*** 2017 Dragon Award Finalist for Best Military Scifi ***Heir to one of the leading "Four Horsemen" mercenary companies, Jim Cartwright is having a bad year. Having failed his high school VOWS tests, he's just learned his mother bankrupted the family company before disappearing, robbing him of his Cavalier birthright.But the Horsemen of eras past were smart—they left a legacy of equipment Jim can use to complete the next contract and resurrect the company....

For more than a century, Winged Hussars has been the richest of Earth's mercenary companies, as well as the only one to specialize in space warfare. Led by Alexis Cromwell, they have carved out a reputation in the galaxy for being dependable, unflappable, and lethally efficient. Until people began shooting at them everywhere they went.Rick Culper left Earth in the hopes of finding a job as a merc. A natural at fighting in the armed suits known as CASPers, he finally caught on with ...

Civilization is gone, buried in the rubble and bodies of a thousand cities. The mindless zombie hordes number in the millions, roaming the earth, hunting, killing, looking for the last few survivors.Off the coast of California, a group of survivors desperately clings to life in a small flotilla, which is slowly getting smaller as they are beset from the inside as well as out. Another squadron of ships seeks to rendezvous with them, but they are being hunted by a wolf pack of Russia...

Five hundred years have passed, and Earth is but a distant memory, a story told to children. Bellatrix is humanity's home now, as well as its future.When the alien race responsible for mankind's rescue returned, humanity found that its rescue came at a price—it had to serve its alien masters to repay that act, and the Chosen were formed.Minu is the daughter of the First Among the Chosen. While she wants to follow in her father's footsteps, very few women are Chosen. When he...

A month has passed since the Strain Delta plague was unleashed on Earth, and most of mankind has already succumbed. All animals are carriers, all food is suspect, and nowhere is safe. Yet small groups still struggle to survive.In Texas, Vance Cartwright and his band of survivalists try to ride out the swarm of infected while Colonel Cobb Pendleton and his men fight to cross 2,000 miles of badlands to reach safety.In the Pacific, Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Tobin is a helple...

Old mercs don't die, you do.Abraham Murdock left his home of Sheridan Arkansas at seventeen to start a merc career that spanned almost 50 years, working for dozens of companies, killing aliens and getting paid across the galaxy.Near the end of his career, he landed a gig with Cartwright's Cavaliers. The storied Four Horsemen unit was just coming back from near catastrophe, and the battle-proven Murdock was an ideal choice for their top sergeant. It would ha...

Having successfully saved Cartwright's Cavaliers from bankruptcy, Jim Cartwright has a new quest—he wants to know more about Raknar. Unfortunately for him, the secrets of the giant machines appear to have been lost to antiquity. Still…he has to try.After returning from a lucrative contact, he secures a base of operation for his Cavaliers in the Karma system, then he sets off toward the galactic core. It's something he feels he needs to do by himself, so he leaves his over-protectiv...

They came from the night sky, lighting the heavens like the promise of salvation. But they didn't bring deliverance…they brought something far, far worse. Something that turns people into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. And it's spreading.A reporter follows her story of unspeakable horror south of the border and finds it's worse than she imagined.A wounded fighter pilot finally gets his chance to return to duty but is faced with a mission that could cost him his wings, or...

Terry Clark grew up surrounded by his parent's life's work, the rescue and rehabilitation of cetaceans.Born just after first contact with the Galactic Union, he's never known a time when aliens weren't visiting Earth. At 10 years old, he had a normal life, until a visit from one of the aliens resulted in a ground-breaking discovery. The cetaceans have a developed and complex language...and it can be deciphered by the aliens' translators.When Terry's father ...

Taiki Sato had long been the genius behind the Winged Hussars' success. He spent years innovating, discovering new technologies, and generally making a nuisance of himself. But when he took his first trip to 2nd Level Hyperspace, everything changed. He created an innovative pinplant design, which he had Nemo, the Hussar's Wrogul physician, install. A short time later, he executed a perfectly planned escape, disappearing from New Warsaw.The new pinplants had awakened memories previo...

Chosen. Warrior. Detective?Six years after Minu Groves' return from her galaxy-spanning quest, she has become a member of the Chosen council—but due to conflicts with others on that council, she's been put into virtual retirement as a university dean. Until one day, when she learns a truth about her long-missing father that shakes her to the core, causing her to wonder…Is he still alive?Clues lead into the darkness of space, and once more she and her friends have an...

The Galaxy is Not a Safe Place!More than five hundred years after Earth's destruction, the descendants of humanity's survivors are finally coming into their own under the leadership of First Among the Chosen Minu Groves. They've gained allies and slowly built their strength, and now Minu has decided the time has come to make their bid for freedom from the Tog, humanity's sponsors in the interspecies Concordia.The Higher Order species have fleets of starship...