Blue collar Sci Fi in the vein of Firefly.Running a starship repo company isn’t easy or cheap. It’s just an endless string of fuel costs, ship maintenance, legal red tape, unhappy debt bailers, shady associates and uncooperative dock officials from one end of the galaxy to the other.Nathan Teller owns and operates Milky Way Repossessions, a company that tracks down and repossesses starships. And although he's only managing to break even on his debt, he woul...

A sci-fi crime novel set in a dirty, corrupt universe.The starship repossession agents of Milky Way Repo are sent to the desolate settlement of Bad Rock to retrieve a vessel. Once there, they become entangled with a notorious thug running a smuggling operation for the Syndicate. Struggling to do the right thing while trying to complete their job, things go seriously awry with deadly consequences."The Milky Way Repo universe is populated by hard working men ...

A town haunted by the missing will never be the same.Nine years after Kelly Dolan vanished, a small Ohio town is rocked by a convenience store robbery turned double murder. Reporter Tim Abernathy and investigator Paulie Carmichael suspect a connection, but can they convince the police?As they dig deeper, they uncover a chilling pattern of unsolved disappearances and brutal killings, leading them to believe a serial killer is at work. But in a town shrouded ...

Someone is angry in Hogan, Ohio.Residents of the small town are plagued by vicious, anonymous letters. The personalized notes land in mailboxes with devastating effect, revealing secrets and deeds better kept unknown. Whoever the sender is, they know the town and the people who live there.Reporter Tim Abernathy is assigned to the story and tasked with finding out who is sending the letters and why. The letter writer doesn't want to be found, however, and will kill to keep h...

Dive in and buckle up, nothing is as it seems…In a galaxy controlled by powerful corporations and crooked government officials, captain Nathan Teller and his crew struggle to keep their starship repo business afloat.Faced with escalating debt and their starship on lockdown, Nathan and the crew reluctantly accept a dubious repo job that sends them on a thrilling chase through the cosmos.As old enemies lurk, and new threats become apparent, they must overcome their bi...

Set in a world terrorized by genetically engineered assassins, this is a “fast-paced future thriller” for fans of cyberpunk sci-fi and the Paratwa Saga (B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog)Near the end of the 21st century, Earth is in chaos from environmental devastation and a vicious undeclared war against binaries, genetically engineered assassins. Composed of a single consciousness inhabiting two human bodies (tways), binaries are ruled by an alpha breed, the Roy...

Outside the bubble, a radiated wasteland turns men to madness. Inside the bubble, unchecked greed turns men into monsters.Merrik knows what horrors lie in wait beyond the city’s protective bubble—the solar radiation ravaged wastelands and the half-mad survivors who lost the lottery to get inside. As the city bounty hunter, he’s sworn to enforce the laws that keep their fragile pocket of civilization intact, even if it means venturing into the desolate wilds himself.But when...

Months into a war with the Mitasterites, sniper captain June Vereeth and fellow T.U. soldiers find themselves on the frozen wastes of P-75 to defend a fuel dump. Disaster strikes when a cave-in saves Vereeth and four soldiers from a cataclysmic blast. Now they have little food, no radio, no map and no way off the planet.P-75 is winter world of mysteries and dangerous wildlife--and a tomb for many lost souls. As the hell-bent Mitasterites return to the surface, will this unforgiving...

Grady operates undercover as a Mutant Hunter rescuing colonies from extermination. He discovers his cover is blown when he escapes a trap set by other hunters only to find the attack on him is part of a rapidly unfolding crisis.When his new partner Shrilla, finds out that Grady isn’t who she thinks he is, it’s all she can do not to put a bullet in his back.Now they are the hunted and have to put aside their mutual distrust to save themselves, their agency and a mutant world ...

Two mysterious alien spaceships are heading for Earth, bringing either salvation or destruction. Can Moses Jameson and his team unlock the ancient secrets behind their mission — before time runs out for humanity?

Wanted: Translator for first contact. Immediate opening. Danger pay allowance.Estlin Hume lives in Twin Butte, Alberta surrounded by a horde of affectionate squirrels. His involuntary squirrel-attracting talent leaves him evicted, expelled, fired and near penniless until two aliens arrive and adopt him as their translator. Yanked around the world at the center of the first contact crisis, Estlin finds his new employers incomprehensible. As he faces the ultimate lan...

**All five stories collected in this volume have been previously published in various collections, novels and anthologies, including Forge and Steel, Planetary Assault, First Conquest, Desolator: Conquest, and Jerry Pournelle's There Will Be War X.**Earth and her solar system are under continuous attack by an empire of a thousand worlds. The enemy's living ships spread inexorably from star to star, reproducing along the way. The only thing standing in their way are...