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...

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!

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...

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...

Abducted by aliens. Frozen for decades.Charlie Travers figures his life can’t get much worse. He lives over a pizza restaurant, he’s lost his girlfriend, and has no prospects for a career.Then, he’s abducted by an alien robot and taken across the galaxy. When he wakes up, he finds himself stranded thousands of light-years away and about to be killed by space pirates.Charlie’s only hope of getting through this is learning to work with his fellow abdu...

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...

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.

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...

Sometimes, it takes killing to make a living.That fiancee? She’s married—to another guy.The family business? His parents sold it.Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do?Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contr...

You can’t fight a war without guns.Charlie and his friends need to arm their ship, but they have a small problem—black market particle cannons cost a lot of money. And they don’t have any.Which leaves them only one option. They have to steal the guns from the Anguilar Empire.It’s a daring plan, but it backfires when Laranna is captured by the enemy and taken back to her homeworld of Strada, which has been conquered and garrisoned by the Empire....

Charlie Travers has been away from home for a long time, fighting to free the galaxy from the tyranny of the Anguilar Empire.But now the Anguilar know where that home is...and it's only a matter of time before they set their sights on Earth, intent on conquest and enslavement.Charlie doesn't have enough troops or supplies to stop them. And there's only one place he can get them.The one place the Anguilar are intent on conquering. Charl...

If you’re going to fight a space war, you have to have spaceships.Charlie has a headquarters, a purpose, and an army…everything you need to build a resistance.Except warships.The Anguilar have plenty, but they also know the resistance will be coming after them, and they’ve set a hardened killer to hunt down Charlie.The deadly bounty hunter Seraph Nix is on the hunt as the crew of the Revenant travels across the galaxy searching for a le...