Rian is a lowly serf who spends his days tending the fields, living under the yoke of his feudal Lord. One day, while sowing the winter turnips, a roving band of savage Orc women puts his fief to the torch. Along with all of the valuables, the Orcs take Rian as their prize, carting him back to their secluded stronghold. There, they put him to work cleaning, cooking, and serving them in any way they desire.To his new masters, Rian is a captive, and servitude is cosmic punishment for ...

When Schaffer uncovers a network of black markets and corruption in the heart of the Pinwheel, he is made to disappear, exiled to a remote and inhospitable region of Borealis where he is expected to die of exposure. A fight for survival begins as he braves the dangers of an alien environment and attempts to restore power to an abandoned listening post, but his true salvation may lie in the planet's mysterious natives.

Stanley drops out of agricultural college to join the Navy, and is shipped off to a space station known as the Pinwheel to complete his training as a UNN Marine. There he meets Raz, an unruly alien who he will be forced to befriend if he wants to complete the program.

Dennis has a once in a lifetime opportunity to leave his desk job far behind when he accepts the position of ambassador to Earth on Borealis, but he gets more than he bargained for when he realizes that his new position might not be the promotion that he thought it was...Now the mild-mannered lawyer must contend with aggressive aliens, a hostile environment, and a culture that's about as easy to navigate as a superlight jump.

Disillusioned with the direction humanity is heading, a rogue faction of SWAR – the UN's deadliest special forces group – stage a violent insurrection. Using experimental weapons stolen from a Navy black site, they attempt to take over the remote colony of Hades, where they intend to form their own breakaway civilization. With help months away, the only person who is in a position to oppose them is Ruza – an old veteran of the Kerguela war. The planet is plunged into a brutal conflict, wit...

After Ryan's messy breakup with his girlfriend, he loses his job and finds himself in danger of being evicted from his apartment. With all other options exhausted, he turns to the occult for help, uncovering a hidden world of spirits and magick lurking just beyond his mundane reality. Despite his unorthodox methods, he invokes a demon and successfully binds it in a contract, but its powers are far more subtle than he expected. If Ryan wants to get his life back on track, it's going to take...

Ramos – an ecological engineer – is transferred to the war-torn Rask territory, where Coalition forces recently put down a costly rebellion. There, he's tasked with helping the intimidating locals restore their damaged jungles and farms. To his surprise, he's quickly put in command of a pack of ex-soldiers who are more concerned with jockeying for status than learning to drive a tractor. With a culture that values honor and strength above all else, finding his place in their alien hierarch...

After Ryan loses his girlfriend and his job, he finds himself in danger of being evicted from his apartment. With all other options exhausted, he turns to the occult for help.

King Minos tasks the hero Leandros with slaying a terrible beast that lurks in the depths of an inescapable labyrinth beneath the island of Crete, but all is not as it seems, and the King is hiding a dark secret that could cost him the throne.

It is the twenty-seventh century, and humanity has rallied under the flag of the United Nations in order to join the Coalition, a multi-species alliance working together to defend their borders from hostile alien races. The Pinwheel is the largest and most strategically important military space station in human territory, a place where humans and their allies rub shoulders, living and working in close proximity. Tempers fly and passions inflame as disparate cultures are forced together, al...

The young priest Meritamun spends his days performing religious duties and maintaining the temple in which he lives, content in a humble life in service to the Gods. His routine is turned on its head when he receives a summons from Anput – the living Goddess of death, and the consort of Anubis. He has been chosen to become her personal attendant, but why, he cannot say. His new role will require him to unlearn many of his assumptions about the Gods, and to open himself up to serving hi...

Raz travels to Earth with Stanley to visit the farm where he grew up, and to meet his parents, but how will they react to his giant alien companion?