Epic Space Opera

After the encounter with the merciless Ezeroc on Absalom Delta, Grace Gushiken and Nathan Chevell make a run for home. They have a new mission: to warn humanity. Aliens are real. And they are already among us. The crew of the free trader Tyche are hunted by men in black, fearsome fighters who share the Ezeroc’s powers. When the Tyche lands on Earth the ship’s placed on lockdown. Her crew are scattered and on the run. Without their ship or friends, Grace and Nate have no escape.

Barcus is a working stiff looking for a good paycheck. When the Ventura and its crew enter orbit for a scheduled planet survey, the ship activates an automated defense system protecting the planet. Although the Ventura is destroyed in the attack, Barcus alone survives the harrowing fall to the remote planet surface. He struggles to remain alive and sane and to discover why everyone he knew and loved on the Ventura was deliberately murdered.

The colonists of the planet Montana are accustomed to being ignored. Situated in the buffer zone between two rival human empires, their world is a backwater: remote, provincial, independently minded. Even as a provisional member of the Republic of Aligned Worlds, Montana merits little consideration - until it becomes the flashpoint in an impending interstellar war. When pirate raids threaten to destabilize the region, the RAW deploys its mechanized armored infantry to deal with the situation.

The Krox have finally reached their end game, and the sector will never be the same. Their relentless fleet darkens the skies of New Texas, home of the fabled Ternus shipyards. Their only hope lies with their sworn allies, the Shayans. But the Shayans refuse to help. Only Aran and his company can keep their leadership alive long enough for Voria to bring reinforcements and the fabled Spellship. If they fail, the entire world burns, and Ternus morale will collapse with it. But the war is merely a smokescreen for something much more sinister.

He was the system's most ruthless agent. Now, he's its only hope for revolution. Konrad Adler is a Reclaimer, the most feared and efficient auditor in the InterStellar Monetary Union (IMU). He is a ghost in the machine, a man who balances the galaxy's ledgers by foreclosing on failed colonies and repossessing starships, all to pay down an impossible debt that has enslaved his own family. His authority isn't a weapon; it's the fine print of a contract, and his conscience has been surgically excised. Empathy is a currency he cannot afford. His final assignment is his ticket to freedom: the ...

A disgraced hero. A galaxy on the brink. The fate of humanity lies in the balance. Kel Chaada was once a celebrated war hero—until his victories uncovered the dark secrets of humanity’s immortal rulers. Branded a fugitive and forced into exile, Kel flees to the edges of the galaxy, only to discover ancient alien civilizations with unimaginable powers. These forces could reshape the future of the Milky Way, but they come with a dangerous allure. When a new galactic threat emerges, Kel must decide: will he harness these newfound powers to protect humanity, or succumb to their temptation ...

For Orenthal James Farmholder, the universe was meant to be a place of quiet wonder. On the sheltered agricultural world of Ceres Prime, his hands knew the intricate rhythms of hydroponic farms, while his mind soared on the smuggled poetry and forgotten science of a lost Earth. He was a boy who could coax life from engineered soil and see a symphony in the flow of water and light. But the galaxy he dreamed of was a beautiful, fragile lie, and the real universe, the one of iron and blood, was coming for him. When the hulking warship Devastator blots out his sun, Oren’s peaceful world is ...

With reality being rewritten, is anything guaranteed - even survival? In this fourth book of the Eye of the Ocean series, two stories interweave. Yilli, a Pinnet memstrife, a holder of memories for her people, is called to the Spann world-altar, where she discovers that the Unity’s reality is already in the process of being rewritten by the events taking place on Alisim. Yilli’s changing memories frame the story of Amli, a human, and Jenna, her Pinnet lover, who live on Amber, a moon-sized organism trapped in Unity space as they seek Amber’s memories from her life in the greater ...

"...awesome book... kept me on my toes. I couldn't put it down." 5-star Amazon.com review "...absolutely recommend this to sci-fi lovers. If you are someone who loves to figure stuff out for yourselves and love a good world build, you would absolutely love this book." Goodreads Review Aliens, intergalactic civilizations, first contact, alternate realities, and more. Ruled by priests with the power to bend reality, the unchanging Drue empire spans galaxies. When the Spann Protectorate's powerful candidate challenges the current emperor and wins, her very nature introduces an element of chaos...

A magnificent combination of space opera and epic fantasy quest in the beloved science fantasy tradition of Andre Norton and C. J. Cherryh, author Jo Clayton’s masterful Diadem Saga begins with an unforgettable tale of destiny, self-discovery, survival, and an extraordinary young woman’s coming of age in a world that is not her own.

