"Military science fiction concentrating on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict."---Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThey gave him a soldier's skills.His war was still hell.Tomas Neumann wants off his backwater planet and away from his suffocating mother. "Taking the shilling"—joining the Confederated Worlds Ground Force—promises escape, purpose, and the father figure he's never had.T...

"[A] thriller-style science fiction tale that's a quick and fun read.... A good start to a promising series." - Sfreader.comOne man can make—or break—Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.On the newly-rediscovered colony world of Freeland, an Earth operative is murdered. Stone's mission: travel through an artificial wormhole to a distant planet. Find the killers. And terminate them....

Decades of interstellar history are a lie.One assassin will risk everything to prove it.Anara has never questioned an order. As a covert operative for the Democracy, she eliminates threats to the interstellar state. Cleanly, quietly, without hesitation. Her latest mission should be no different: encounter a man on his morning walk, poison him, jog away.But her target is a middle-aged college professor. An Incepti, like her—one of a ...

"[U]nusual for military science fiction for its concentration on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict." —AnalogOne soldier. Three battles. The fate of worlds.A thousand years from now, while Earth dreams in virtual reality, three rival governments battle for control of humanity's scattered worlds. Connected by artificial wormholes, divided by ideology, they wage a brutal conflict that will reshape the galaxy.At the center of...

One man can make—or break—Earth's iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth's top operative.Somewhere on the devoutly religious colony world of Trinity, a prize beyond measure lies hidden: the last warpdrive ship outside Earth's control.Stone's mission: verify the reports. And if the ship exists, ensure Earth's enemies never use it.Going undercover with a false identity overlaid on his mind, Stone must navigate a socie...

"Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict."—Analog, on the Confederated Worlds seriesThe Confederated Worlds lost the war.Can Lt. Tomas Neumann win the peace?The ceasefire holds by a thread. Under the fragile peace treaty, citizens of the strategic world Arden will vote to remain with the defeated Confederated Worlds—or defect to the victorious Progressive Republic....

"I’m reminded of Poul Anderson’s Dominic Flandry series, or more recently, Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Anniversary Day saga." —AnalogThe war has ended.The real enemy hides in plain sight.Captain Tomas Neumann thought he'd left the battlefield behind. Assigned to the Confederated Worlds' capital planet, he's focused on rebuilding military morale after their devastating defeat. Politics? Not his fight.That changes when h...

Americans under the thumb of interplanetary Russians. Can they strike a blow for solar system freedom? Andrew wanted a new start, far from a fallen USA under foreign hegemony. The American colony on a moon of Jupiter needed nuclear power technicians like him. To get there, he must journey for months on board a Russian ship. Not alone. Locked in with fellow American colonists who proclaim the New Covenant, just like hi...

Only a bastard can save a kingdom from chaos.A childless queen confined to the palace.A king overly enamored of male companionship.The kingdom desperately needs an heir.Who will father one?Two courtiers ask Keladon, retired battlemage and the king's bastard half-brother, to make his way in secret to the queen's bedchamber. His loyalty to the kingdom overcomes his dread of palace intrigues and his guilt in turning her, a foreign princ...

Stone Chalmers. Earth's top operative. But every spy has a breaking point.The high-tech colony of Minerva has submitted to Earth's control— or so its leaders claim. Stone's mission: travel to this newly-rediscovered world and investigate reports of strange beliefs simmering beneath the submissive surface.With a cloud over his career from his last mission, Stone has no leverage to refuse. Weeks trapped on a ship towing a wormhole to Minerva give him time to ...

Smuggle the “reborn” spiritual leader of an oppressed people past their conquerors.What could go wrong?Solitary spacejock Landry Krieger ekes out a living transporting data through the galaxy—and smuggling people past the watchful eyes of governments, in hiding places he builds in his ship.When the priests of Tao Pacem ask for his help, Landry resists. Dow patch’em? Yin-yang symbols? A plan to sneak a young boy, the “reincarnation” ...

In an artificial world whose inhabitants used advanced neurotechnology to implant skills and habits in playing status games, Pavel trumped all his friends by making himself believe in Christianity. But whether true or false, his new faith wielded a power over Pavel's mind neither he nor his friends expected....