Adult Space Opera

He had taken over as Captain of The Explorer. This was a ship of exploration and protection. This time they would be doing both. The planet, Evander, was the location chosen for a new colony. A team had been sent to set things up for the colonists that would be arriving from Earth. The Explorer would be escorting the colony ship, Persimmon, to the planet and protect them as they set up their colony and found ways to protect themselves.

Jeanine is on the run from someone very powerful. She doesn’t know who wants her dead, or why. She only knows they have already killed her family, and if they catch her, she’s next. Drake’s family was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, he drifts from spaceport to spaceport, searching for cargo and running from the grief he can never escape. When Jeanine barrels into Drake’s life, he must push aside his grief and run with her. But time is not their ally. When they cannot run from their enemies, Jeanine's and Drake's only hope is to run toward those enemies. Their only hope is...

The year is 2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation, and the only way out is up. While the world's leaders, scientists, and engineers oversee the frantic production of a space fleet meant to save humankind, their children are brought in for a weekend of touring the Lazarus|a high-tech prototype spaceship. But when the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule, First Daughter Leigh Chen and a handful of teens from the tour are the only ones to escape the planet.

Tensions are rising between the Quatrans and the Specters, and the Quatra Fleet is gearing up for an epic fight. With a galaxy on the brink of war and loyalties divided, the friendship of four cadets will be tested. Orelia has been arrested for espionage, and her future is looking bleak...until the Quatrans make her a surprising offer that could save her life - and the lives of everyone in the galaxy. Reeling from his breakup, Arran finds comfort in a sympathetic boy from Loos, someone who understands how hard it can be to fit in.

Why had Razar picked their crew to make this journey to an uninhabited planet? He wished for information on it and an opinion of if it was worth the trouble to colonize with humans. Zoop might be useful since he was the science officer, but it seemed to her the rest of them would be no help at all. She had no idea that she was about to go on the journey of a lifetime. Hopefully, they would come out the other end alive and well.

Nomads 2 Dark Land After the Zora’s mission comes to an abrupt end, Dominic Porter decides to turn his back on the fleet and start a new life. Together with Ellena Green and Monica Simmons, he makes his way home, back to his family. But the journey harbors innumerable dangers that neither he nor his two companions could have expected ... NOMADS This is what the people from earth are called by the many races of the Milky Way. As survivors and refugees, the NOMADS try to assert themselves between the cultures of the galaxy, which is called ASGAROON by its inhabitants. Many of the NOMADS ...

After defeating Camille and Raven Fairbanks and freeing the Starborn children on Gamma Five, Megan Willis suffered a great loss. A transport beam disintegrated her father and sent him to a strange jungle planet called Delta Zero. Megan has to find him at all costs. Many barriers stand in her way. A great evil is brewing on Delta Zero—a bramble bee mine where enslaved children risk their lives to harvest the bees’ valuable glowsap, following the orders of a mysterious slave master named Omen.

IF THERE'S ONE THING ADAM ECKHART KNOWS, IT'S THAT HUMANS ARE TROUBLE. He should know. He is one. As captain of the Marathon, a cobbled-together ship crewed by aliens and androids scraping by on odd jobs at the outskirts of settled space, Adam has plenty to worry about without adding his own species to the mix. But when a pair of mortally wounded humans cross his path during a heist gone wrong, he finds himself compelled to save them. Big mistake. Because if there's one more thing Adam knows, it's that the universe never leaves a good deed unpunished. He and his crew are about to find out ...

The ongoing adventures of the Marathon, a gunship with a crew long on exotic creatures and short on common sense. They (almost) always get the job done. Eventually. Envoy is the ninth and final book in the Marathon series, an action-packed carnival ride of a space opera that will leave you breathless.

In the outliers of the Turinth Galaxy, Talia Boone embarks on a tedious, mindless mission to repair outpost communication buoys. Talia likes her solo expeditions - no micromanagement, no small talk, and no one to share her hidden stash of vodka. But when the mission goes awry and her cruiser malfunctions, isolation can have deadly consequences.

