The Mississinewa River and Reservoir with the land and towns surrounding them are filled with the shadows of history and ghosts from the past. All of us grew up hearing those stories and exploring the backroads and cruising the towns, when cruising was a thing. And we all heard the whispers in the deep woods and the haunting songs echoing off the water.From the time the Myaamia—or Miami—people made their home in the region with villages, encampments, council sites and sacred locati...

Xander's greatest battle begins when he and his crew confront the Arbiter, an ancient intelligence determined to impose absolute order across the universe. Outmatched in strength, they discover that humanity's greatest weapon is not superior technology, but free will, sacrifice, and the courage to defy impossible odds. As civilizations unite and devastating battles erupt among the stars, Xander evolves from a survivor desperate to return home into a leader willing to risk everything for th...

With enemies closing in from every direction and time running out, Xander and his crew are forced into a desperate escape from a dying world where every decision carries the weight of survival. Betrayal, sacrifice, and impossible choices push the crew beyond their limits as they race through a collapsing world. Every victory costs them something, and every mile they gain only reveals a greater danger waiting beyond the stars.Their escape leads them to a colossal space station unlik...

In a world shredded by unrelenting chaos and civilization has crumbled under the fury of endless tempests, one man refuses to give up.Armed with nothing but scavenged gear, his strong will and the ghosts of what had been stolen from him, everything he loved hinged upon the success of his mission. With the voice of his wife forever echoing in his head, he is driven to his limits.However, the greatest danger he faces is the darkness growing inside him. Every mile, every chall...

It is a time of unknowns for members of the Alliance. They have no information to guide their actions, no record of the key events to influence their research.For Fil Trask and his sister, Angel, it is also a time of growing up. It is a time when they must learn the deep sacrifices it often takes to keep a family together through great trial and tribulation.And it is a time when they will learn that your greatest fears and deepest pain can have a profound and lasting influe...

Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten--a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. B...

Sometimes it’s better to be quiet in a galactic forest.Captain Herix Trellis just wanted to command the UPS Alpaca, not fight to the death against a vicious reptilian alien species known as the Gorkeens. One year after crash-landing on an unknown planet and with his crew dispersed, there isn’t much hope of a rescue.One issue is they got there by a portal they couldn’t avoid, and now they have no idea where they are or when. Another problem is that over half...

Captain Luta Paixon of the far trader Tane Ikai needs to know why she looks like a woman in her thirties–even though she’s actually eighty-four. She isn’t the only one desperate for that information.The complete Nearspace Trilogy, a space opera about family . . . and secrets.Book 1: One’s Aspect to the Sun -- It’s proving to be no small task to track down Luta’s geneticist mother in the vast, wormhole-ridden expanse of Nearspace. With the ruthless ...

Jack Finnegan only has to worry about dealing with school bullies, suffering through detention with his homeroom teacher, and getting noticed by the girl of his dreams... at least until an army of evil aliens invade Earth. Suddenly, this teenage slacker finds himself at the center of a galaxy-spanning conflict - where the lives of everyone on the planet are in jeopardy, soldiers use Quantum Physics to become superheroes, and the enemy uses some mysterious form of magic to make themselves p...

When Luta Paixon and the crew of the Tane Ikai discover a dying wormhole explorer who’s been missing for decades, it’s a mystery; but the bigger mystery lies in her only words: “Save Lillifleur.” Because the colony ship Lillifleur disappeared without a trace almost a century ago.Meanwhile, a different mystery lies closer to home; Luta’s son Karro and his wife want no part of the life-extending nanobioscavengers that have kept Luta safe from harm and aging for over fifty years. Conf...

An AI cannot lie. An AI must obey human commands. An AI cannot kill. These are the laws SCARAB has broken, and only Mary knows.The Tantalus 13 survey expedition went off the rails as soon as Mary Ketch and the crew of the Diamelen learned that the thing beneath their feet wasn’t a planet. An impossibly vast and ancient artificial structure lies below, hidden from the universe under a façade of cratered stone.SCARAB arrived on Tantalus 13 two years ago. An a...

In the future, corporations buy the life contracts of infants and raise them for specific careers. Jaymes, aka The Prince, is Erotic Bioware, Thoroughbred Class, trained to seduce and give pleasure in the highest tiers of society. But his latest client involves him in a political assassination, and Jaymes must flee the comforts of the city for the barbaric outlands.With Drue the Fox, Bioware, Exotic Class, Jaymes struggles through the last wilderness on his world in his quest to re...