Descend into a universe of chaos and intrigue with Emergence, the second book of the Eye of the Ocean series. Ensnared by a powerful enemy, Ulanda, a priest of the empire, is trapped on her birth planet Alisim in the middle of a religious war between the Xintan nation and the Hegemony. When her arrival there fulfills a prophecy foretold by the Xintan, Ulanda must make alliances and establish her position in their new world order before the galactic empire's spaceships arrive. Rit Wilmet, a captain in the Olum Hegemony border patrol, is on the losing side of the religious war, but political ...

When money trouble forces Clarity and her traveling companion, Irohann, to take on passengers, Irohann worries his secret identity will be revealed. He's a canine alien on the run from an empire of sentient plants, and their queen has a personal vendetta against him. But Clarity believes his fears are unfounded and the Doraspians gave up on him long ago.

Carina Lin grew up alone and friendless, a slum brat afraid of revealing her mage power. Her life changed when she was picked up by a merc band and taught how to kill. The band’s next mission is a doozy: rescue a kid taken hostage by one of the most powerful clans in the galactic sector. When Carina takes part, she finds she faces an impossible decision. To save the kid, she must cast, but if her secret gets out, she faces slavery and torture. She rolls the dice, opening possibilities she’d never dreamed of, but only if she survives the fallout.

When treasure hunters excavate the long-lost wreck of the Steamship Arcadia from a Kansas corn field, a buried creature awakens - a mindless brute made of accursed earth, shaped like a man, but in no way mortal. A century and a half after its creation, the golem’s sole mission resumes: to assassinate a savage pro-slavery guerilla commander named “Bloody Bill” Wolcott. Wolcott, of course, is long dead, but his closest surviving descendant - a corporate IT burnout named Ben Middleton - is quite available.

The action-packed climax of the Iron Dragon saga! An ancient race of aliens threatens humanity with annihilation, and the only people who can stop them are a band of bloodthirsty Vikings. Recruited from Earth by one of the last survivors of the Iron Dragon project, Eric Bloodaxe and his horde battle machines and monsters across space and time on an epic voyage to Ragnarok!

Fernandez Edwardo Raphael Daniel Yates, or Zed as prefers to be called, is finally going home. Back to Earth; back to the land of the free and the home of the brave. His job is done. He has saved two worlds, three if you include Earth, from the ravening hordes of the Creednax, and he has even manage to save most of his crew, despite the long odds. His new, if very alien, starship is purring like a kitten, the young woman he loves is sitting at his side and all is well with the world. Or so he thinks for exactly eighty seven more seconds.

When Ulanda, Garm, and Rit are forced to flee the empire forces attacking Alisim, they emerge five thousand years later in a different area of space—and in an altered reality. They find refuge in Ji’jin Station, a remote space station, while trying to understand the changes that have taken place in the empire and what it means for their survival. Meanwhile, Empress Possaltic is having recurring nightmares of an alternative past where she was murdered and where the empire was under imminent threat of destruction by a rogue priest. Now, the empire faces the same danger. Third in the four-...

Boss, a loner, loved to dive derelict spacecraft adrift in the blackness of space...But one day, she found a ship that would change everything - an ancient Dignity Vessel - and aboard the ship, the mysterious and dangerous Stealth Tech. Now, years after discovering that first ship, Boss has put together a large company that finds Dignity Vessels and finds "loose" stealth technology. Following a hunch, Boss and her team come to investigate the city of Vaycehn, where 14 archeologists have died exploring the endless caves below the city.

In the year 2045, Earth teeters on the brink of destruction, facing a deadly invasion from the Void Reapers, a terrifying alien force. Amidst the chaos, an unexpected ally emerges—an advanced alien race known as the Luminians. Enter Dr. Zara Chen, a brilliant astrophysicist who volunteers to represent humanity and bridge the gap between Earth and its mysterious new allies. As Earth’s survival hangs in the balance, Zara must work alongside Arxon, the Luminians’ lead strategist, to unlock the ultimate planetary defense system. But as the clock ticks, their partnership evolves into a ...

Pernie Grayborn presses on in her march toward becoming an assassin and the instrument of the elves. But that process forces her onto another world, one where she is the alien. Worse, the distance threatens to destroy her chance of realizing her heart's true desire: the death of Orli Pewter and, with it, the chance to marry Sir Altin Meade. Altin and Orli are trapped on an alien spacecraft in which the laws of nature seemed to have abandoned them—and the laws of magic, too! If they can't escape on their own, it will be up to Roberto and the Glistening Lady to attempt a rescue.