The Collapse. Civilization swept away in the historical equivalent of the blink of an eye. Man reduced to little more than a parasite living off the carcass of the Old World. After twenty years, little was left for even the most diligent of scavengers to recover.Animals had vanished, replaced with creatures that had never existed on Earth. Reproduction was difficult, water supplies poisoned and the world just kept on getting warmer.As the saying went - The world was not what ...

The Humals. Humanoid Aliens. They dominated the spiral arm millennia ago then vanished without trace. Man had found traces of their presence, reverse-engineered their technology and speculated endlessly about their demise. But no one really knew what had happened. No one knew why they had disappeared or why so few traces of them remained.For James Hamilton the Humals were not something he concerned himself about. Not, that is, until a billionaire philanthropist seeks him out with a...

Corporal Lucas Wright was in trouble. Held pending an investigation following his last mission, he is forced to relate the events of that mission over and over again.But this last time was different, for his "interviewers" were not the regular military investigators he was used to.As the interview, and his story, unfold, he begins to suspect that there is a lot more going on than he knows and that his interviewers have their own agenda.Whoever they are and whatever ...

Nathan Smith had done what he'd been asked to do. He had found a place where his failing community could find food, water, shelter and everything that they were currently lacking.Returning to his community with the news, however, was not quite the triumphant homecoming he had envisaged. Internal politics, petty-mindedness and the presence of those who had reason to hate him all conspired to sour his return.Others had plans for the community. Plans that didn't include him, or ...

The Children of Icarus (Chronicles of the Collapse, Book 5)For Nathan's group, things looked at their lowest.Though they had escaped the clutches of the slavers, it had not been without cost. A number of their own were dead at the slaver's hands or gone, kidnapped by Colonel Ryerson's men, including Nathan himself.Hiding in Albertville, with their compound now under the control of the Fortuna militia, the survivors rest and lick their wounds. Wounds which, alarmingly...

The Whispers of Eris (Chronicles of the Collapse, Book 3)Albertville. It was a place that should not exist in Nathan's world. A city that should have been a small town and which showed none of the ruin and devastation prevalent elsewhere. It was a city from another world, another reality. A city full of dark secrets.For Nathan Smith and his band it was a place to plunder so that their own community, Fortuna, might survive. But setting up a supply route was not to be as easy...

The Legacy of Circe (Chronicles of the Collapse, Book 6)Coming home.For Nathan, it has been the foremost thought in his mind ever since he had been abducted by Ryerson's men.Though he fears what he might find, he pushes on, desperate to return to the woman he loves.But things change and sometimes you discover that the world you left behind has moved on without you.His companions, believing him dead, are struggling to stay ahead of the many enemies that h...

The Hand of Erebus (Chronicles of the Collapse, Book 4)The world was unravelling.Nathan knew it now, thought there was little that he could do about it. Though he possessed technology that might be helpful someday,his understanding of it was limited and tinkering with it could have catastrophic consequences.With more immediate and pressing matters to attend to, he continues the daily struggle to survive and make something of the fledgling community that he an...

James Hamilton was dead. Killed in a failed mission to secure scientific help to find a way to defeat the alien invaders.For those who have escaped, survival is a priority. Pursued by both the aliens and the Imperials, they struggle to continue the fight and to follow the slim leads they had uncovered.But time is growing short. Walsh, the leader of the alien invaders, grows tired of the game of cat-and-mouse he is playing and his followers grow increasingly restless at his ...

Bruised and battered after a gruelling battle against the invaders of human space, the survivors continue their search for a way to defeat the aliens.Their single hope lies in the information contained within a Humal artefact. Information that promises them a long voyage to a distant star system. A system that, as far as theycan tell, was once part of the mighty Humal Empire.So begins a journey that will test them all to their limits. A journey into darkness beset by...

The Jada-Ko-Vari. A sentient, alien virus-race that infects any storage medium sufficiently large to contain them – computers, ships, even the human brain. Once inside, they control whatever they occupy completely. Their goal is simple. To eradicate humanity.After a brush with the supposed leader of the aliens, James Hamilton and his ship-mates return to human space to find everything seemingly normal.But normality is something Hamilton has grown wary of over the years....

Lucas Wright had joined the shadowy Special Operations Group in order to get information. Knowledge that, as a mere soldier, he had little hope of being privy to.But now, on his first mission for the Group, he would find that the so-called "Revenant Syndrome" was far more widespread and bizarre than anyone had imagined. Sent in to extract the first-known victim of the Syndrome, things quickly get out of hand.Thrust into the heart of enemy territory, he must use all his skil...