Family Operas

He stole my freedom to save his honor. I’ll steal his heart to reclaim my future. Alexandra This is not how my story ends. I’m Alexandra Turner—Manhattan-born, Prada-bred, and impossible to break. Sure, my bank account might be empty, my credit cards maxed out, and now I’m abducted by some muscle-bound alien brute. He watches me like I’m his prize, but if he thinks I’ll play along, he’s delusional. Fine, he stole me. Big deal. I know how to survive, and I’m not above playing dirty to win. He’s all brawn and fury, but there’s something in his gaze that stirs me—a ...

She’s a pirate captain fighting for freedom. She’s the scientist who built the empire’s deadliest weapon. To save the galaxy, they’ll have to trust each other. Captain Xylia is a legend and a ghost, a rogue pirate carving out a life of defiance in a galaxy choked by the tyrannical, patriarchal Commonwealth. With her loyal all-female crew aboard the formidable Stardust Siren, she strikes at the heart of the empire, liberating oppressed worlds and fighting for a future she’s not sure can exist. Dr. Adelia Reyes is a mind without equal, trapped by her own genius. The revolutionary ...

They came to train. They found a war that began 50,000 years ago. In the swirling crimson mists of the Carmine Nebula, what starts as a routine training mission for Crix Nakato and his navigator protégé, Izzy, turns into a nightmare. A haunting disturbance in the Vermillium network—what Izzy can only describe as screaming—triggers echoes of an ancient threat long thought vanquished. When Pixel, the strange fox-like companion linked to Izzy, begins to change, the danger becomes impossible to ignore. Called back to the heart of the Navigator Collective, Crix must confront a chilling ...

Out from under my brother’s thumb, I want only one thing: survive. Falling for my green protector? Definitely not part of the plan. Elyssa I’ve spent my life under my brother’s iron control. When I finally escape, my goal is simple: deliver the data I stole to the one person I can trust. But fate has other ideas. An explosion leaves me stranded and surrounded by my brother’s vengeful gang. Desperate, I have no choice but to trust the last male I should—a green-skinned, feral warrior who’s as deadly as he is tempting. Tass claims he’s here to protect me, but the look in his ...

They can rip me apart, but they’ll never tear me from her. Tyrxie I didn’t know I was human until Xandor told me, promising to show me Earth after his mission. But aboard the Mutalisk's Hammer, Scythian drones attack. My fated mate saves me and the crew, but his reckless heroics crashes him onto Nebia—enemy territory. Through our bond, I feel his pain, his life slipping away, and I’ve spent too long running to lose him now. If the Nebians won’t listen, I’ll save him myself, no matter the cost. Xandor risked everything for me. I’ll do the same for him. Xandor Krogoth didn’t ...

“A galaxy on the edge. A prophecy buried in ruins. A love that could rewrite history.” When archaeologist Alex uncovers a strange crystalline artifact on the forgotten planet of Epsilon Prime, he expects a career-making discovery—not visions of a lost civilization and cryptic warnings of cosmic catastrophe. As the artifact pulses with power and begins revealing fragments of an ancient prophecy, Alex teams up with Maya, a local guide with ancestral ties to the ruins, to unlock its secrets. Together they assemble a team of rebels, scientists, and misfits to unravel the truth—but ...

Galactic Mayhem Meets an Unlikely Hero He’s an accidental captain; she’s a stunning alien genius. Love, adventure, humor, and cosmic secrets entwine in this star-swept odyssey! Carson Twiddle hadn’t planned on his day being interrupted by a sentient cube. Then again, nothing in his life ever went according to plan. A file clerk with no ambition and even less confidence, Carson was content with his unremarkable life—until a database error accidentally erased all record of his existence. By an obscure bureaucratic twist of fate, he's suddenly promoted to captain of the Rusty Bucket, a...

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.

HUMANITY HAS FALLEN. ONLY ONE SHIP CAN SAVE US. After a disastrous encounter with an alien species, Captain Roc Masters finds himself exiled on a rundown station in the asteroid belt, commanding an ancient starship with a near-mutinous crew. Just as he finally resigns himself to his fate, the aliens return to attack Earth. With the inner worlds crumbling and most of the Earth and Martian navies sidelined or destroyed, it's up to Roc and his lone starship to hold the line. He knows he must gather together what little humanity there is beyond the asteroid belt and make a stand against the ...

