Toll of Honor

Toll of Honor is a stand alone novel set in David Weber's Honorverse.
It was published on April 2nd 2024.
Note: Much of the final three chapters of Toll of Honor were originally published as A Travesty of Nature in the Onward Libertycon anthology, though they appear here with significant retconning.
== Cover Summary ==
“It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength.” —Subhas Chandra Bose
Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo has come home from the Battle of Hancock station wounded in both body and spirit. She will need months to regenerate her lost leg, but how long will it take to heal her heart?
She’s come home to find that her wounds, her ship’s brutal damage, the deaths of so many friends, were the fault of an arrogant, aristocratic coward who broke and ran in the face of the enemy. Who left her ship to pay the price for his craven desertion under fire. And whose powerful political allies are determined to protect and preserve him at any price.
They have held the declaration of war hostage until Lord Pavel Young escaped the consequences of his cowardice. They didn’t care what it cost the Navy. They didn’t care what it cost the entire Star Kingdom of Manticore. Their tactics have cost the Royal Navy the priceless initiative as revolution and military purges wrack the People’s Republic of Haven, and that lost window of opportunity will cost the Star Kingdom seventeen years of bloody warfare and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
Now Young is free to seek vengeance on the people he feels have “wronged” him. People like Paul Tankersley and Honor Harrington. Paid duelists, smear tactics, hired assassins in public restaurants . . . . nothing is beneath Pavel Young. But Captain Harrington can look after herself, and Pavel Young is about to face the fury of the woman the newsies call the “Salamander.” Yet who will save the Star Kingdom from the consequences from the repercussions of his actions?
Women and men like Brandy Bolgeo are about to pay the toll for the Star Kingdom of Manticore’s honor.
== Plot ==
== References ==
=== Human Characters ===
Nouzar Abbasi | Hervé About | Hamish Alexander | William Alexander | Allenby | Kilian Ambros | Ingunn Androcles | Evelyn Ansari | Consuela Aria | Cristóbal Arias | Bryant Atwater | Iris Babcock | Lori Barrera | Danielle Barthet | Jason Bates | Cathal Berthelsen | Siún Berthelsen | Thorvald Berthelsen | Spencer Blair | Brandy Bolgeo | Linda Bolgeo | Tennessee Bolgeo | Timothy Bolgeo | Aaron Bozonnet | Ariella Brady | Janet Briscoe | Frederica Brunel | Jonathan Camille | James Candless | Thomas Caparelli | Carlson | Lev Carson | Jason Cartwright | Joseph Cartwright | Brian Chen | Callie Chijimatsu | Bethany Clark | Bethany Clinkscales | Constance Clinkscales | Howard Clinkscales | Rebecca Clinkscales | Alyce Cordwainer | Ernestine Corell | Lucien Cortez | Henri Costa | Dehnert | Jean-Luc Demaret | Marika Dietz | Jeremiah Dimitrieas | Marie-Claire Doisneau | Dombrosky | Laura Eccles | Chet Fletcher | Frederica | Désiré Fresnel | Jonathan Garrido | Élisa Geffroy | Petros Gianakis | Isaiah Gillespie | Patricia Givens | Sean Groener | Guccione | Julius Hanks | Horace Harkness | Alfred Harrington | Allison Harrington | Honor Harrington | Frouzan Hashemi | Ed Hatcher | Clint Hendren | Sonja Hemphill | Edward Winton-Henke | Michelle Henke | Susan Hibson | Yolanda Higgins | Bryant Hirsch | Byron Hunter | François Ivashko | Michael Janvier | Sergios Kappopoulos | Gunnar Karlal | Allen LaFollet | Andrew LaFollet | Kerwin LaFollet | Finnian Langenbucher | Gwen Lawrence | Camila Linton | Milorad Livitnikov | Joseph MacCann | James MacGuiness | Charlotte Mantooth | Conrad Masters | Milo Marchant | Simon Mattingly | Francine Maurier | Benjamin Mayhew | McBain | Isaac McCallum | Anderson McCloskey | Alistair McKeon | McTavish | Mercier-Pascal | Timmy Montoya | Guadalupe Moreno | Willard Neufsteiler | Cyrus Nijenkamp | Oliver O'Brien | Abdur Raheem O’Hanlon | Felicia O'Toole | Jasmine O’Toole | Ludovico Porter | Quinlan | Porthos Radeckis | Nicholas Riccardi | Yuri Rollins | Rossignol | Abelin Rummo | Georgia Sakristos | Wanda Saldaña | Eligio Samper | Mark Sarnow | Chris Scarborough | Carmella Secordo | Seseri | Lawrence Shakoor | Chelsea Simmons | Andre Simpson | Martin Stúdlin | Casper Southman | Jožefa Steigert | Allen Summervale | Denver Summervale | Frederica Tankersley | Paul Tankersley | Roland Tankersley | Arnold Teymoori | Benton Toscarelli | Prescott Tremaine | Marisa Turner | Richard Tyson | Allen Whalen | Tyler Whitworth | Erica Wilensky | Viktor Yestachenko | Dimitri Young | Pavel Young | Cristina Zaragoza 
=== Treecat Characters ===
Nimitz
=== Starships ===
HMS Argonaut | HMS Bellator | HMS Casey | HMS Cassandra | HMS Cestus | HMS Cyncnus | HMS Hero | HMS Hippogryph | HMS Hydra | HMS Hyperion | HMS Incorruptible | HMS Juan Navarro | HMS Landing City | HMS King Michael | HMS Kodiak Maximus | HMS Magician | PNS Martin Pelzer | HMS Montego | HMS Myrimidon | HMS Nike | HMS Paladin | HMS Pasteur | HMS Polyphemus | HMS Prince Adrian | HMS Prince Edward | HMS Princess Stephanie | HMS Prometheus | HMS Queen Caitrin | HMS Thunderer | HMS Timberwolf | HMS Trident | PNS Allégeance | PNS Martin Pelzer | PNS Montressor | PNS Véracité | HMS Victorious | HMS Vindicator
=== Space Stations ===
HMSS Hephaestus | Mathias Alpha | Mathias Gamma | Orbit One | Sigismund Alpha | Sigismund Beta | Sigismund Gamma | HMSS Vulcan 
=== Star Systems ===
Chelsea | Corrigan | Madras | Manticore | Mathias | Mendoza | Rindahl | Samson | Slocum | Welladay | Yeltsin's Star
=== Planets ===
Gryphon | Manticore | Pagovoyno | Petrel | Quelhollow | Smaragdenio | Sphinx 
=== Cities ===
Austin City | Harrington City | Liberty Crossing |
=== Star Nations ===
* People's Republic of Haven
* Protectorate of Grayson
* Samson System Republic
* Smaragdenio Republic
* Star Kingdom of Manticore
=== Other ===
Arduus Mountains | Barony of Eastlake | Barony of Montreau | Barony of New Flushing | Barony of Silver Stone | Barony of Triplett | Bassingford Medical Center | Brancusi Tower | Cargill Room | Case Riposte | Chez Berthelsen | Clarkson Guerriers | Coswell Protocol | Dreyfus Protocol | Earldom of Dabney | Earldom of Winstainley | Ellington Protocol | Gardienne class | Harrington Steading | Harrington Steadholder's Guard | Henderson Highlands | Inside Sources | Landing Opera House | Long Maneuver | Mayhew Steadholder’s Guard | Montresor | Noblesse class | Old Tillman Premium | Outfit | Quelhollow Mods | Roualeyn Corporation | Roualeyn Lodge | Shelton Cup | Slocum System Defense Force | Sphinx Forestry Service Youth League | Conclave of Steadholders | Sword Steading | Tannerman Ocean | Thorvald’s Place
== External Links ==
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