This Hugo-nominated novella adds a wonderful extra chapter to Bujold’s Vorkosigan series, describing the wedding of Miles and Ekaterin and events before it.

In the yuletide season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan is making elaborate preparations for his wedding. The long-awaited event stirs up love and intrigue among his eccentric relatives and buddies, especially for bioengineered space mercenary Sergeant Taura and shy, diffident Armsman Roic. But Mls also offers an enemy who is plotting to turn the intimate ceremony into a festival of loss of life.

Winterfair Gifts gives another of Bujold’s witty, character-centered research fiction plots using a twist of romance.