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New book - Chaos Quarter: Horde
Now available for pre-order on Amazon (Debuts June 1st!) - CHAOS QUARTER: HORDE, the third book in the Chaos Quarter series. Rex and his crew find themselves outnumbered eight hundred-to-one is a desperate mission to get a princess home and end a brutal civil war.
Chaos Quarter: Horde
Chaos Quarter: Horde
Chaos Quarter Update!!!
Just finished a first draft on a fourth Chaos Quarter book. Can't give any dates yet, but will be looking to publish in the coming months. Keep an eye out!
New book now available for pre-order!
My newest book, CHAOS QUARTER: WRATH OF THE HEGEMONS, is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Goes lives 9/30/2019. The fourth book in the Chas Quarter series. At the link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XZPC4TB
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XZPC4TB
New CHAOS QUARTER book now available!
Book four in the series, CHAOS QUARTER: WRATH OF THE HEGEMONS, now available at amazon:
Once before Rex Vahl tangled with the Perfected Hegemony, a reclusive superpower of genetic supremacists so altered that some question if they’re any longer human. He and his crew barely survived the experience. Even since then the threat of them has lurked in the back of his mind, growing…When ordered to make contract with the nations bordering Hegemon space, Rex is understandably hesitant, and expecting trouble for his crew. What he did not expect to find was a full-blown war of annihilation.
The Hegemons are no longer reclusive. In fact, now that the universe knows who they are, they have done a complete one-eighty and launched invasions of the only neighboring nations capable of resisting them: the Achaean Confederacy, and Valhalla Free State. Worlds have been conquered, billions have died, and now Rex finds himself and his crew right in the middle of it. When an attempt to rescue an Achaean ship ends with them all trapped on a besieged world, Rex must throw in with his new allies to try and find a way out. Outnumbered and cut-off, desperate options are all they have left. A victory could turn the tide of the entire war, but a defeat could cripple the last military forces of these beleaguered nations, leaving the whole galaxy open to invasion. But what choice remains? Their enemy takes no prisoners, only exterminates and replaces. Against such a foe what else can Rex do but risk it all challenging the wrath of the Hegemons…
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XZPC4TB
Once before Rex Vahl tangled with the Perfected Hegemony, a reclusive superpower of genetic supremacists so altered that some question if they’re any longer human. He and his crew barely survived the experience. Even since then the threat of them has lurked in the back of his mind, growing…When ordered to make contract with the nations bordering Hegemon space, Rex is understandably hesitant, and expecting trouble for his crew. What he did not expect to find was a full-blown war of annihilation.
The Hegemons are no longer reclusive. In fact, now that the universe knows who they are, they have done a complete one-eighty and launched invasions of the only neighboring nations capable of resisting them: the Achaean Confederacy, and Valhalla Free State. Worlds have been conquered, billions have died, and now Rex finds himself and his crew right in the middle of it. When an attempt to rescue an Achaean ship ends with them all trapped on a besieged world, Rex must throw in with his new allies to try and find a way out. Outnumbered and cut-off, desperate options are all they have left. A victory could turn the tide of the entire war, but a defeat could cripple the last military forces of these beleaguered nations, leaving the whole galaxy open to invasion. But what choice remains? Their enemy takes no prisoners, only exterminates and replaces. Against such a foe what else can Rex do but risk it all challenging the wrath of the Hegemons…
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XZPC4TB
Chaos Quarter Update! Book 5
Hey everyone. Writing to let you all know that I have finished a first draft on a new Chaos Quarter book, the fifth in the series. Think of the crew trapped and helpless on a planet ruled by a mafia-style crime syndicate, and having to find a way to get out and get home. Plenty of editing and rewrites left to do, so I can't give a date yet, but I'm hoping for some time this summer. Keep an eye out!
Coming soon...
Rex Vahl just wanted to go home, that’s it. After more than a year in the Chaos Quarter, fighting everything from intergalactic hordes to genetic supremacists, he wants nothing more then to limp back to the Free Terran Commonwealth for a well-deserved break, alongside his friends and the woman he loves. But the universe isn’t that kind. With his ship damaged from months of fighting, he finds himself caught by surprise, his vessel crippled by pirates he normally wouldn’t think twice about. Before he can react he finds half of his crew captured, and the remainder stranded on a hidden world ruled by a vicious crime syndicate. Already stretched to a breaking point, he now finds himself vastly outnumbered, and without the usual technological edge he’s grown to rely on. If he tries to fight, he faces near certain defeat. If he doesn’t, good friends will be sold into slavery. He's used to fighting for people who need the help, but now he’ll be fighting out of anger and desperation, conditions he is not at all accustomed to…
CHAOS QUARTER: SYNDICATE WAYS, coming this summer.
CHAOS QUARTER: SYNDICATE WAYS, coming this summer.
New cover for upcoming book!
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COMING SOON…
Sergucci Mardonna lives by a simple code: power. He has it, he wants to keep it, and he’ll due anything to protect it. The leader of a mafia-style crime syndicate, he rules the conquered world of Mardonna, a backwater planet hidden behind a nebula. He has things just the way he likes, one planet, with one major city, ruled with an iron first. The pacifist natives grow his food and cower under his lash. Everything you want can be found on this world: drugs, guns, women, slaves…everything. But despite having every pleasure a man could want, he’s beginning to feel empty, bored with it all. Even the capture of Lucius Baliol, a wanted fugitive with a huge bounty on his head, does little to change this. The man is at a crossroads in life, on a world where you cannot afford to show any weakness. Making it worse, his valued captive keeps warning of Terrans on his world, coming for him, and determined to cause a lot of trouble…
CHAOS QUARTER: SYNDICATE WAYS, coming this summer.
