Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk.When Detective Vaughn is called in to investigate a deadly breach on Hesperidia, a protected planet full of indigenous wildlife, he doesn't know what to expect. The place used to be a tourist attraction, but the safari tours were discontinued long ago due to rampant poaching. Only a handful of researchers live there now, including Jan Corbija, the young woman who reported the breach.The deeper Va...

When the annual Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska is hit by a series of late-winter storms, bush pilot Ben Helm gambles on a break in the weather to fly two dropped dogs and two race personnel to the checkpoint at Unalakleet. But the conditions worsen, and a catastrophic accident mid-flight forces Ben to ditch on the landfast sea ice somewhere on the Bering Sea.Stranded, with no communications and only limited supplies, the three survivors, with their two canine companions, must try...

What if you fell from a great height...toward a ground you couldn't see...and hours later you were still falling?For survival. For love...on a distant alien planet. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, terrain scout Kate Borrowdale must escape the treacherous peaks of Kratos and traverse a strange, hidden world beneath the clouds.Book One in The Eleven Hour Fall trilogy. Newly revised 2013 edition.

Alone. Double-crossed. Pursued across thousands of miles of alien desert on his beloved hoverbike, Finnegan is holding onto two things dearer than life itself: the priceless biotech prize he's stolen, and the opportunity for revenge against the treacherous employer who left him for dead. He's never met her, but he knows all about her family, the most ruthless criminal syndicate of the inner colonies.But when he finds a beautiful stranded woman badly wounded in the middle of nowhere...

Beyond war. Beyond love. Into legend.Armed with a fabled combat suit left to her by a dying warrior race, Gabby Rojas enters the deadliest standoff of the war as a rogue sniper with one goal: to keep her husband alive at all costs. Dalton is a high school teacher, not a soldier, but he's volunteered to fight for the good of the colonies, against her advice. Gabby, on the other hand, is a black-ops prodigy who turned her back on the military years ago. The consequences of re-enterin...

It's the newest, most thrilling sightseeing cruise in the Alien Safari brochure.For ranger Jan Corbija, ferrying rich tourists around the aquatic wonders of Hesperidia's islands helps to fund her important scientific research. But her final 'White Water' tour of the season might just be one sail too many when passengers steal her equipment for a dive into uncharted depths, triggering a tragic series of events.A leisurely cruise becomes a race against time when a young girl ...

Reach the dizzying heights of adventure … kilometers below.When an old acquaintance arrives seeking refuge on Hesperidia, Vaughn and Jan reluctantly give him sanctuary. Trouble follows wherever he goes, but he's also custodian of an extraordinary alien secret that he's used to save countless lives across the colonies. This time, however, his own nine lives may have run out. Diurnal, the most feared hit squad in the galaxy, has tracked him all the way to the Hesp. A...

A daring leap to avoid disaster finds a hidden world of adventure.For survival, for love...on a distant alien planet. With the man of her dreams unconscious in her arms, terrain scout Kate Borrowdale must escape the treacherous peaks of Kratos and traverse a strange, hidden world beneath the clouds.Includes all three (newly revised) books in the trilogy: The Eleven Hour Fall, The Elemental Crossing and Kate of Kratos.

Explore. Protect. Survive.When Jan has to leave Hesperidia for the first time in decades to attend a crucial summit, she's forced to abandon the search for a missing keystone creature, the majestic cor'arkhis. Countless species in its secluded ecosystem depend on that apex animal for survival. Its absence poses a troubling mystery that could have profound consequences for wildlife in the region.So she recruits her lawman partner, Vaughn, to take up the search in her stead. ...

Untamed. Unstoppable. Unleashed.A sudden vicious attack on a safari patrol ship crossing the savanna plains cripples the vessel and almost kills one of the rangers inside. No one got a good look at the creature responsible, but one survivor reports animal features that don't correspond to any known species on that continent. Jan organizes a search party to try to locate the aggressive intruder before it wreaks further havoc on the ecosystem.The bigger quest...

A murder investigation at an interstellar beauty pageant draws two detectives into a deadly mystery.Detectives Rappeneau and Thorpe-Campbell are from different worlds. One's a debonair number-cruncher with a posh accent, the other's a hard-edged burn-out a hair's breadth away from suspension. They'd settle for a week of eye candy and full body massages. But there's been a vicious murder at the famous lunar resort of Pont de Rêves. And with a half-billion-credit purse up for grabs, ...

Excitement and danger collide on the galaxy's wildest ride.With Alien Safari's reputation in tatters after the tenax disaster, Jan invites a select group of influential journalists to experience Hesperidia for themselves, hoping their reports will sway public opinion back in her favor. In partnership with Detective Vaughn, now the operation's permanent Security Chief, she launches an all-or-nothing intercontinental tour, incorporating the thrilling highlights of all the previous to...