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Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself.

I loved Laney Landers before most people learned to read. Blonde hair, blue eyes that rivaled the ocean, and an invisible halo over her head. She stole my heart the same day she threw sand in my face. What started as a friendship grew into so much more. I thought she'd be my forever. But then life threw me a curveball and I changed course. Laney moved on and found a different happily ever after . . . while I wallowed in grief and regret. And now she's here, reminding me that I made the biggest mistake of my life.

Following the unexplained failure of the first human exo-planet colony, Dhank Trust calls upon the Peacekeepers to lead humanity's second endeavor to colonize among the stars. With its location on a different planet, al-Sufi C, the Bakht Colony appears to be the starting point for humanity's future. The only problem is that a reptilian race known as the Hlinan also inhabits the planet. Krysta Evreux, known as "Lone Wolf," must lead the Peacekeepers in defending the colonists against dangerous wildlife and the reptilian aliens who view the humans as their religious curse.

For the first time in history, UN peacekeeping troops are amassing at the northern border. Marshall Tate has set up his new headquarters in Canada. The world watches. Tensions run high across the country. Will a second civil war tear the country apart? In the shadows and out of the public eye, the puppet masters continue their schemes. Can anyone figure out their ultimate plan? Is the looming chaos their endgame?

Turmoil has long lived in the world…. But one halfling has had enough. Paris Beaufont has decided that the wars being waged for centuries need to stop. But to keep fairies from battling as they have for decades will be costly.

In the next century, the United States and Russia have joined forces to form the International Peacekeeping Force. The IPF is charged with controlling the satellite network and preventing nuclear missile launches. But many factions resent this orbital police force - and attempt to seize control of the satellites.... and the IPF itself.

The Kenmiri Empire has fallen, broken against the might of the Vesheron rebels and the United Planets Space Force. The alliance between the Vesheron and the UPSF has collapsed in turn, leaving the former empire as worlds without governance or leaders. Amidst the chaos, the UPSF has launched a valiant effort to reach out to the weak and protect the defenseless. As part of the Peacekeeper Initiative, Colonel Henry Wong leads the battlecruiser Raven deep into once-hostile territory. There, an old ally has begun to forge a new empire from the old slave worlds.

Constable Jen keeps the peace in North Pointe with a warrior's grit and a touch of town magic that calms violent intent. But when chaos arrives, it doesn't carry a sword—it carries a measuring tape. The sudden arrival of knee-high, gray-bearded Púca—a secretive communal species that happen to be renowned master jewelers—throws the town into an uproar. They take over the vacant menagerie shop with deafening, day-long construction, only to pause and build a cryptic new restaurant facing the trade road. When a mysterious Mountain Elf, Llewel Magcaryn, arrives claiming he is setting up ...

During a war, bad things happen to good people. That point is driven home repeatedly in this book. Without warning, the peacekeepers are attacked by a relentless foe bent on their destruction. This time they face a foe that can match and defeat their armada. Suffering one defeat after another, the council tries to adapt and overcome an enemy that has spies working in Washington to turn the new government against them. The enemy intends to defeat them in war or have the American government seize their assets.A peacekeeper fighter squadron goes missing and El Morro, the Cuban peacekeeper base...

The peacekeepers were the solution to a problem: How do you enforce the laws of a society made up of a dozen species spread out across hundreds of planets? The process begins by carefully selecting the best candidates throughout the Alliance. After completing a rigorous training course, the peacekeepers endure a series of surgeries transforming them into cyborgs. They are linked to an advanced AI that will monitor their every activity. This AI is part of the ship each peacekeeper is given upon graduation. From that point on, they have the authority to enforce Alliance law wherever they may ...

Xander Martin is a member of the Terran Peacekeepers, the guardians of order on the fringes of the frontier. Beyond the borders of the Terran Republic lie many worlds and civilizations of Humanity, all with different agendas and ambitions.

The people of the small farm community of Arley Tennessee are attacked by a well organized group of Marauders who plan to return in a few days and annihilate the men and take the women captive as sex slaves. But the sophisticated radio equipment aboard the Peacekeeper intercepts a message detailing the plot. The men and women of the newly christened Peacekeeper face their first real test. A routine call causes a six man team to be dispatched to deal with a rogue bully who is tormenting the residents of Jewel Mississippi. But when the team arrives they find no ordinary bully. As a sniper ...

A rogue nation decides to take advantage of worldwide chaos to attack America with nuclear weapons. The American intelligence network learns of the plan and the government decides to launch a first strike at this rogue nation. This information leaks out to other nations and soon the world is poised on the brink of all out nuclear conflagration as the nuclear nations choose sides in the coming conflict.

Thomas Wilks is a Terran. Lashpa Krish is a Rouldian. They have declared themselves to be gragrakch—two bodies, one soul. Both are peacekeepers—cyborgs charged with enforcing Alliance law. In accordance with Rouldian tradition, the two peacekeepers travel to Lashpa’s home planet of Fanish to make their declaration of gragrakch official. Although they’ve been very close friends for years, Tom and Lashpa quickly discover that they still have much to learn about each other. Their efforts to deepen their relationship is interrupted when they stumble upon a hidden Chroniech base. ...

Raising four boys alone is not an easy task. Widower Joe Slagel tries, he really does. He works hard, provides a stable home with lots of love and just the right amount of discipline. But Joe Slagel also provides his sons with something else: disposable stepmothers. He never intends for them to be disposable, however, the mischievous doings of his four children make it impossible for him to keep a wife, and them a stepmother, for very long. Boys will be boys. But when the final straw is snapped and the fifth stepmother packs up and leaves without notice, Joe realizes it is time to bring in a professional.

The government makes the Peacekeepers an offer. Help us perfect our space drive system that’s similar but more powerful than your own so we can replace our failing satellites, and we’ll outfit your fleet with our upgrades. This would remedy the crippling altitude disadvantages the Peacekeepers must deal with when fighting conventional warplanes. The Peacekeeper scientists rise to the occasion. Soon, the Athens is being refitted and her crew trained for their first mission in orbit. However, the Russians are also racing to get into space for reasons of their own, and their plans don’t ...

Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr had been the very model of a Confederation Marine. No one who'd ever served with her could imagine any circumstance that would see her walking away from the Corps. But that was before Torin learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting...before she'd been declared dead and had spent time in a prison that shouldn't exist...before she'd learned about the "plastic" beings who were really behind the war between the Confederation and the Others. That was when Torin left the military for good.

A horrific engineered bioweapon threatens the security of the Galactic Alliance. Peacekeepers Tom Wilks and Lashpa Krish have proven their ability to solve difficult problems as a team. Although they know nothing about bioweapons, they are the Alliance's best hope to find the source of this terror weapon and shut it down.

A shocking discovery on a remote planet being surveyed for possible colonization has the potential to threaten the security of the Galactic Alliance. Peacekeepers Tom Wilks and Lashpa Krish are sent to find a solution. They soon discover that this assignment might be more than their cybernetic abilities can handle.

Warden Torin Kerr has put her past behind her and built a life away from the war and everything that meant. She's created a place and purpose for others like her, a way to use their training for the good of the Confederation. She has friends, family, purpose. Unfortunately, her past refuses to grant her the same absolution. Big Yellow, the ship form of the plastic aliens responsible for the war, returns. The Silsviss test the strength of the Confederation. Torin has to be Gunnery Sergeant Kerr once again and find a way to keep the peace.