Madonna Springfield has spent her entire life chasing one impossible dream:Flying the ships nobody else is brave enough to test.As Horizon Flight Systems' newest test pilot, her job is simple. Push experimental spacecraft beyond their limits. Find every weakness. Make tomorrow's technology ready for the real world.It's everything she's ever wanted.Until one routine test flight changes everything.A strange symbol painted on the hull of a passing freig...

Mission BriefHe wanted the truth.Now he just wants to stay alive.Investigative reporter Calum Blake has spent his career exposing powerful people who believed they were untouchable. This time, they decide to prove him wrong.With assassins closing in and nowhere left to run, Cal has one option.Aegis Robotics.His new bodyguard is Alina Seven.Sh...

Sector Ten taught Elizabeth Forstar one rule.Survive.Trust no one.Never expect anyone to come looking for you.As one of the frontier's toughest young bounty hunters, Ellie has carved out a life one contract at a time. At her side is Chuck, a towering Gorm warrior whose loyalty has carried her through battles that should have killed them both.Now Sector Ten stands at a crossroads.Independent worlds are beginning to unite. Crim...

She stopped chasing the next paycheck.Now the galaxy’s deadliest syndicate is chasing her.Bounty hunter Cora Sterling has finally earned something rare: freedom.Her ship, Terminus, is fully upgraded. The debts are gone. For the first time in years, she can choose her contracts instead of taking whatever keeps the engines running.So when Police Commissioner Sam Spade offers her a qui...

Heather Fontaine has finally achieved something most bounty hunters never do:Stability.Her ship, the Pop 'N Fresh, better known as Poppy, is paid off. The upgrades are installed. The next fuel stop isn't a financial emergency. For the first time in years, Heather can afford to choose her jobs.Then someone offers her easy money.A routine prisoner transport.Quiet transfer.Clean...

Choosing My BattlesMadonna Springfield finally has something she’s never had before:Choices.With her partner Joshua Cole, the ever-unflappable android Hal, and their newly upgraded X-13, Babe, Maddy can afford to be selective. Bigger contracts. Better clients. Smarter risks.Then one routine stakeout changes everything.What begins as surveillance on a Syndicate lieutenant quickly spirals into a deadly chase involving politica...

Madonna Springfield didn’t get rich by trusting people.Some bounty hunters chase criminals.Madonna Springfield keeps stumbling into conspiracies.Trying to build a reputation as an independent bounty hunter isn’t easy. The jobs are dangerous, the competition is ruthless, and getting paid on time is practically a miracle.Then one routine prisoner transport goes spectacularly wrong.Suddenly Maddy and her crew are caught between corrupt officials, organi...

Springfield Rules.Madonna "Maddy" Springfield has three rules.Do the job. Get paid. Don’t get attached.They’ve kept her alive through pirate ambushes, corporate betrayals, and enough bad contracts to fill a lifetime. She doesn’t ask questions. She finishes the job and moves on.Until one routine protection assignment goes spectacularly wrong.Within hours, bodies are piling up. Professional killers appear from...

What You Aim ForMadonna Springfield has spent a year building a reputation as the bounty hunter who gets the job done.Now she has something she’s never had before.A paid-off ship. Money in the bank. The freedom to choose her contracts instead of chasing the next fuel bill.When Matt Murphy offers her a routine prisoner transport, it looks like easy money.Until someone leaks the route.Suddenly, powerful crimina...

A NEW NOVEL IN THE ICARUS SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADMIRAL THRAWN STAR WARS NOVELS TIMOTHY ZAHNFor years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they quietly work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, ...

Hero or Killer?In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything in space—including committing the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the Moon, where he's head of the first U.S. lunar colony.But suddenly, a series of shocking yet strangely inevitable circumstances forces Kinsman to confront his hidden past and decide Earth's destiny. In a desperate countdown to nuclear annihilation, Kins...

Josh Gunn and his partners locate and retrieve items or people all over the universe. Not many challenges defied them for long.But getting a spaceship load of sex slaves back to their own planets or to a new home is proving to be tougher than they ever dreamed. Everything they do is draining more of their money and resources.A chance to earn twenty million credits for retrieving some artifacts seems simple enough but reality proves otherwise. The people lurking in the sidelin...