Warning! Wildlife may be dangerous. Proceed beyond this point at your own risk.When celebrated Omicron detective Ferrix 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 wh...

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...

Two lost heroes from the past are the only hope for our future.The war of the border worlds is about to re-ignite.And it's Corporal Gus Trillion's job at the Propaganda Office to drum up recruits. But the people of the inner colonies have heard one too many false alarms. Disabled in battle and on the verge of burnout, Gus shares their indifference--until his reporter friend Lyssa Baltacha stumbles upon top secret satellite footage indicating that the treacherous Sheikers ar...

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...

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...

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 ...

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. ...

New species. Old wounds. A fight for supremacy on the galaxy's wildest planet.When Hesperidia's satellite defense system suffers a catastrophic failure, the meteor shower it was supposed to repel rains down over the terrified tourists on safari. Three large surface impacts trigger a crisis intervention from the colonial authorities. It results in the removal of the current governor, and auditions for a successor are soon underway. Jan, Alien Safari's pre-eminent ranger-scientist, f...

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...

The final action-packed installment in Robert Appleton's sci-fi survival trilogy.Jason Remington has been abducted by a monstrous creature. Having barely survived the ocean crossing, Kate Borrowdale must track him through an alien forest and over its low gravity roof. She finds him alive, but he is not alone.Two men and a woman, also survivors from the Fair Monique's crash, have rescued him and killed the creature. How? Kate senses they're hiding a secret and doesn't trust ...

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.

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...