Sergucci Mardonna lives by a simple code: power. He has it, he wants to keep it, and he’ll due anything to protect it. The leader of a mafia-style crime syndicate, he rules the conquered world of Mardonna, a backwater planet hidden behind a nebula. He has things just the way he likes, one planet, with one major city, ruled with an iron first. The pacifist natives grow his food and cower under his lash. Everything you want can be found on this world: drugs, guns, women, slaves…everything. But despite having every pleasure a man could want, he’s beginning to feel empty, bored with it all. Even the capture of Lucius Baliol, a wanted fugitive with a huge bounty on his head, does little to change this. The man is at a crossroads in life, on a world where you cannot afford to show any weakness. Making it worse, his valued captive keeps warning of Terrans on his world, coming for him, and determined to cause a lot of trouble…
CHAOS QUARTER: SYNDICATE WAYS, coming this summer.
Coming Soon...
Coming soon...
Harlow, despite being over a hundred years old, hasn’t seen that much of the universe. She spent the first half of her life as a genetic supremacist for the monstrous Perfected Hegemony, before fleeing to the Valhallan Norse to live a normal life. But when the last of her family passed away, she threw in with Rex Vahl and the crew of the Longshot, falling in love with the cyborg crewman Jake Gaderi. While her presence may not be entirely welcome, she’s eager to see the universe, the worlds of ‘primitives’ she once looked down on. But when their ship is shot out of the stars Harlow finds herself in the hands of slavers, and struggling to survive on a crimeworld where death is as common as breathing. Alone amongst people she doesn’t know, she’ll discover real quick that some parts of the galaxy may be exciting, but aren’t exactly inviting…
CHAOS QUARTER: SYNDICATE WAYS, coming this summer!
Harlow, despite being over a hundred years old, hasn’t seen that much of the universe. She spent the first half of her life as a genetic supremacist for the monstrous Perfected Hegemony, before fleeing to the Valhallan Norse to live a normal life. But when the last of her family passed away, she threw in with Rex Vahl and the crew of the Longshot, falling in love with the cyborg crewman Jake Gaderi. While her presence may not be entirely welcome, she’s eager to see the universe, the worlds of ‘primitives’ she once looked down on. But when their ship is shot out of the stars Harlow finds herself in the hands of slavers, and struggling to survive on a crimeworld where death is as common as breathing. Alone amongst people she doesn’t know, she’ll discover real quick that some parts of the galaxy may be exciting, but aren’t exactly inviting…
CHAOS QUARTER: SYNDICATE WAYS, coming this summer!
New Chaos Quarter book, available for pre-order!
Rex Vahl just wanted to go home, that’s it. He’s spent nearly a year in the Chaos Quarter, being shot at, kidnapped, tortured, and drawn into other people’s wars. He’s taken on ravaging space hordes and genetic supremacists bent on destroying every last ‘primitive’ human they can find. His ship has been shot up, his crew has been put in danger, he’s nearly lost the woman he loves, and he’s had to deal with stowaways who’ve snuck themselves onto his ship. He’s tired, stretched thin, and wants nothing more than to limp back to the Free Terran Commonwealth for a well-deserved break.
But the universe is not a kind place. After a hidden gravity well sends his battered ship off course, he finds himself ambushed, his vessel crippled by pirates he normally wouldn’t think twice about. Before he can react, he finds half of his crew captured, and the remainder stranded on a hidden world ruled by a vicious crime syndicate. These thugs make their money off slavery, and a city that’s basically a criminal version of Las Vegas, where every vice and evil can be found for a price. Worse still, it’s ruled by a vicious don that’s smart enough to know there’s more to power than brute force. Already stretched to a breaking point, Rex now finds himself vastly outnumbered, and without the usual technological edge he’s grown to rely on. The only people he can turn to for help are pacifist ideologues, who seem to think it’s more moral to be subjugated than dare use violence. If Rex tries to fight, he faces near certain defeat. If he doesn’t, good friends will be sold into slavery. He's used to fighting for people who need the help, but now he’ll be fighting out of anger and desperation, conditions he is not at all prepared for. But Rex isn’t the type to leave people behind, and he’s going to make his move, even if it means burning everything down around them…
Chaos Quarter: Syndicate Ways
But the universe is not a kind place. After a hidden gravity well sends his battered ship off course, he finds himself ambushed, his vessel crippled by pirates he normally wouldn’t think twice about. Before he can react, he finds half of his crew captured, and the remainder stranded on a hidden world ruled by a vicious crime syndicate. These thugs make their money off slavery, and a city that’s basically a criminal version of Las Vegas, where every vice and evil can be found for a price. Worse still, it’s ruled by a vicious don that’s smart enough to know there’s more to power than brute force. Already stretched to a breaking point, Rex now finds himself vastly outnumbered, and without the usual technological edge he’s grown to rely on. The only people he can turn to for help are pacifist ideologues, who seem to think it’s more moral to be subjugated than dare use violence. If Rex tries to fight, he faces near certain defeat. If he doesn’t, good friends will be sold into slavery. He's used to fighting for people who need the help, but now he’ll be fighting out of anger and desperation, conditions he is not at all prepared for. But Rex isn’t the type to leave people behind, and he’s going to make his move, even if it means burning everything down around them…
Chaos Quarter: Syndicate Ways
