Shards of Honor
Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was expecting the  unexpected: hexapods, floating creatures, odd parasites... She was not,  however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And  she wasn't really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian  known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr. Will Mother  ever understand? And can such an odd beast as love survive an  interplanetary war?--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.