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This book is available free to my readers. It’s a special gift for those of you who enjoyed books one through three and want to know what happens next.

When pirates capture the vessel he’s traveling on Ciarán mac Diarmuid barges in to deal with the situation. Deal with it quickly. Either he arrives at Unity Station in time for his merchant examination or his career is over, and with it the careers of his captain and his crew.

Forced to travel alone and under an alias, Ciarán must use all of his talents to outsmart his captors, rescue a missing VIP, and stop a hidden plot that threatens, not just the lives and fortunes of his ship and crew, but all life in Freeman space. His only ally? An unemployed geologist, quite possibly a fugitive, and definitely more than she’s letting on.

The clock is ticking. Because there’s only one thing Merchant Guild Master Roche hates more than the man who killed her brother. And that’s a merchant apprentice who shows up late for his own lynching.

Quite Possibly Final? Definitely.

Quite Possibly Fatal? Maybe.

There’s only one way to know for certain.

Read the final chapter in the Quite Possibly Alien series today.

Note: The events of this story take place after book three of the Freeman Universe series. (There are spoilers.)

READER WARNING: This is the epilogue to the series. If you start here you will be starting at the end of the story.

Book 3.5 in the Freeman Universe series. Available here for loyal readers like you.

Book one, Quite Possibly Alien , book two, Quite Possibly Allies, and book 3, Quite Possibly Heroes are available in print and Kindle Unlimited.

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Associate Engineer Macer Gant doesn’t want much from life. A brew or two, pretty girls, three square meals and an honest job working the big iron, pushing a big load, in a big sky. There’s no in-system tug bigger than Truxton’s Tractor Four Squared, and no better gig than propulsion engineer. Life isn’t just good. It’s great.

Great, until a plague ship tears into Trinity space, a dead hull arrowing straight for the nic Cartaí shipyard and the thousands living and working there. Only Four Squared can stop it. But the captain won’t, not just because he hates nic Cartaí, but because doing so would reveal what Four Squared can really do. 

Macer must choose between hanging for failing to render aid or hanging for mutiny. Which has to be the easiest choice in the world. No way is he dangling before lighting up Four Squared’s hidden monster, and without at least whispering the ageless war cry of his wrench-wielding tribe. 

Hold my beer. I got this.

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I’ve created this special book for my loyal readers and it’s only available here.

Getting a straight answer from the mysterious Hector Poole is like getting blood from a stone. But once the blood starts flowing there’s no stopping it, not without revealing further secrets best kept hidden.

Senior Captain Maris Solon knows better than to trust Poole twice. But trust him she must, when she’s lured to the planet Sampson by the Queen’s Merlin and forced to choose between darkness and light.

There is more at stake than anyone has imagined and Maris isn’t sure she wants to know.

Will the truth set her free or shackle her to a destiny only a martyr, or a madman, would embrace?

Note: The events of this story take place between books two and three of the Freeman Universe series. (There are spoilers.)

READER WARNING: If you’re the sort of reader that likes to discover the world along with the main characters then don’t read this story. But if you abhor a mystery then read on.

Fair warning, you will not be able to unlearn what Maris learns.

Book 2.5 in the Freeman Universe series. Only available here for loyal readers like you.

Book one, Quite Possibly Alien, is available in print and Kindle Unlimited.

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I’ve created this special book for my loyal readers and it’s only available here.

Seanscéal means ‘old story.’ Like a parable, or a fable, but generally more long-winded. It’s like… entertainment, but often with something meant to be learned hidden inside. Not only is it good fun, but sharing a seanscéal is also a way of getting around the not-waking-the-dead custom.

And that’s exactly what Ciarán does, three times, skirting custom to explain:

How he won a posting to the Freeman Merchant Academy.

How he and his cat, the mong hu Wisp, first met.

How he learned the Iron Rule and the enduring cost of that lesson.

It’s no small thing, breaking with custom. But when the price of ignorance is measured in lives?

Someone has to speak up.

Note: The events of this story take place between books one and two of the Freeman Universe series. (There are spoilers.)

Book one, Quite Possibly Alien, is available in print and Kindle Unlimited.

The post Quite Possibly True – Available Now appeared first on Patrick O'Sullivan.

I’ve created this special book for my loyal readers and it’s only available here.

