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In a desperate attempt to save humanity from extinction, a late 21st century AI named Mara, abducts a disparate collection of 5th century people. She maroons them on a bizarre, savage planet many parsecs from Earth. Fraught with danger, the forsaken humans struggle against relentless foes on their new world with only their wits and iron age weapons. Lucius Bernius, a Roman general, awakens there devoid of any memories, but understands things that should be impossible for him to know. To overcome the perils encountered, he must uncover the truth about his hidden past. The resulting maelstrom...

In a twist of space and time, where the cosmos unfold their mysteries and civilizations span the vastness of the galaxy, a shadow of ancient glory looms. "Ancient Enemies" invites you on a mesmerizing odyssey, where a sliver of 5th century Rome is marooned on a distant world with the desperate hope of saving 21st century humanity from annihilation. Meet Lucius Bernius and Marcus Carloman, clone replicants of seasoned Roman generals, who must hide their true origins while leading a diverse and eclectic collection of iron age people on a bizarre new world. As the nascent colony faces the ...

How can you save mankind when the odds against you are at least a million to one? Earth is not mankind’s only home. Centuries ago, a group of humans left Earth and developed a flourishing society, and in time they forgot about their home world, whose inhabitants had gotten no farther into space than their own moon. These star-travelling humans suffered a horrific fate. The dominant empire in the galaxy, the Ipis, attacked. Deserted by their allied species, humanity’s armies were crushedand their civilization annihilated. Simply being human was considered a capital crime in the Ipis ...

A Fantasy/Alternate History Novel set at the time of the Roman Empire's fall. It is the tumultuous years of the mid-four hundreds and life is cheap. The dying Roman Empire is trying to deal with wave after wave of barbarian hordes swarming across its borders. It is the story of one man, Lucius, who defiantly clings to the ideals of ancient Rome and to a woman he has no right to love. Thrown together by chance, they forge an improbable relationship that grows into love. As the legions struggle against the endless stream of invaders, Lucius and a group of patriots attempt to rescue the Empire...

England, 1447, disaster befalls Aiden Connal as a band of men lay murderous waste to his land and the only woman he ever loved. He leaves the life he knows in pursuit of his wife's killers who have journeyed to France for the Duke of York's war. After exacting his revenge, Aiden continues on to Rome., adrift in a world he loathes and one that no longer wants him. On reaching Rome, he encounters the Aetius Corp, the Roman Army's fiercest warriors. Their ethos fills a void in him that even he does not understand. He falls into their way of life, and joins in their fight to defend a ravaged ...

Four days before Christmas, on the dark, snowy roads of western New York, Dante Carloman’s life takes a turn no one could have anticipated. The world around him erupts into a hellish landscape of combat when strange creatures clash with the US Army. Dante can only watch in horror as the alien force marches forward, laying waste to the soldiers around him.Kidnapped and taken to a harsh, alien world, the survivors struggle to stay alive. Dante uncovers a kink in their captors’ aura of invincibility and escapes. Outside the death camp’s confines, he discovers that the planet is not as ...

After achieving a decisive victory over the ruthless Ipis who rule the galaxy, Dante Carloman negotiated a treaty that saved all humans from extinction. The treaty allowed the humans and their allied species to become a semi-autonomous sector on the fringe of the Ipis empire—as long as the current Ipis empress, Fravashi, remains alive. This arrangement does not sit well with the Ipis nobility. Humanity, and especially its usurper leader, Dante, must be destroyed, and they will not allow anything to impede that endeavor. Over the next ten years, ethnocentric Ipis aristocrats put in place a...

Dante Carloman is the king of the humans on the planet of Cocytus. That title has earned him leadership of a small colony clinging to life on a bleak world and a death sentence by the dominant species in the galaxy: the Ipis. In this desolate place, Dante uncovers unnerving clues linking humans to the Ipis dating back to Earth’s early civilizations. Captured and sent to a world designed for the slow tortured death of the Ipis’ enemies, Dante discovers astounding truths about mankind’s role in the galaxy. With his wits as his only weapon, he faces an enemy who has not known defeat for ...