It's easy to ignore dangerous issues while you're studying at the Royal Space Navy's academy, until a sniper attempts to assassinate you. The scar across the side of Jack's head is the visible price. The risk to his friends at the academy is the hidden price. His challenge is how to balance the risk...
Jackson 'Jax' Caruso inherited a ship from his parents. They're dead, they don't need it. When Jax is approached with a job that seems too good to be true, he should have known better, he should have walked.
He didn’t.
Brandon Foss, an unhappily married Virginian in his early thirties, awakes from a strange dream to discover he has been abducted from Earth and kept in cryonic preservation on Amulen for two decades.
She lost everything. Now, she's fighting back. When Jaya Mill's parents were killed and her brother was kidnapped in an attack on her childhood home, she saw only one future for herself: enlist in the Union Starfleet and learn to defend herself.
When a Daklan annihilator drops out of lightspeed, make sure you're in a different solar system. Humanity is trapped in a decades-long conflict with a warlike alien species known as Daklan. The military's high command has played it safe for too long and now defeat seems inevitable.
What would you do if you found a magic lamp? What if that lamp turned out to be a 1400-year-old accident-prone robot who had a sentient spaceship for a friend? That's what happens to wisecracking star-sailor Gus Johansson when his beach bum retirement suddenly goes from boring to blazing.
The Wardens are our planet's last line of defence. Powerful warriors, they stand firm against every threat humanity faces.It's more than just a career - it's a sacred calling.
But it comes with a very short life expectancy.
The Wardens are our planet's last line of defence. Powerful warriors, they stand firm against every threat humanity faces.It's more than just a career - it's a sacred calling.
But it comes with a very short life expectancy.
Captain Josiah Bleys is one heck of a smuggler. A man with no respect for rules, save one: 'Don’t be a hero'.
Chief Ragnar Kane, one of the Emperor's finest warriors, likewise harbors no aspirations toward gallantry, just increasing his kill count.
Fate, however, has other plans.
What secrets lay beyond the Reach? Only a down on his luck war veteran aboard a broken-down old cargo ship has the courage to find out...