
For eight bloody years the Star Kingdom of Manticore & its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People&s Republic of Haven & 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 & executed on the interstellar network&s nightly news The Manticoran Alliance is stunned & infuriated by Honor&s death & grimly resolved to avenge it Yet their military is over-extended & the People&s Republic is poised to take the offensive once more this time with a new strategy new weapons a new command team & a whole new determination to win The war is about to enter a phase of unprecedented ferocity & 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 & a handful of her people are trapped on Hell & determined to disprove the Peep boast that no one can ever escape it Honor Harrington is going home & taking her people with her even if she has to conquer Hell to do it