her military opponents. However, she also makes new enemies. The name HMS Fearless is entered into the RMN's Roll of Honor, and Harrington is selected to command the new HMS Fearless, a Star Knight–class heavy cruiser, when it is launched. In the news In the second novel, The Honor of the Queen, Reginald Houseman becomes acting head of the Manticoran delegation to Grayson after the death of Admiral Courvosier in a Havenite/Masadan attack. Houseman panics and orders the illegal evacuation of Manticorans after the First Battle of Yeltsin. Houseman makes the mistake of personally threatening to ruin Harrington's career for refusing to follow his orders and abandon Grayson to her enemies. Harrington slaps Houseman hard enough to fling him across the room, then defeats a much stronger enemy force. Harrington receives a letter of reprimand for striking Houseman, but is also knighted, awarded several medals, ennobled by Grayson as one of its few Steadholders, and further ennobled in the Star Kingdom as Countess Harrington. After a year's convalescent leave, having lost her eye in the defense of Grayson, she is given the newly commissioned, state-of-the-art battlecruiser Nike and made flag captain of a new squadron, before again encountering Pavel Young. Prior to Captain Young's arrival at the forward base called Hancock Station, Harrington had become romantically involved with his former executive officer, whom Young blames in part for troubles he experienced after trying to strike back at Harrington in the first book. Attached to a cruiser squadron assigned as screening elements for her battlecruiser squadron in The Short Victorious War, Young disobeys Harrington's explicit orders (after she takes command upon the incapacitation of Admiral Mark Sarnow in combat) and flees in the book's climactic space battle, resulting in additional Manticoran deaths and losses, when Haven finally begins the war long expected by both sides. A political target Field of Dishonor begins with Young's court-martial and cashiering, and continues with his decision, as Lord North Hollow, to take revenge upon Harrington, the RMN, and Paul Tankersley. North Hollow pays a professional duelist to goad Tankersley into a duel to hurt Harrington, then kill her afterwards. Captain Tankersley is killed while Harrington is away on Grayson to be invested as Steadholder Harrington and learn her duties and responsibilities. An infamous duelist With North Hollow's involvement in Tankersley's death uncovered, Harrington kills North Hollow's hired gun in a duel, terrifying Young with the