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Deep in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains, Solomon's Compass points toward a very specific shard. Rip’s team recovered the gem known as Solomon’s Compass, which points toward aether crystals and their shards in a special rhythm synced to Halley’s Comet. This time, the stone points resolutely toward a unique cave system in the Carpathians, guiding the Steel Comet, Ripley and the Verez family toward a special shard. But Darhaven and the Prussians are looking for aether shards, too. And the Kaiser’s zeppelins are hunting the Steel Comet, with orders to destroy on sight . . . Don't ...

League forces invade Epsilon, in a desperate attempt to snatch back the planet lost during the war. One young woman is a vestigial SSI asset, living off the books. When she's contacted in a game, will she help her former lover's organization? Or will they betray her at any cost? And with no ships nearby, the Republic reaches out yet again to the pirates of Lute. Who will answer their call, and reap the bounties? Jump into an exciting, action-packed space opera! Featuring intense battle action with space Marines, heavy weaponry, urban warfare and devious AI's! Epsilon Redux marks the fourth ...

“Look at it this way, Sarge . . . Three ex-Marines are worth about ten regular agents.” The war is over. For ex-Marine Sergeant Gina Wilcox, that means using her powers outside the military for a change. Wilcox is an electronic telepath, and when Naval Investigations is dissolved she’s recruited into AOJ, the Republic’s top civilian law enforcement agency. AOJ has a reputation for being corrupt to the core. And to make matters worse, crime spikes out of control right before election season. Wilcox does her part, rounding up terrorists and assassins. But the criminal underworld ...

The Austro-Hungarian crown has lost a jewel . . . The Templars found Solomon’s Compass during excavations in the Middle East and brought it to Europe. After centuries in possession of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria loaned it to Bavaria as a wartime reward. Now the emperor wants the mysterious gem back, and his agent hires Rip’s team to retrieve it. There’s only one problem. Bavaria is no longer part of Austria. It recently aligned with the newly formed and militantly aggressive German Empire. And the Prussians do not want Rip anywhere near their border. From the heights of a floating ...

Stentorian's Moon holds a secret. Somewhere on or under its surface, the original code for Star League's AI has been hidden away. Remington Rennison and a team from Republican Naval Intelligence head to the system to quietly check it out. But on Stentorian, a revolution is brewing. With the League's decreased manufacturing capacity and loss of resources from the war, factory capacity there is expanding. And with little room left on the planet, Stentorian's moon is suddenly a prime target for colonization. Remington finds a war brewing, and the secrets she seeks from the earliest human ...

Germany invades Belgium on the way to Paris. But Umbria has pledged to defend her allies at all costs. The king has appointed Rip Coulter as Undersecretary of War. With knowledge of history from his own world along with some innovative thinking, he sets up a brilliant counterattack near the Meuse River, seeking to bring this world’s Great War to a sudden and decisive end. But under the surface, Darhaven has a score to settle with Rip and his family for thwarting their plans. They intend to deliver on that score, even as the war rages elsewhere. Meanwhile, the United States Army is intent ...

In 1900 a massive hurricane wiped out Galveston, killing thousands and leveling the island. One building survived, the Dark Waters Inn. The proprietress made a deal with the angel who watches over Texas . . . Over the years the island rebuilt. But Dark Waters remains untouched, haunted by a ghost whose successive granddaughters continue running the inn. Macey Davenport shows up late for her grandmother’s funeral and suddenly finds herself the new owner of a very special place. Cord Dupree is a lonely highway patrol officer in West Texas. One night, he pulls over a werewolf . . . Suddenly ...

Someone is opening doors to Earth . . . Darhaven toils deep in the vaults to crack the code for sending an army to Rip's world. But their subjects always appear in NeuralNet, leading to much confusion on both sides. When Darhaven moves work to a tabulator under Calais, odd things begin to happen in the past on Rip's world. As the guns of 1914 boom, mysterious sights appear at Mons, alongside intense early fighting between British and German forces. Rip and his team will descend into the Calais vault to stop Darhaven, but the French Army has a presence there already. Rip is left with no ...

“You know, Sarge, sentience is a funny thing. You could probably program a bot to think it was self-aware." A stolen droid from Verberger has awakened, and former Space Marine Gina Wilcox finds herself babysitting a childlike young woman who has no idea she's not human. Why, then, does the corporation want her back so badly? In darkest space, the Captain of a giant zodiac vessel dies and throws the ship into default mode just as his crew mutinies. An SOS reaches Counterforce One where Commander Hamilton Wolf leads his team with some newcomers on a rescue mission. Don't miss the fifth ...

“If you hadn’t said anything, Sarge, I’d never have known she ain’t the real thing.” Commander Hamilton Wolf leads Operation Counterforce, a group of ex-Marines on a mission to mete out some black-ops justice against the League. Back home, a rogue engineer at Verberger, the droid manufacturing conglomerate, has designed a super suit that lets him run roughshod over law enforcement. When the local crime syndicate gives him a weapon to match, Assistant Director Wilcox and her group of agents struggle to contain him, and find out why he’s robbing banks. Don’t miss this exciting ...

