Baen 2006. Hardback with dust jacket, 846 pp
Imperial Intelligence couldn't find them, the Imperial Fleet couldn't
catch them, and local defenses couldn't stop them. It seemed the
planet-wrecking pirates were invincible. But they made a big mistake
when they raided ex-commando leader Alicia DeVries' quiet home work,
tortured and murdered her family, and then left her for dead. Alicia
decided to turn "pirate" herself, and stole a cutting-edge AI ship from
the Empire to start her vendetta. Her fellow veterans think she's gone
crazy, the Imperial Fleet has shoot-on-sight orders. And of course the
pirates want her dead, too. But Alicia DeVries has two allies nobody
knows about, allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware computer, and a
creature from the mists of Old Earth's most ancient legends. And this
trio of furies won't rest until vengeance is served. In Fury Born is a
greatly expanded new version of David Weber's popular novel Path of the
Fury