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