Getting a straight answer from the mysterious Hector Poole is like getting blood from a stone. But once the blood starts flowing there’s no stopping it, not without revealing further secrets best kept hidden.

Senior Captain Maris Solon knows better than to trust Poole twice. But trust him she must, when she’s lured to the planet Sampson by the Queen’s Merlin and forced to choose between darkness and light.

There is more at stake than anyone has imagined and Maris isn’t sure she wants to know.

Will the truth set her free or shackle her to a destiny only a martyr, or a madman, would embrace?

Note: The events of this story take place between books two and three of the Freeman Universe series. (There are spoilers.)

READER WARNING: If you’re the sort of reader that likes to discover the world along with the main characters then don’t read this story. But if you abhor a mystery then read on.

Fair warning, you will not be able to unlearn what Maris learns.

Book 2.5 in the Freeman Universe series. Only available here for loyal readers like you.

Book one, Quite Possibly Alien, is available in print and Kindle Unlimited.

The post Quite Possibly False – Coming Soon appeared first on Patrick O'Sullivan.

I’ve created this special book for my loyal readers and it’s only available here.

Seanscéal means ‘old story.’ Like a parable, or a fable, but generally more long-winded. It’s like… entertainment, but often with something meant to be learned hidden inside. Not only is it good fun, but sharing a seanscéal is also a way of getting around the not-waking-the-dead custom.

And that’s exactly what Ciarán does, three times, skirting custom to explain:

How he won a posting to the Freeman Merchant Academy.

How he and his cat, the mong hu Wisp, first met.

How he learned the Iron Rule and the enduring cost of that lesson.

It’s no small thing, breaking with custom. But when the price of ignorance is measured in lives?

Someone has to speak up.

Note: The events of this story take place between books one and two of the Freeman Universe series. (There are spoilers.)

Book one, Quite Possibly Alien, is available in print and Kindle Unlimited.

The post Quite Possibly True – Available Now appeared first on Patrick O'Sullivan.

Raised a merchant prince and heir to the family business, Seamus mac Donnacha expects to follow in his crime lord father’s footsteps, profiting from the indiscretions of saints and sinners alike. But when Seamus returns from his apprentice cruise maimed, disgraced, and branded a slaver he discovers he’s no longer needed. Disowned and tossed down the Trinity system gravity well, Seamus wants to do as his father demands. 

Crawl away and die.

Maybe he will, once he’s kept his word, and helped his friends defeat the evil spreading from star to star. He knows more about that evil than any man alive. It’s been inside him.

Seamus doesn’t want to defy his father. And he doesn’t want to war with his family. Only a dead man would dare to cross them. Only a man who deserved to pay for his sins. Crawl away and die. Seamus doesn’t know what to think about that. But he knows exactly what to say.

“Make me.”

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Raised a merchant prince and heir to the family business, Seamus mac Donnacha expects to follow in his crime lord father’s footsteps, profiting from the indiscretions of saints and sinners alike. But when Seamus returns from his apprentice cruise maimed, disgraced, and branded a slaver he discovers he’s no longer needed. Disowned and tossed down the Trinity system gravity well, Seamus wants to do as his father demands. 

Crawl away and die.

Maybe he will, once he’s kept his word, and helped his friends defeat the evil spreading from star to star. He knows more about that evil than any man alive. It’s been inside him.

Seamus doesn’t want to defy his father. And he doesn’t want to war with his family. Only a dead man would dare to cross them. Only a man who deserved to pay for his sins. Crawl away and die. Seamus doesn’t know what to think about that. But he knows exactly what to say.

“Make me.”

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Associate Engineer Macer Gant doesn’t want much from life. A brew or two, pretty girls, three square meals and an honest job working the big iron, pushing a big load, in a big sky. There’s no in-system tug bigger than Truxton’s Tractor Four Square, and no better gig than propulsion engineer. Life isn’t just good. It’s great.

Great, until a plague ship tears into Trinity space, a dead hull arrowing straight for the nic Cartaí shipyard and the thousands living and working there. Only Four Square can stop it. But the captain won’t, not just because he hates nic Cartaí, but because doing so would reveal what Four Square can really do. 

Macer must choose between hanging for failing to render aid or hanging for mutiny. Which has to be the easiest choice in the world. No way is he dangling before lighting up Four Square’s hidden monster, and without at least whispering the ageless war cry of his wrench-wielding tribe. 

Hold my beer. I got this.

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