The Complete Chalion
Page 140
He snickered and released her. “Aye, to bed then, for the sake of our posterity!”
“And I can thaw my feet on your back,” she added practically.
Ingrey yipped in mock-dismay, and was graced with her fairest laugh yet. The sound lifted his heart like a promise of dawn, in this longest night of the year.
Arm in arm, they descended the snowy steps.
One of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold burst onto the scene in 1986 with Shards of Honor, the first of her tremendously popular Vorkosigan Saga novels. She has received numerous accolades and prizes, including the Nebula (Falling Free), four Hugo Awards for Vest Novel (The Vor Game, Barrayar, Mirror Dance, and, most recently, Paladin of Souls), and the Hugo and Nebula Awards for her novella The Mountains of Mourning. She has, in fact, won more Hugo Awards for Best Novel than any other author woth the exception of Robert A. Heinlein, with whom she has tied. Her novel The Curse of Chalion was on the final ballots for both the Hugo and the World Fantasy Awards for Best Novel and it won the Mythopoeic Award. The mother of two, Bujold lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.