The Better Part of Valor — Tanya Huff

NEVER TELL A TWO-STAR GENERAL WHAT YOU REALLY THINK OF HIM....

That was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr had made with General Morris. But as a battle-hardened professional, she took pride in doing her job and getting her troops back alive. So after she'd saved the mission to bring the Silsviss into the Confederation--instead of losing them and their world to the enemy known only as the Others--she let the general know exactly how she felt.

And Torin's reward--or punishment--was to be separated from her platoon and sent off on what might well prove an even more perilous assignment. She was commandeered to protect a scientific expedition to a newly discovered and seemingly derelict spaceship of truly epic proportions. And Confederation politics had saddled her with a commanding officer who might prove more of a menace to the mission's success than anything they encountered.

Only time would tell if the ship was what it appeared to be, or a trap created by the Others--or the work of an as yet unknown alien race with an agenda that could prove all too hostile to other life-forms....