Victory at the guns was only the beginning…Now the fate of star nations may rest on one young lieutenant.Newly promoted and thrust aboard a powerful ship of the line, Alexis Carew expects war—broadside duels, fleet engagements, and the clear enemy she understands. Instead, she finds herself at the center of something far more dangerous: a covert mission that could reshape the balance of power across human space.Escorting diplomats into the heart of ...

Her first command. Her hardest test.Lieutenant Alexis Carew has finally earned what every officer dreams of—a ship of her own.HMS Nightingale should be the perfect assignment: a command, a return toward home, and a chance to prove herself at last. But the reality is anything but simple. Her new crew is a patchwork of misfits and castoffs. Her first officer resents her command. And in the Fringe worlds she must patrol, many believe a woman has no pl...

Stranded. Hunted. Betrayed.Alexis Carew has faced pirates, warships, and the brutal discipline of the Fleet—but nothing like this.Her ship is gone. Her allies have abandoned her. And on the hostile world of Erzurum, she leads a battered band of survivors through a deadly wilderness where every step could be their last.Pirate search teams scour the skies above.Something far more dangerous stalks the ground below.Cut off from rescue, l...

A mutiny is brewing… and Midshipman Alexis Carew is trapped in the middle of it.Branded an outsider. Driven to the edge. And serving under a captain who wants her gone.Alexis Carew survived her first taste of war—but life aboard HMS Hermione is a different kind of battle. Under the command of the cruel and vindictive Captain Neals, every watch is punishment, every mistake magnified, and every ally stripped away. In a Navy that barely tolerates her,...

Alexis Carew has spent her life learning to run a frontier holding—managing crews, making hard calls, and thinking like a leader. But when her future on Dalthus is cut short, she takes the only path left that offers freedom: the Royal Navy.As a midshipman aboard a shorthanded warship, Alexis is thrown into a harsh, unforgiving life where discipline is absolute, mistakes are costly, and respect must be earned the hard way. The fleet is stretched thin, tensions are rising beyond the ...

The war may be over… but the fighting isn’t.With the guns fallen silent, Lieutenant Alexis Carew finds herself grounded—her ship laid up, her commission reduced to half-pay, and her future uncertain. Back on her homeworld, she’s expected to trade command for quiet duty, managing family lands and settling into a life she never truly wanted.But peace brings its own kind of trouble.An influx of rough miners and opportunists is turning the frontier into...

Ensuring General Wisdom: The practical guide for non-executive directors and trustees on how to get the best out of executives covering: leadership, culture, business models and conduct of business. Discover the four drivers of culture: trust, communication, decision making and incentives. Find out why understanding corporate failure increases the chances of corporate success and that learning from history is difficult but essential.

Rosa and Mason once had a billion credits—sure, they stole them from a corrupt private-prison corporation, but the bastards deserved it.Now, that company's tracked them down and kidnapped Mason's mother. The only way to keep her, and themselves, alive is to go to work for the company that once imprisoned them, then head for the Asteroid Belt to hack a pirate king's datastream—oh, and give back the billion credits.Rosa's not sure it's a fair trade.

What if you discovered you'd been sold?For Mason Guthrie, a sudden arrest, railroad trial, and quick conviction for the "vandalism" of fixing things around his tenement building come as a shock.For Rosa Fuentes, it's just more confirmation that, to Earth's rulers, they're nothing but commodities to be bought and sold.Together—along with Rosa's disturbingly capable AI—they break out and make their way off Earth to start a new, free life.Unfor...

The revolutionary “Red Book” that helped a generation work smarter, better, and faster—now expanded and updated with new stories, new ideas, and new methods to radically improve the way you and your company deliver resultsIf you’ve ever been startled by how fast the world is changing, the Scrum framework is one of the reasons why. Productivity gains in workflow of as much as 1,200 percent have been recorded, and there’s no more lucid—or compelling—explainer of Scru...

Burn Our Bodies Down meets Delicious Monsters in this terrifying new young adult horror by acclaimed master of the macabre Joel A. Sutherland.Joana and her younger brother Peter aren't used to setting down roots. Ever since the violent murder of their mother, their father can't stay in one place for long, haunted by the literal ghosts of the past. He has what he calls "the Whisperings," and will do anything to protect his children from the horrors...

This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild bees. The authors worked with an international group of bee experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild bees. They range from protecting natural habitat to controlling disease in commercial bumblebee colonies. For each intervention, the book summarises studies captured by the Conservation Evidence project, where that intervention has...