Teaser Tuesday: Shadow of Freedom by David Weber

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week I pulled Shadow of Freedom by David Weber off TBR Mountain. I have been reading the Honor Harrington science fiction series since the beginning. This is book number 18. The main character in this story is Michelle Henke, Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin, Honor Harrington's best friend, and the commanding officer of Manticore's Tenth Fleet. I am expecting the usual political maneuvering with space battles and lots of appearances from favorite characters from earlier books in the series. 

Teaser:

Vice Admiral Gold Peak stood in the late-night quiet of her day cabin in a pair of comfortably worn sweats and fluffy purple treecat bedroom slippers. Her shoulders were hunched, her hands were shoved deep into her sweat shirt's pockets, and she glowered—undeniably, she glowered—at the outsized holographic display.