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History sleeps beneath them all, but only she sees it.Lafayette Eloi grew up in a village of people who remained strangers to her. She and her mother always stood apart, separated from the others by their accent. By the secretive comings and goings of her wayward father. And by the forbidden knowledge her mother imparted to her in the dark of night.With her mother dead and her father trapped in space, Lafayette finally learned why they kept that knowledge s...

History sleeps beneath them all, and she will wake it.Lafayette Eloi used to live the life of an ordinary girl in an ordinary village. But she left that life behind to follow her father on his quest to uncover their planet’s past. Namely, the remains of a crashed starship that proved none of them belonged on this world.His quest ended with him trapped on a spaceship in orbit around their world. But her path carried her on, across bandit-ridden grasslands to...

For Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely.Strange that fate should throw them together now, among the last group of students admitted after the start of the semester. They had once shared the strongest of friendships. But that all ended a long time ago.But when...

History sleeps beneath them all, and she will wake it.Lafayette Eloi stole something incredibly precious. Something she knows her government would kill to keep under their protection. No, under their control.She stole knowledge. Knowledge of the past of all her people.She got away with it, thanks to her new friends in the capital city. Tristan Carey knows more about the world than Lafayette ever knew existed. And Dieter Bohm brings the most crucial ...

This bundle contains the final three books in the Ritchie & Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries.Death on the SummitThe cadets of the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy know more than most about challenging environments. They experience one every day just while crossing their campus. Their planet barely ranks as habitable on the best of days. But now the third and fourth year cadets face even harsher conditions, climbing to heights nearly at the edge of space and totally within the h...

Vic Harper and her gang retired wealthy from their life of thievery and heists. Whether in a luxury condo overlooking the river in Minneapolis or in a modernist mansion built into the side of a mountain in Colorado, life comes easy now.Perhaps too easy.When an old friend asks for a favor his niece, Vic and her mentor Chase Woodward leap at the chance to relieve a little of the boredom. But a quick bit of B&E in a wealthy suburb of Chicago leads to an even greater challenge.

Scout Shannon's whole family died the day the Space Farers dropped an asteroid on their domed city. Now she lives alone, out in the wild with only her dogs for company. She prefers it that way.But Scout finds herself at a crossroads. One road leads back to a quiet life snug under the protective dome of a city. The other road leads to a life in the rebellion, a life of adventure and excitement but also danger. Dare she try to find the rebels hiding in the hills?Then a chance...

After humankind fled Earth for space they discovered one inescapable truth. People die in space. And lots of dead people means lots of ghosts.April Nguyen earns a nice living getting rid of those ghosts. People all over the Solar System clamor for her aid.April’s only problem? Never actually seeing a ghost. She pretends, she feigns, she completely convinces her clients, but she fears her inevitable exposure as a fraud.And then comes Hakim, the ultimate suspicious sc...

This bundle contains the first three books in the Ritchie & Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries.Murder on the Intergalactic RailwayFor Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely.Strange that fate should throw them together now, among the last group of students admit...

Elyot loathes the massive Commonwealth ships that hover menacingly over his home world of Adghal. He hates the Commonwealth enforcers who harass the populace even more.But with his mother missing so long she surely must be dead, Elyot keeps his head down and strives to avoid notice.And he succeeds until the day two strangers appear in the tavern where he waits tables. One dressed in rags with her hands bloodied and bruised, the other in finery beyond the means of the averag...

History sleeps beneath them all, but only she sees it.Lafayette Eloi always knew her parents thought differently from others. They kept their books buried beneath her mother’s house. They spoke an old language in the dead of night, whispering behind closed doors and bolted shutters. She grew up in a village where no one was related to her, and she never knew why.Then, after her mother died, her father came to fetch her. Now she and her mother’s dog assist h...

When a deadly plague ravaged the Earth refugees fled into space, crowding into any space station or lunar colony that would take them. Decades passed and the descendants of the survivors struggle to live in anything remotely spaceworthy.Omesh, banished from his Earthly home, finds himself in Barnacle Town. A collection of salvage clinging to the hull of a space station in lunar orbit. Thousands of lives cling precariously to the hull, at the whim of the corporation that owns the st...