The war is over and Andy Clanton is ready to live happily ever after. Space Force has other ideas.Recruited to follow the last signal of the mysterious Elders to a system halfway across the galaxy, Andy joins the crew of the James Bowie for another adventure into the unknown.The journey will be filled with mystery and wonder, with strange life seeded on far-flung worlds by the godlike Elders…and with danger. For the Elders didn't leave our galaxy o...

The Bugs are coming...They destroyed the civilization of the ancient alien Elders thousands of years ago, and now they're following Andy Clanton and the crew of the James Bowie back from the edge of the galaxy and into Alliance space, bent on wiping out all intelligent life in the galaxy.The Bugs probe for weakness, attacking new friends and old enemies, and forcing Andy and the others into union with forces that had tried to destroy them only mont...

Andy Clanton and the crew of the Jambo return to Earth for the final battle with the Bugs…but the real threat is back home.Incited by foreign enemies, stoked by mindless fear, the American public is wrapped in panic, and the country's enemies use the opportunity to attempt a coup to seize control of America's space assets.Andy and the others are forced to go on the run, while Pops stays on Earth to organize a resistance. Andy and Julie steal the Bellerophon...

Revenge is heading to Earth at the speed of light…The Gaia probes left a dying Earth millennia ago in a bold effort to spread life to a lifeless universe.Unfortunately, not all of those worlds were uninhabited...The aliens watched their world die to swarms of nanite terraformers, but with their last breath they launched a terrible, unstoppable weapon to kill those who'd stolen their home.Patrol Captain Sam Avalon is the first human to encounter it, a missile...

Alex Kane was broken.Broken by the war, by the death of his lover, ready to kill himself...until his old bosses from Fleet Intelligence offered him a chance at redemption with one last mission.All he had to do was walk into the middle of a gang war, penetrate an insular cult of cyborgs and kill the same sort of half-alien, half-machine monster who'd killed the love of his life during the war...the same machine the cyborgs worship as their messiah.What could go wrong...

Holly is torn between her duty to the Commonwealth military and her devotion to an old love.Alek wants to start a revolution...but not without Holly.When she's sent to the edges of human space to capture or kill him, will Holly choose her duty...or her heart?JUDGEMENT CALL is an 9000 word short story in the Commonwealth universe of Glory Boy and Birthright!

A disaffected playboy searches for redemption.A traumatized war vet searches for meaning and truth.A ruthless Corporate Council fixer searches for the one big score that will make her career.What they all seek, on the same remote colony world, is....The Gate of Dreams.A 6500-word short story set in the Birthright universe.

Ryan Hendrix is dead …… Or so his family, his girlfriend, and his fellow Marines think.Terribly wounded during the battle for Hermes, Ryan Hendrix was repaired with cybernetics, transformed into a weapon by Fleet Intelligence … and covertly dropped onto the enemy-occupied colony at Aphrodite to sabotage the enemy and build up a civilian resistance.While Ryan fights the real battle behind enemy lines, Travis Miller and Jessica Leer struggle with politics … a...

We’ve won a battle … but we’re losing the war.Travis Miller, his image reformed from the moron who screwed up our first contact with aliens to one of the heroes of the Battle for Eden, is given a new assignment: retake the occupied colony of Brigantia. Losing it would be a glancing blow to the Tahni Imperium, but it would be Earth’s first solid strike against them, a chance to go on the offensive.Ryan Hendrix and the Fleet Marines will be the tip of the spe...

First contact gone wrong …It was every starship captain’s nightmare, and for Travis Miller, it was his own personal hell.He’d done everything by the book, but when the Tahni had attacked him and his crew, there was no choice but to return fire and destroy the first alien vessel humans had ever encountered.Excoriated in the press, his career in shambles, Travis is exiled to a long patrol of the outer colony worlds. Forgotten, except as a bad example ...

The End is nigh …The war with the Tahni has dragged on for over two years, taking its toll on the lives of all involved.On the Aphrodite colony, Marine turned cybernetic commando Ryan Hendrix is readying his civilian militia to make one final strike against the enemy, in what they know could be a suicide mission.Back in Commonwealth space, Travis Miller and his task force have finally been given clearance to take back the occupied colony system. But...

The good guys won the battle, but the war goes on.Wash Williams has been recruited to help Brian Reeves and the Delta Force team close gates to the worlds controlled by the Hive-Mind, while back on Thacia, Valon does the same thing from the other side.But new gates continue to open, and unless someone can figure out how to stop the effect, it will keep spreading and the war will never end.The only hope the Earthers and the Thacians have may be to work together in a ...