Heroes and saviours are not always where you expectOldEarth is long abandoned now, NewEarth a fresh beginning. Its vassal worlds have spread across the void, not always under all the supervision that NewEarth intended. Though NewEarth itself might lead one to suspect the reasons...Luc is an illegal child surviving in the lowest depths, at risk from authority. Ailyn is a Legal, daughter of a General. With her friends, Ailyn visits the lower levels for excite...

If Harp could wish, he’d be invisible.Orphaned as a child, failed by a broken system and raised on a struggling colony world, Harp’s isolated existence turns upside down when his rancher boss hands him into military service in lieu of the taxes he cannot pay. Since Harp has spent his whole life being regarded with suspicion, and treated as less, why would he expect his latest environment to be any different? Except it is, so is it any wonder he decides to hide the ‘...

If Harp could wish, he'd be invisible.Orphaned as a child, failed by a broken system and raised on a struggling colony world, Harp's isolated existence turns upside down when his rancher boss hands him into military service in lieu of the taxes he cannot pay. Since Harp has spent his whole life being regarded with suspicion, and treated as less, why would he expect his latest environment to be any different? Except it is, so is it any wonder he decides to hide the ...

No longer invisible, Harp finds that fame, and family, 
might mean an even riskier future.In Harpan's Worlds Harp faced his own personal history, and its repercussions. In Worlds Aligned he must deal with the results. Providing of course that he survives them.So Worlds Aligned is a second glimpse of the humans who survive long after OldEarth is abandoned.Note: Harpan's Worlds and Worlds Aligned form a duo...

A desert prince's love for his slave can become his salvation -- or his undoing.Prince Ashamet does not believe in love. But a gift of an exotic pale-skinned foreign slave unexpectedly turns his world around. The handsome Keril's purity and innocence are unlike anything Ashamet has ever encountered in a grown man. Amidst the court intrigues and mysterious attempts on his life, Ashamet finds himself far too preoccupied with gaining his slave's trust.But is Keril's love truly...

A Coming of Age story, and so much more.OldEarth is long abandoned, practically forgotten. By now NewEarth rules colonies on far-flung planets. One such, Demmos to its settlers, is a mild-climate little world that's inconveniently at the outer limit of NewEarth's expansion, but a welcome source of basic food-grain, and a breeding ground for any useful talent they decide to harvest. And it's growing nicely now their real settlers have been added.Several gene...

StoriesSomething Fishy—David L ClementsMessage in a Bottle—Davyne DeSyeAn Infinite Number of Me—Dan Grace3.8 Missions—Katie GrayAnyone Can ask About Enhancement—Terry JackmanThe Walls of Tithonium Chasma—Tim MajorQuantum Flush—Daniel SouleBrother’s Keeper—Shannon Connor WinwardThat Very Mab—May Kendall and Andrew Lang (SF Caledonia)Noise and Sparks: Ruth EJ BoothTales of the Beachcomber—Mark TonerMonic...

Book 2 of the Artemis Files...When Bren Montclare, merchant, rogue and contract mercenary left Elysium, he desired nothing more than an opportunity to recover from his baptism of fire into counter-intelligence operations and the chance to sell his cargo. However life in the Hinterlands can never be that simple when you're in exile and a long way from home. While pirates gather in greater numbers and prey on merchant shipping in the region, Bren Montclare and his starship DIANA are ...

After the notorious outlaws Amaranthe and Sicarius helped overthrow the corrupt faction controlling the empire and brought in a great war hero to lead the nation to prosperity, they finally earned their pardons—and some time off. A tropical vacation cruising around in a private submarine? Perfect. But their trip is interrupted by a summons from the new president: they're needed back at home. Trouble unlike anything they've ever dealt with threatens to destroy the capital city and throw the...

Ace fighter pilot Anastasia Seivers is offered a secret assignment: to join a squadron taking the fight to Concorde's true enemies. But this squadron isn't part of the regular Concorde military, it is attached to the Legion Libertus, the independent force responsible for saving thousands of lives after the nuclear attack. After initial hope that her new commanders will be different, Seivers starts to suspect that they too are prejudiced against her.Determined to remove the chip from...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKA WASHINGTON POST BEST FEEL-GOOD BOOK OF THE YEARFor fans of Amy Tan, KJ Dell’Antonia, and Kevin Kwan, this “sharp, smart, and gloriously extra” (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee) debut celebrates a family of estranged Vietnamese women who experiences mishaps and unexpected joy after a psychic makes a startling prediction about the...

BURNING WATERSDesignated Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, Matt Reddy must now contend with a new threat; the Dominion—humans whose lust for power matches the Grik. But even though the Grand Alliance recognizes the danger of the Dominion, it must deal with the land-based Grik first, leaving the Imperial navy—and USS Walker—with little assistance.As war rages, more Japanese ships come through the time-space maelstrom that the Americans call Th...