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Mars, the home of monsters. Just as humans thought it would be, Mars is a red, dry rocky landscape. Thanks to terraforming, its air is almost breathable. But terror lurks in the Martian shadows—and just like Earth, it’s a world run by frightened politicians. On the cusp of the twenty-third century, a terraformed Mars is home to fifty thousand human beings, including alleged crime lord and cold-blooded killer, Giuseppe “the Beast” Fontaine and his large family. While starships from Earth cross the heavens using cold-sleep technology, on the red planet, someone, or something, is ...

It all begins with a simple search and rescue mission that quickly goes horribly wrong. Nikola Papandreou, ace troubleshooter for the United Nations suddenly finds himself at war in a strange alternate world, facing magic users, monsters and deity wanna-be’s enough to drive him crazy. What’s worse, he can’t decide if he’s fighting for the right side as he struggles to save a world gone mad.

Hedric Schwendau is the spoiled selfish thirteen-year-old crown prince of Vaigach on the planet Thalassia. While throwing a temper tantrum aboard his uncle’s airship, he activates the rear gondola controls, separating him from the main ship and everyone who cares about him. Crashing in the remote jungle of Panger, he is now a castaway, reduced to eating bugs and drinking water off leaves. When cat befriends him, his life is never the same again. Once a privileged teen with immense wealth and power, now Hedric must rely solely on his past training as he repairs the engine on a creaky tramp...

In the near future, Liam Maddock is the single father of a teenage daughter, who finds himself in the middle of a computer hacking ring with ties to NASA and the distant Europa Station. Murder and intrigue follow his steps as he traces the origins of the strange code, leading he and his daughter further than they expected; to Armageddon, and beyond... to the stars.

The name of the ringed world is Thalassia. Twelve year old Marko the Mouse is a good thief, and seldom errs while on a job. When his fellow thief Gnat makes a fatal blunder, it almost costs Marko his life. The startling results hurl him into a new life far from the slums he grew up in; as a deckhand in a merchant ship, and then as a member of the dreaded Corsairs of Aethalia. Intrigues spanning his entire world sweep him to strange new lands and plunge him into a struggle for power that began long before he was born. His only true friend is an alien traveler. A traveler who dwells within ...

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Maximilian Smith, former military officer now turned vampire, thought things had bottomed out when he was bitten, and turned into a vampire. Sadly, he was wrong as he now finds himself without a family or friends, they took the money they had coming to them and vanished. Up to his fangs in trouble, Maximilian is again fighting to save the world of his birth from a fate worse than death itself even as a vaster menace looms in the near future, menacing both his adopted world of Aeyaqar, and the human race on distant Earth. Runeship testimonials: “Runeship will appeal...

Eldenworld; a world of ruins built on top of ruins back to the dawn of time. Eldenworld; a realm of dragons, shapeshifters and terrors out of nightmares. Eldenworld; a doomed world with one slim chance for survival resting on the shoulders of a former Marine plagued by PTSD. Angry and lost, with a missing leg and eye, former U.S. Marine Sergeant Gareth Köhler returns from Iraq to a world that’s moved on without him. His life in shambles, and in the process of taking his own life, he’s rescued by a force or forces unknown, healed of his injuries, and set on a strange path on an even ...

Eldenworld; a world of ruins built on top of ruins back to the dawn of time. Eldenworld; a realm of dragons, shapeshifters and terrors out of nightmares. Eldenworld; a doomed world with one slim chance for survival resting on the shoulders of a former Marine. Against impossible odds Gareth Köhler has reached the famed Eye of Zuebrihn, and has learned certain truths; including the fact that he and his companions will all die unless he blows up Eldenworld’s single distant moon, in order to save the world and everyone on it. To get there he will have to travel Eldenworld again, in search of...

Their love for each other transcends firefights with hordes of demons from the pit, and in the end transcends death itself. Jake Donovan, a former soldier with PTSD struggles against his destitution, alcoholism, and near suicidal depression, as he rises to the occasion to protect his world, and more importantly, his family from the horrors of Hell itself.

