Mistwalker (Discovery)

I have purchased traded and reread this book 6 or 7 times, I have done the same with series and books by David Webber, John Ringo, J.R.R. Tolkein, Barry Hughart and Jessica Amanda Salmonson... etc. My only regret is that this book is a stand alone.

The story revolves around the relationship between an exiled warrior prince the and the woman who first hires then heals and finally loves him. The story is set on a colony world beset by conflicts between first settlers and later immigrants, between green and hard technologies and between traditional and progressive social norders.