The books in the series take place in a single imagined universe and revolve around the story of one family—the surname of which these novels also use as their collective title: “The Saga of Forkosigan.” Most of these books are devoted to the adventures of Miles Forkosigan, the son of a high-ranking aristocrat from the militarized planet Barrayar.
Mark, Miles’s clone brother, impersonates Admiral Naismith in order to carry out an attack on the Jackson’s Archipelago. But the operation ends in catastrophe. Miles, who rushes to the rescue, is killed, his body is placed in a cryogenic chamber, yet the chamber disappears without a trace. Miles’s parents are in despair; the search is carried out across the entire Galaxy…