Publisher's blurb: Nestled in the wide frontiers of Lyran space, Kaumberg is a pastoral world known mostly for its woodlands and little else. But just below the mundane surface lies a world of political intrigue, its fortunes and falls tied inextricably to those of the Commonwealth to whom its rulers serve. Collective masters of one of the region’s strongest independent defense forces, the barons of Kaumberg stand ever-ready to protect their world and its neighbors from any Periphery threat that comes their way—but only as long as their own internal intrigues don’t get in the way.