**edited 11/28/13 
 Cordelia Naismith, Beta Colony, is on a standard surveying expedition when she returns to camp to find the camp ransacked, one of her crew dead, and the savage Barrayarans after her and her men. When she is captured by Aral Vorkosigan, she fears the worst: to the easy-going, progressive, egalitarian Betans, the totalitarian, honor-obsessed Barrayarans are savage, murdering rapists. And now she is being forced to travel with one. But she soon begins to fall for Vorkosigan's bizarrely endearing awkward charms, even as she begins to uncover a secret plot that puts her entire colony at risk. 
 ...And that's all I'm going to post here. 
 The rest of my (rather verbose) review is posted over here at Booklikes. 
 Why? 
 I strongly disapprove of GoodReads' new policy of censorship, so I will no longer post complete reviews here. 
 (The link brings you to a summary of The Story So Far, which has facts and links so you can make up your own mind about the GR debacle.)