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Long before she commanded fleets, long before the Shrehari War forged her legend, Siobhan Dunmoore was just a young woman from the remote colony of New Tasman with one audacious goal: to earn a place at the Commonwealth Armed Forces Academy as a Navy midshipman. Her acceptance marked the first step on a path that would one day carry her to the highest ranks of humanity’s military — culminating in her brief but historic tenure as acting Grand Admiral.But before the legend can begin,...

Book 1 - Imperial SunsetHumanity’s thousand-year-old interstellar empire has been rotting from the inside for over a century, thanks to venal, corrupt, and power-hungry sovereigns from a dynasty many consider illegitimate. The latest in that lineage, an increasingly psychotic empress, is pushing her realm toward catastrophic collapse as admirals and generals rebel against her rule. That rebellion quickly drags the once mighty Imperial Fleet into a devastat...

Humanity's thousand-year-old interstellar empire has been rotting from the inside for over a century, thanks to venal, corrupt, and power-hungry sovereigns from a dynasty many consider illegitimate. The latest in that lineage, an increasingly psychotic empress, is pushing her realm toward collapse as admirals and generals rebel against her rule. That rebellion quickly drags the once mighty Imperial Fleet into a devastating fratricidal conflict between factions.One man, Captain Jona...

Two years have passed since the OutWorlds seceded from the Commonwealth to form the Federation, and Ghost Squadron has never been busier, thanks to the Commonwealth stirring up trouble wherever it can.When mayhem erupts on former colonies in the Federation’s Rim Sector, newly promoted Lieutenant Colonel Curtis Delgado takes Ghost Squadron on a covert mission to terminate the troublemakers and restore peace. But with savage deportees, depraved cartel members, and amoral mercenaries ...

The rivalry between the Second Empire and the Republic is reaching a critical point. Both powers see themselves as the rightful successors to the old empire, but only one can claim that legacy. As the Republic, with its increasingly dictatorial president, desperately tries to secure its position, a confrontation becomes inevitable.The situation takes an alarming turn when the Second Empire receives intelligence about a genocidal project being orchestrated by the Re...

The most powerful empire in human history is rushing headlong toward destruction, ending our species’ supremacy in the known galaxy.Two men with widely divergent visions are on a mission to save civilization in at least one sector, far from the imperial capital where a demented ruler holds sway. The first, Jonas Morane, wants to create an impregnable vault containing humanity’s accumulated knowledge so those who survive the coming darkness can rebuild in decades in...

My name is Caelin Morrow, and I run the internal affairs bureau for the entire Commonwealth Rim Sector. It means I hunt down corrupt federal officials of all stripes — police, military, political or bureaucratic — in the most fractious and nowadays most dangerous part of human space.I also examine the private and professional lives of Constabulary officials destined for senior positions, to make sure they’re not hiding a habit of taking bribes, abusing their powers...

Wanted by their enemies for exposing the Black Sword cabal and faced with the difficult task of rebuilding the Special Operations Division while treason remains rampant, Major Zack Decker and Commander Hera Talyn are stuck in desk jobs. Until, that is, the Coalition and its minions decide to make things very personal. Forced back into the role of field operatives, they discover a plot to destabilize an entire sector and bring it under the iron-fisted control of a Commonwealth government ea...

Zack Decker wanted only one thing in life: to fight as a Marine Pathfinder. But his temper and his loathing for careerist officers cost him dearly. Forced into early retirement, with a wife who left him long ago, no job, no friends and no future, the former sergeant crawled into a bottle and stayed there, moving from planet to planet, looking for some reason to keep on living. Until, that is, he wandered into a bar owned by an old Marine buddy who offered to help. On the r...

Investigating war crimes isn't Assistant Commissioner Caelin Morrow's usual sort of case. She normally hunts down corrupt Commonwealth officials. But with the reorganization of the Professional Compliance Bureau's Anti-Corruption Division, Morrow inherits primary responsibility for military crimes requiring outside scrutiny. And for her first case as the new head of Anti-Corruption Unit 12 (Military Crimes), she's heading for the Novaya Sibir star system with her team to l...

The collapse of humanity’s first interstellar empire is passing into legend, perhaps even myth, now that the ones who could remember those tumultuous years have merged with the Infinite Void. Tiny Lyonesse, the self-appointed guardian of all human knowledge tucked away in its wormhole cul-de-sac, has spent generations preparing to carry out Jonas Morane’s plan of reuniting humanity.Unbeknown to citizens of a republic cut off from the rest of the galaxy, four star s...

Siobhan Dunmoore was losing the war one ship at a time. The Shrehari Empire had burned more hulls out from under her than any other officer in the Fleet. Some said she was too aggressive. Others said too reckless. The enemy called her something else—something they spat with fear. None of it mattered. Not all her enemies wore Imperial uniforms. And the only reputation she had left was for bad luck.She was dragging another wreck home, crew half‑dead, systems failing. This time she’d ...