Flag in Exile

Captain Honor Harrington has withered away on the planet Grayson to assume the role of Steadholder while she attempts to mend her deep wounds. She was driven into retirement and shame by political foes, the murder of the man she loved broke her heart, and she lost all faith in her own abilities.

However, the People's Republic of Haven is emerging from defeat to pose a fresh danger to Grayson, and the newly formed Grayson Navy is in dire need of her skills. Honor is called to this task more than any other, but even as she returns to it, facing trials she feels she will be unable to overcome, strong men who detest and dread the changes she has brought about in their world are trying to undo them. Honor Harrington had to perish in order for their plot to work.

There is only one woman standing between her adoptive planet and its destruction—a woman who is exhausted, targeted for murder, and unsure of her own abilities—as two overwhelming forces race toward one other, determined to shatter Grayson.