Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (2016)

Cordelia Vorkosigan has political authority, an adult family and a long marriage behind her when she starts deciding what she wants next. Bujold treats later-life desire and reproductive choices as serious business, with humour in the complications. The pace is conversational. Shards of Honor and Barrayar introduce Cordelia earlier in life; this late Vorkosigan entry gains force from her history and reveals major events from the intervening books.