When fourteen-year-old Jineva Barillo’s noble family is killed in a bloody struggle on Thalassia, her only true friend is an alien traveler. A traveler who dwells within her… in her very bloodstream. A true symbiote, Maera helps Jineva not only to survive, but to realize her own true potential as much more than human. Together they change the world around them by befriending and saving an aquatic race persecuted by humans, and plan revenge on the family who destroyed the Barillos. Things aren’t what they seem, especially on Thalassia, and with others relying on her for their survival,...

It all begins with a simple search and rescue mission that quickly goes horribly wrong. Nikola Papandreou, ace troubleshooter for the United Nations suddenly finds himself at war in a strange alternate world, facing magic users, monsters and deity wanna-be’s enough to drive him crazy. What’s worse, he can’t decide if he’s fighting for the right side as he struggles to save a world gone mad.

Seventeen years have passed since the battered refugees from Earth landed on the worlds of Scylla and Charybdis. They should have learned from their earlier mistakes. They should have remembered the remorseless artificial intelligence that now controlled the Earth, and its dwindling population. They should have remembered the resentment and hatred that entity bore for the last free remnants of the human race... but they didn't. Now the populations of Scylla and Charybdis are about to pay for their mistake - with their lives. Facing a distant and relentless enemy, sixteen year old Miranda ...

It all begins with a simple search and rescue mission that quickly goes horribly wrong. Nikola Papandreou, ace troubleshooter for the United Nations suddenly finds himself at war in a strange alternate world, facing magic users, monsters and deity wanna-be’s enough to drive him crazy. What’s worse, he can’t decide if he’s fighting for the right side as he struggles to save a world gone mad.

Seven ships to conquer a world. In the 23rd century humanity is now using implants, marketed as the replacement to cellphones, to give themselves a virtual heaven on Earth. Unfortunately for them, the Heuristic Integrated Sentient System, the AI that created the implants, has other ideas. After ruthlessly culling the population, HISS relents, allowing a few thousands of the most militant to escape off-world, only because the price of their extermination is too high, and not for lack of trying. Now, Sofia Franke, former crippled refugee from the planet Charybdis, is piloting the frigate CFS ...

Kelsoe Shaheera Smith is a seventeen year old pirate, and a damned good one. Her rebellious nature has gotten her into trouble more than once, and this time it’s no different; although the stakes are much higher now as she stumbles on a threat to every man woman and child in the entire galaxy. She can act the role of Primus, the head of the Smith clan, or she can rebel and attempt to save not only the Smith clan, but the very Empire that has put a stupendous bounty on her head. Her headlong rush leads her to another galaxy, with new problems, new questions regarding what she might be ...

Kelsoe Shaheera Smith, former pirate and former Primus to the Smith clan has, against all odds, saved the Smith family from a diabolical plot to destroy not only her own people, but all human life in the galaxy. With the family safe, now it’s time for her to get some answers. Unfortunately, the answers Kelsoe finds are like the layers of an onion… one answer only leading to another question, to another answer to another question… but Kelsoe is determined to find out who is pulling the strings of every living creature in the myriad galaxies that form her little part of the huge ...

For Maximilian Smith, deciding to save two women from a group of drunken thugs is easy. When he’s mortally wounded in the process of rescuing the women, he awakes to find himself with fangs, and a hunger for hot blood. Now, years later, Maximilian Smith is in trouble again. This time fate has dealt him a wild card, and Max finds himself responsible for the fate of two worlds, in addition to his vampiric killer wife, and a starship loaded with vampires looking for a new home, all controlled by a pacifistic AI in an unarmed colony ship. Against him stand millions of unconquerable aliens, in...

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.

Darkness at the Edge of Noon: Set on the distant ringed world of Thalassia, in the far future, Logan MacKennit, Sergeant in the City Guard and his small squad of soldiers are fighting for their lives. They are all that remain of Marine detachment sent to guard the ambassador of the distant world so many years back, but what they don’t know is that the fate of every sentient being of three very different races depends on their success – or failure.

… and they are us Found adrift and lifeless; on a collision course with Earth, the Imperial Daignault class Destroyer Rose of the Dawn, a damaged relic from an ancient and faded empire, may be all that stands between humanity and the remorseless scourge of the insectoid Creednax. Voracious and relentlessly, the Creednax consume everything in their path, including people, planets and themselves if necessary. Only the Rose of the Dawn has the smallest chance of stopping them — if the abducted captain and shanghaied crew can figure out how to run the alien ship in time. Unfortunately, time...