When Charise Lee, a young Asian Canadian soprano, is found stabbed in the heart backstage during rehearsals, she suddenly goes from scarcely being seen as a star to taking center stage. Georgetown law professor Mac Smith thought he'd just be carrying a rapier in Tosca as a favor to his beloved Annabel, but now they're both being pressured by the panicked theater board to unmask a killer. Providing accompaniment will be former homicide detective, current P.I., and eternal opera fan Raymond Pawkins.

In a future where humanity has merged with technology, Alexander Prime awakens from stasis to a world he no longer recognizes. Transformed into a bio-machine and stripped of his legacy by distant relatives who have seized control of Earth, he chooses exile over subjugation. Accompanied by Veronica, a sophisticated quantum AI with a human-like persona, Alexander sets course for the uncharted territories of the HD 69830 system. As they traverse the cosmos, Alexander and Veronica forge an unbreakable bond, transcending the boundaries between human and artificial intelligence. Together, they ...

Lee's parents and their business partner, Gordon, found a class A habitable planet. They thought their quest as explorers was over and they'd live a life of ease. But before they could return and register their claim, Lee's parents died doing a survey of the surface. That left Lee two-thirds owner of the claim and their partner Gordon obligated by his word with her parents to raise Lee. She had grown up aboard the ship with her uncle Gordon and he was the only family she'd ever known. Him adopting her was an obvious arrangement to them.

Fleeing the Solar System after an attack by North America, the three Home habitats now have to seek their own fortunes. Heather, Sovereign of Central on the Moon, saved them, but now has to make certain the USNA can never threaten them again. What was a tentative research partnership with the Red Tree Clan of Derfhome becomes a full alliance of equals. Lee finds she has to grasp authority and act for the Red Tree Mothers and herself to repossess the planet Providence she and Gordon discovered, while the Claims Commission on Earth has collapsed without the leadership of North America.

THE EPIC CONCLUSION! Forever Family is the fifth and final book in the Thunderstrike series, which chronicles the adventures of a ragtag group of aliens on the run in a dangerous universe. If you like aliens of all shapes and sizes, playful banter and dark humor, plus endless space battles, you'll love it! -- Note: This series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you're interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you're looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you.

Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. Babel's initial attack left their home city in ruins, but that was just part of the Imago's plan. They knew one thing Babel didn't. This world is coming to an end. Eden's two moons are on a collision course no one can prevent. After building eight secret launch stations, the Imago hoped to lure Babel down to their doomed planet as they left it behind. A perfect plan until the Genesis team's escape route was destroyed.

After thwarting a space station disaster and planetary destruction, the Ambit crew thought turning Isaiah Drestyn over to the Union would be the end of their troubles. Turns out, it’s only the start. Drestyn is a walking encyclopedia of dirty secrets, and everyone wants a piece of him—the Trust, the Union, even the Guild. Someone wants him bad enough to kill, and with the life of one of their own on the line, the Ambit crew must jail-break the very man they helped capture and expose some of the secrets he’s been keeping before it’s too late.

Rev. Lucy Bartlett’s life couldn’t be more perfect. She’s turned around her crumbling church. She’s finishing her doctorate and publishing her first book. Best of all, she is engaged to marry her soulmate, Dr. Liz Stolz. Once a world-famous opera singer, Lucy has been coaching the church’s transgender music director, who hopes to relaunch her career as a natural alto. When Denise lands an audition with a major orchestra, she knows that the conductor is only using her to lure Lucy into performing again. To show her support, Lucy agrees to do the concert, but after the triumphant ...

Emmett Atwater thought Babel's game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn't take long for him to learn that Babel's competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one. Now Emmett and the rest of the Genesis spaceship survivors must rally and forge their own path through a new world. Their mission from Babel is simple: extract nyxia, the most valuable material in the universe, and play nice with the indigenous Adamite population. But Emmett and the others quickly realize they are caught between two powerful forces.

All her life, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the destruction of planet Earth. Raised on Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. Then Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons, and she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.

When the Galactic Horizon intercepts a mysterious distress signal from beyond charted space, Captain Arius knows it’s no ordinary call for help—it’s a lure. With tensions mounting across the fleet and whispers of a shadow network spreading through the outer sectors, every decision could tip the balance between survival and annihilation. As the ship races toward the source, Arius and his crew are thrust into a dangerous game of deception, facing rogue factions, hostile worlds, and a threat that hides in plain sight. The signal carries secrets capable of shaking the foundations of the ...