“Time travel’s awesome, Sarge. You ought to try it before they shut things down.” Spies and assassins are much more active in the Republic now that the war is over. One operative holds information extremely valuable to League terrorists. And a secret project by Republican Shipworks, the giant battleship conglomerate, holds a way to change the past to affect the future . . . Gina Wilcox leads a crack team of former Space Marines in their new role inside civilian law enforcement. Don’t miss the exciting second book in this action-packed series!

The abandoned frontier planet Halcyon has joined with the pirate planet Lute in a governmental alliance. Sharing one AI and opening their borders to trade and tourism, the two planets grow ever closer in the mutual bonds of friendship. But the League has other ideas. Still considering Halcyon theirs, Tetrarch Thrall sends a fleet to plunder the planet's surface. Desperate for gold and losing the war, he intends to strip the planet's resources and bring its population back under League control. Unfortunately for the Navy, pirates are already in the system. And they have no intention of ...

Nothing has worked to bring the lost quadrant of Euripides back into the League’s fold. In desperation, the bot known as Lead Tetrarch Jade Thrall calls for an Apocalypse Code, directing all available SSI personnel to attack the planet’s infrastructure. The newest tool in the assassins' arsenal are specialized bots known as H-LADs, nicknamed Hollow Lads for their ephemeral nature. With Agent Blackmark sprung from prison, the Hollow Lads and other enemies of the Planetary Republic embark on an unprecedented crime spree filled with death and destruction. But the local AI has some tricks ...

“Dang, Sarge. In a way, it sounds like they swapped out one bot for another.” Former SSI agent Remington Rennison leads a small-scale insurrection on Euripides while the Counterforce teams and ex space marine Gina Wilcox continue trying to retrieve Miriam. Obstacles remain to completing their objective, the largest of which is the League Navy in orbit. But insurmountable odds are something the Ultima Mule Company is used to facing, and they're here to lend a hand . . . Don't miss the ninth installment of this fast-paced space opera!

“Congrats for making Director, Sarge. And thanks for bringing us with you.” A lethal illicit drug hits the streets of Octavia, and one of Gina Wilcox’s first assignments as Director of AOJ is rooting out those responsible. But the gang’s leader is an old SSI plant, intent on causing as much death and destruction as possible. Meanwhile on Clarion, Miriam moves ever closer to uncovering the truth about her origins, leading to a potentially disastrous showdown with Thrall . . . Don’t miss the exciting final book in this action-packed space opera!

Forged from the ore of a fallen star, the Forlorn Dagger absorbs all magic. Ideal for assassinating wizards, it’s been missing for centuries until it shows up in the library of a mysterious collector. Now an exceptional thief has stolen it. A young princess endures harsh training to become the ultimate weapon of war: a battlemaiden. And a crown prince snatched from a bloody palace coup is raised in secrecy while a wizard grooms him for the day he reclaims the throne. When a rogue wizard sends an army to recover the Forlorn Dagger, they unite with the dwarves in an attempt to thwart evil, ...

Remington Rennison is about to embark upon the most dangerous assignment of her career. Together with the crew of the Sub Rosa, a ship designed for infiltration into enemy systems, she will be inserted into Clarion, the home planet for Star League and its near-omniscient StarCen AI. With StarCen's original code recovered from Stentorian's Moon, she seeks to "kill" the AI that once tried to kill her. But Remington and her friends have no idea where to start looking for StarCen's primary core. And another "friend" waits in the wings, an android who does not realize she is not human. An ...

In the beginning, God created people, angels, and fae. Creatures existing between the spiritual realm and the physical, fae scattered among parallel worlds spreading magic and chaos. The Walker hunts fae, killing them, bringing them to justice. On occasion, he recruits followers. He found Tiff, an orphan, and raised her to be one of his best hunters. A skilled killer, she jumps into any timeline on any alternate, and seeks her prey. A powerful artifact and a mysterious fae crop up in the Roaring Twenties, in Chicago. Tiff is on her way. But this time, after centuries of being hunted, the ...

The exciting conclusion to the Forlorn Dagger trilogy! Underneath the mountains outside the dwarves' most distant outpost, after centuries of waiting members of the Shadow Council make their move. Dwarves and wizards must unite to try and stop evil from retaking the world. The Shadow Council is powerful, but the thief and his motley crew of ex-pirates have one more surprise in store . . .

StarCen, the massive AI for Star League has been reset. In the process, Remington Rennison accidentally set loose another opponent, who has an even bigger beef with Lead Tetrarch Jade Thrall. Now, with a nascent AI trying to relearn a century's worth of data, a bot who thinks she's human, and a rapidly shrinking League with the recent loss of Stentorian, several disparate stands come together for one final conflagration . . . Don't miss the exciting conclusion of Star League Assassins!