The Curse Of Chalion
by Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science fiction world in 1986 with the first of the Miles Vorkosigan Saga novels, SHARDS OF HONOR. She has won the Hugo award four times, and the Nebula award twice. In this, her first epic fantasy, we join Cazaril -- a former soldier and courtier -- who is about to embark on a perilous journey, rife with lethal treacheries, demonic magic, and scheming characters Having already created a classic hero in the form of Miles Vorkosigan, and captured a cult following the process, Lois McMaster Bujold now takes up her prolific pen to produce an epic of the most fantastic magnitude. A brilliant and detailed landscape populated with illustrious and demonic characters, ushers the arrival of a hero for the twenty-first century. Cazaril has seen more of the world than he ever wanted. He has been a soldier, a slave, a courier and courtier, and carries the graces and scars of all four to remind him. Now he returns to his childhood home with nothing more than the hope of a quiet retirement. What awaits him however, is a less peaceful, and possibly more dangerous, journey than any he ever anticipated

Lois McMaster Bujold's Bio

Lois McMaster Bujold burst upon the science fiction world in 1986 with the first of the Vorkosigan Saga novels, Shards of Honor, closely followed by The Warrior's Apprentice, which introduced Miles Vorkosigan, the hyperkinetic military genius with bones of glass. She has won an unprecedented four Hugo Awards for works in the Vorkosigan Saga. Bujold has published sixteen novels to date, all but one with Baen Books. The mother of two, Bujold lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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