The Host and His Guests:
-- David Weber himself is on board, first telling how young Honor Harrington and her treecat Nimitz faced the impossible task of rescuing the victims of an avalanche in a sub-zero blizzard, then revealing a chapter in the history of the telepathic treecats when a young human who bonded with a treecat was a Very Important Person. Specifically, she was a Manticoran crown princess and the heir to the throne of the empire....
-- Roland Green offers a hard-hitting account of what happened when Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven went eyeball-to-eyeball over a strategically vital planet....
-- Linda Evans looks at life among the treecats, before Honor....
-- Jane Lindskold tells how Honor's monarch, Elizabeth III, had to learn the hard way what monarchy is all about....