Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold

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.--From source other than Library of Congress.

313 pages · Published: 1986-01-01 · Genres: Science Fiction, Space, Adventure, War, Classics, Romance, Fiction, Fantasy