The Star Stone... Royal sigil. Mystical arbiter of succession. Proof of divine royal authority. Would-be enslaver of all mankind. Three women stand against the ancient artifact—rebel slicer, Jana, her cat burgling best friend, Tilly, and the Duchess of Neert, Jeanine, sworn enemy of the royal family. Forced to act in haste and facing the full might of the Star Kingdom, how can the women possibly prevail?

After beating almost insurmountable odds, Jeanine has laid claim to her birthright: the largest duchy in the Star Kingdom. As Jeanine's sworn enemy, Princess Olivia, distances the royal family from direct confrontation with the new Duchess, a new enemy arises. When Jeanine and Olivia are both kidnapped, their husbands -- Drake and Prince William -- must bury the hatchet and work together to rescue the women they love. The Recognition Rejection continues the star-spanning saga of royalty and revenge that began in Vogel's award-nominated novel, The Recognition Run, with the same flair for ...

Alyssa Farshot never wanted to rule the empire. But to honor her uncle’s dying wish, she participated in the crownchase, a race across the empire’s 1,001 planets to find the royal seal and win the throne. Alyssa tried to help her friend Coy win the crownchase, but just as victory was within their grasp, Edgar Voles killed Coy - and claimed the seal for himself.

With Coseema off planet, Olive has bought herself some time—but the clock is ticking. After a risky rescue mission, she and her friends make their way to the center of the rebellion against Emperor Burnash, who is desperate to capture Olive and claim her power for his own. Without her journal, Olive must rely on her newfound courage to elude Burnash and help her friends. But that courage is put to the test as she and Coseema clash in a final showdown—one that will decide the fate of a star system.

Shane and Ava are a team. He steals the aircraft, she charms their mark, and together they take what they need. Not even their distracting chemistry could get in the way. Until Shane was caught and left to rot on a prison moon. Now, freshly escaped from confinement, he has his sights set on their biggest job yet. Cyrus just graduated from the flight academy with a shiny new position lined up reporting to a well-respected general. On his very first assignment, he stops the outlaws in their tracks—or he would have, if his copilot, Lark, hadn’t fallen for Ava’s deception.

The ongoing adventures of Taggart and his motley crew of family, friends, and on-again, off-again enemies as they try to stop a cataclysmic disaster from befalling the galaxy. Valor is the fourth book in the Emberling series, an action-packed carnival ride of a space opera that will leave you breathless.

The adventure in Nearspace continues with an odd family reunion for a summer holiday: Jem, an eight-year-old whizz kid on a quest to see a “Space gang girl”, blasts in accompanied by a reluctant chaperone, his 16-year-old stepbrother Tim, who wants a last chance to forgive his birth father — or forget him for good. The edgy conversation over the dinner table soon turns sour, and Harvie’s sharp tongue leaves deep marks on Tim’s sensitive heart that’s already scarred by his father’s combatant past. The past, that is catching up with Stan Kozerski at the space cruiser’s speed. ...

The Honor might have survived the first encounter with the Nazuc, but it won't be the last. Before the next engagement, Captain Masters and his ad hoc crew will need to find help. But will anyone beyond the belt be interested in joining the fight? Beyond the Belt is the second book in the Honor in Exile series, which features plenty of aliens, action, and the worst—and best—of humanity.

World War III looming: Zombies, Aliens, and Intergalactic War. The world is on the brink of destruction and it's time for our heroes to take a stand. With an alien invasion looming and a corporation intent on causing chaos, the stakes have never been higher. Arthur, Elliot, Millicent, and Stanley must come together to stop Hellinix from goading the aliens into a full-scale invasion. But with the added threat of zombie outbreaks and the Zadnitsian government driving NATO into World War III, the task seems impossible. As the heroes navigate their way through a dangerous web of secrets and ...

I'm Jace O'Malley, back from the outer reaches of civilization. My adventures have only just begun. Dad's paralyzed, and I'm starting at a new school. Yeah, socialization. Fun. But things at school take a drastically terrible turn. Soon, I'm on the run for my life, and make all kinds of discoveries better left in the past. Hopefully I'll survive this mess! Join me on my latest adventure!