a scion of Barrayar.  About Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga:  “Fans have now been clamoring for Hugo champion Bujold to pencil a brand new Vorkosigan Saga book. .