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A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impoundedat Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the stationdocks involving a security officer from the convoy's Barrayaran military escort. Lord Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar and his wife, Lady Ekaterin, have other thingson their minds, such as getting home in time to attend the long-awaited birthsof their first children. But when duty calls in the voice of Barrayar's EmperorGregor, Miles, Gregor's youngest Imperial Auditor (a special high-leveltroubleshooter) has no choice but to answer. Waiting on Graf Station are diplomatic snarls, tangled loyalties, old friends, new enemies, racial tensions, lies anddeceptions, mysterious disappearances, and a lethal secret with widerconsequences than even Miles anticipates: a race with time for life againstdeath in horrifying new forms. The downside ofbeing a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back . ..