The mysterious Kull have waged war on humanity and her colonies for more than a decade. Dropping out of the void, they wrought devastation upon colonies and planets across the stars, leaving a stunned under-strength Earth fleet scrambling for answers. Captain Thomas Parks was that answer. Leading the human fleet against the alien invaders, he stopped them at Gladius 9, creating a stalemate in the war and buying humanity precious time. And as the Valkyrie 4 launched from the Navis shipyards with Parks at the helm, the ship's technological advantages promised to end the war once and for all. But the Kull haven't been idle. They have their own surprise for the human race, and while Valkyrie searches for an elusive enemy, Parks discovers that everything on his robotic ship isn't what it seems. As he searches for the alien home world in a race against time, the Valkyrie's intelligent computer reveals a secret that puts the mission and the fate of the human race in jeopardy.
I was born in Coshocton Ohio, lived briefly in Key Largo, Fla., then returned to Coshocton. I have a bachelor's in journalism from Ohio State and have worked as a writer and editor since graduating in 1992. I currently live in Avon Lake, Ohio. I've been dabbling in fiction since college, but just got serious about it in the last couple of years thanks to the explosion of e-readers and the ease of e-publishing. No publisher? No agent? No problem! My stories are ultimately about people. While a good fantasy or science fiction book needs an interesting setting, in the end, all great stories revolve around people, not places.