In some quarter of a future galaxy, Esmay Suiza is up for a court-martial, for reasons I won't go into. The result means she goes to her home planet Altiplano for a while, to interact with the large clan and social strictures she thought she had escaped a long time ago. What with a large family gathering, and her alone-time at the end of a long horse ride, the reader may forget he or she is reading science fiction, were it not for the ugly front cover of a soldier with her hi-tech helmet.
I would recommend the series (and, obviously, for you to start at the beginning, and not here) to anyone interested in a less gung-ho approach to a militaristic future. But remain aware - that softly-softly approach may have leached from the plot to the narration a little too much for your liking.
I would still like to thank the publishers for sending the Bookbag a copy to sample, but I have to tell someone that "a while" does exist as a phrase, and should not be one word so often incorrectly. We also have a review of [[The Serrano Succession by Elizabeth Moon]].