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Stranded light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and his crew are on a desperate mission to discover the Lankies’ secrets. They can’t let what they’ve found die with them.
Nine hundred light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and the crew of NACS Washington are marooned in a sunless system with limited water, reactor fuel, and food. The last hope for survival is to go where nothing human has gone before.
After embarking on a scouting mission to the only moon with surface signs of life, Andrew and his special tactics team make two startling discoveries. One is a dream: a form of protein and plant life that could save the starving humans in the rogue system. The second is a nightmare: this harvested rock is infested with Lankies. Far from the seemingly mindless aggressors Andrew has battled for years, these show a terrifying awareness, and they have surprising secrets of their own hidden away in the darkness.
When the Lankies sense an uninvited presence in their world, Andrew’s operation becomes an expedition to hell. The odds against his small crew are stacked high. Of all the mysteries of space, how to escape with their lives is the greatest unknown of all.

Tow truck driver Jack Robinson thought he struck gold when he bought a derelict spaceship movie prop at a scrapyard. Then one touch of the controls brought the spaceship to life.
Jack realizes he’s gotten the deal of a lifetime, and he takes to the stars as a freelance adventurer, encountering a myriad of species and technologies that boggle the mind.
But life as a freelancer isn’t easy… or safe. Adventurers like Jack make enemies as fast as they make allies, and his ship is going to need a lot of upgrades have a chance at navigating the treacherous waters of galactic politics.

A new threat on the horizon...
A faraway world to explore...
A new technology to employ...
An opportunity that can’t be ignored...
The Free Ship Aurora has taken on a new responsibility; To protect even those who do not ask to be protected. But to do so, they will have to take an ambitious, against incredible odds.

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 contract that comes up: collect a bounty on one of the most ruthless killers in the Pirate Worlds, a place crawling with thieves, cutthroats and con artists whose primary language is violence. Jack must abandon his nice guy persona, or exploit it, if he is to survive.
What could possibly go wrong?

When the criminals come after All Guns Blazing, the Federation teeters on the brink of war.
Magistrate Rivka Anoa and her team are ordered to get to the bottom of what’s plaguing businesses across the Federation.
Getting supplies and turning those into a product that can be sold is the foundation of every business. When those basics devolve, it throws the system into disarray.
A new mob with a new life, sending legitimate businesses into turmoil.
Or is it?
Rivka has to get to the bottom of it and quickly. Terry Henry Walton and his werewolf wife Charumati join Wyatt Earp’s crew to create a little turmoil of their own as they seek to find those responsible and put an end to ... the crime spree.

Security Lieutenant Dave is looking forward to some simple cases and patching things up with his wife. His handling of a terrorist attack has gained him acclaim and some new friends in high places, but he is still closely involved with Arancha Station's mob boss.
When the space station manager is killed in a new and worrying way, Dave realises that he's got possibly the biggest case of his career. Unfortunately, as soon as his new boss arrives with reinforcements, he is relegated to monitoring data and assigned a rookie partner to babysit.
Dave needs to find something that will crack the case open before the killer can strike again.

An Alliance prison is no place for a deaf teen girl — but Starla doesn't intend to stick around for long.
"Have you been treated well here?"
Starla's hands come up short — she was going to sign something rude, but she’s cuffed to the table. If these Alliance clowns want answers, they're going to have to uncuff her to let her talk.
Because they seem to want to ask her plenty: What was her childhood like on Silk Station? Does she understand her parents are wanted? What does she know about OIC terrorists?
But Starla's not saying a thing until she gets an answer to her own question:
What happened to my parents?