The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns, and better devices of all sorts - Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef - and broke them.

A sequel to Crown of Slaves .

Presents a story of humanity reduced, by an implacable alien enemy, to inhabiting a single colony on the distant world of Safehold. With mind control and hidden high technology, this title built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, one designed to keep Safehold society medieval and unnoticed forever.

A ticket to the many worlds of one of the New York Times bestselling author.

Rear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle. The odds were against the Star Kingdom forces, and they had to run. But Michelle's ship was crippled, and had to be destroyed to prevent superior Manticoran technology from falling into Havenite hands.

It began with two men. They came from very different worlds - entirely different universes, in fact - one using sorcery and the other using mental powers and steam-age technology. They met in a virgin forest on a duplicate planet Earth. Neither side knows who shot first, but each blames the other, and it doesn't really matter, now, because war has begun.

The Union of Arcana has expanded through the portals linking parallel universes for over a century and a half. In that time, its soldiers and sorcerers have laid claim to one uninhabited planet after another - all of them Earth.

No one wanted another war. Thomas Theisman didn't. Baron High Ridge didn't. His Imperial Majesty Gustav didn't. Honor Harrington didn't. The Andermani Emperor has plans for Silesia. And the Prime Minister of Manticore is happy with the war he has. Unfortunately, what they want doesn't matter.

For really tough jobs, Emperor Colin, is your man. The only person in the galaxy ever to stop the genocidal Achuutani, he resurrected an empire that died 45,000 years ago. But the rest of the galaxy better brace itself, because his progeny are on the way. Not that Sean and Harriet aren't nice kids; it's just that they've had a bad day.

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Five thousand years later, in the time of the Fourth Interstellar War, his advice still makes perfect sense. The Bugs have a superior drive technology, overwhelming numbers, and a strategy that is mind-numbingly alien. For the humans and their allies, the Orions, choosing their strategy was as easy as One-Tzu-Three: Fight!

While the Thirty Years War rages on, a new force emerges in central Europe - the Confederated Principalities of Europe. This is an alliance between King Gustavus of Sweden and the West Virginians, led by Mike Stearns, who were hurled into 17th-century Germany by a mysterious time warp.

And, just to put the icing on the cake, the radical freed slave organization, the Audubon Ball-room, is also on the scene-led by its most notorious killer, Jeremy X.

Here is David Weber again, accompanied by some of the top science fiction writers in the field - including John Ringo, Eric Flint, Timothy Zahn and Weber himself - with new adventures of the best starship commander in the galaxy.