A voice from the darkness promises utopia……whatever the cost.Earth is lost, humanity's presence there a mere footnote in history. Now, the human race clings to a precarious existence in the void, scattered across the solar system. The line between life and death has never been thinner.Nothing in Ambera "Tharsis" Chen's life has turned out the way she hoped. A military commission and assignment out beyond Mars's gra...

Mech pilot Lieutenant Marie Stahlbaum wants to be out stalking the stars, taking the fight to the rat-like alien verrater that destroyed her homeworld. Serving now with the famed Colonel Drosselmeier, she thought she'd finally get that chance. Instead she's stuck on guard duty, watching over a spoiled lord and his holiday merriment on the winter moon of Bavaria.When an verrater invasion crashes the party on Christmas Eve, Marie finds herself on a terrible new front line.Wit...

Causality doesn't always run in a straight line...Tharsis has done the incredible: she has thrown herself across time and space, escaping certain death in the void. Only problem is, she dove a little too far. The icy wastes of Noqumiut may be behind her, but she's further than ever from home.Caleb Ross has always considered himself an unremarkable guy. Waking up centuries in the future was shock enough. Being told he's in charge of a planet? That's beyond a...

Daelia Hall has a problem.Several, in fact.Her academic advisor won't get off her back. Her dad is pushing her to leave her doctoral program behind and work for him. The new pilot up at the squadron just damn near crashed her favorite AI-enabled airplane, one of the fabled emergent abiota.Oh yeah, and a massive meteor just blasted a crater into a nearby park, and the Air Guard wants to know what is going on. Because there's something alive inside this thing, somethi...

No secret stays hidden forever…Tharsis is finally heading home. Back to Mars. She's done everything the Landlords have asked. What more does she have to offer? She's in a world of trouble now, and execution still isn't off the table.Caleb Ross is in no mood to throw her out an airlock, though. He's got bigger problems to deal with than one insubordinate lieutenant. The crew of the Barachiel may have accepted him, but ASDF high command seems more de...

Curses can hide in the most innocent of places…Charlotte Roseingrave and Thomas Leighton survived their ordeal in the Otherworld, but all new problems await them back home. Thomas may be the first director for the newly formed Rocky Mountain Psychical Institute, but not everybody agrees with his appointment.When an artifact breaks in a major donor's home, revealing a hidden tablet within, Thomas seizes the opportunity to decipher the message and prove his qualifica...

All she wanted was to be left alone. The Otherworld had other ideas…Charlotte Roseingrave has spent her life plagued by visions she doesn't want. But as the daughter of the most popular traveling medium west of the Mississippi, escaping the supernatural was never an option.After her mother dies, stranding Charlotte and her sister Celeste in the frontier town of Denver, it seems like her chance for a quiet life. Until a psychical investigator shows ...

On a world where everyone looks to the depths, she has always looked to the stars…Unara has never wanted what others want. On a world where every day is a fight for survival, she dreams of peace in the silence of space. But being born under the waves comes with a price; nobody leaves Thalassa Prime.Not that Unara's going to let that stop her.For soon, Trader Houses from across the galaxy will be descending to the sun-scorched surface of Tha...

Her first full moon may be her last…Celeste Roseingrave didn't ask for this. Finding out the Otherworld was real was almost as traumatic as being bitten by a werewolf. Now, she can feel the monster inside of her and she knows she's losing control.Her new pack has one test for her; survive her first full moon. On her own. With powers and instincts she doesn't understand. And when everything goes sidewise, it might not be her who pays the ultimate pr...

First contact is stranger than anyone expected…Daelia Hall doesn't care about Unity, or its promises. Humanity is being offered a chance to join a great galactic confederation, administered by hyper-sentient abiota, but who has time to worry about that? It's a distant issue—or maybe not, considering how the alien envoy is suddenly the biggest celebrity on the planet.No, Daelia has Emily to worry about. The Air Force is sending a team out to investi...

Some legends are best left forgotten…Thomas finally has his first chance at a proper psychical investigation, evaluating the prowess of a popular traveling medium in the lovely resort town of Manitou Springs. With the help of the lovely Miss Charlotte Roseingrave, of course. But the harsh winter of 1887 has descended now, and things long thought lost are stirring in the Colorado mountains.Soon, Thomas's simple inquiry turns into a murder investigat...

Distant stations hold deep secrets…Space travel's never been high on Daelia's list of things to do in life. She doesn't care what the tourism brochures say. It can't really be safe, can it?Argo's brother is missing, though. Last known location? Numina Station. Argo's always protected the kid and always will, but that means figuring out a way to get up into orbit, at a time when the whole world wants to see the wonders Unity has brought them. And fl...