Test of Honor

This early Science Fiction Book Club omnibus pairs Lois McMaster Bujold's first two Vorkosigan novels: Shards of Honor, in which Betan survey officer Cordelia Naismith is taken prisoner by a Barrayaran captain she comes to trust more than her own side, and The Warrior's Apprentice, which follows their son Miles into his disastrous, glorious first command. Together they lay the emotional and political groundwork the rest of the saga builds on.