<p>Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan returns to the planet that changed her destiny in a new novel by multiple <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Lois McMaster Bujold.</p><p><i>Future imperfect</i></p><p>Three years after her famous husband’s death Cordelia Vorkosigan widowed Vicereine of Sergyar stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole admiral Sergyar Fleet finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he’d never imagined bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his life.</p><p>Meanwhile Miles Vorkosigan one of Emperor Gregor’s key investigators this time dispatches <i>himself </i>on a mission of inquiry into a mystery he never anticipated—his own mother.</p><p>Plans wills and expectations collide in this sparkling science fiction social comedy as the impact of galactic technology on the range of the possible changes all the old rules and Miles learns that not only is the future not what he expects neither is the past.</p>