John Walker

Mur has kept a secret under his floorboards for fifty years. He was twelve when his best friend's mother handed him a strange box and made him promise to hide it. That evening the family drove away, their house burned down, and Cleo never came back. Mur grew up, went gray, and became the...

Ethan Cross expected second shift at Meridian Industrial to end the way it always did—oil-stained hands, clock out, go home. Then something impossible shows up behind the plant. It isn’t on any schedule. It isn’t on any radar. And it definitely isn’t human.

Able Monroe went out to the Nevada desert hunting space rocks. What his trowel strikes two meters down isn't one of them. It isn't anything he can name. And it's far too big to dig up alone. Lucky for him, his two best friends came along for the ride. Able makes one mistake. He keeps digging...

Kyle Russ signed up for Mars. He got the galaxy instead. Chosen for humanitys first attempt to colonize another world, he expects adventure, danger, and a new life. Then twenty-seven ships leave Earth, and the Explorer Program reveals its true purpose: investigate a mysterious extraterrestrial...

Three weeks ago, Ethan Cross was nobody. A factory worker from Earth who stumbled onto something impossible in the dark, made one bad decision, and woke up on the other side of the galaxy with a sentient starship bonded to his soul and a life he never could have imagined. He's been catching up...

Otis Hale signed up for one last job. He knew the mission was one-way: a colony expedition to a world at the edge of human space, where older settlers would build a foothold the young could one day inherit.

They buried the war. The empire sent lawyers. For a year, Ethan Cross has been a ghost to Earth. A fugitive's face on the news, and a string of unanswered texts on his best friend's phone. Out in the dark, he has become something else: the voice of a fleet of freed starships, bound by a promise...

When Carson Flint traded his Commonwealth military badge for the quiet life, he thought he'd left his battles behind. Two years of running a saloon called the Bulwark, a volatile hub for refugees, smugglers, and the occasional war-weary soldier, was the peace he'd been looking for. He's never...

Sam Levine knows what it means to struggle. After several missed opportunities, he's been forced to turn his talents to freelance work, picking up whatever dirty job he can find only to make ends meet. But there's an end in sight. An opportunity to change everything. And when a dangerous...

Nelson Tuckey tells the best stories in Sunningdale Psychiatric. Alien worlds. Impossible deliveries. A ship he calls The Lost Princess. Reed is just an orderly, but he listens anyway. The stories keep the old man calm. And besides, everyone knows they're not true. A space courier locked away on...

They built a network to save their lives. Now something ancient is using it to reach inside their minds. Former factory worker Ethan Cross never wanted a starship. Now he and Vesper, the sentient ship bonded to his mind, are attempting something no one has dared in a hundred thousand years...

A terrorist attack. A daring raid. Ambitious individuals hungry for power. The Crossroads are in trouble. Carson Flint and his team have settled into a quiet life in their establishment. Two newcomers arrive with lofty goals of changing the entire planet. When two members of the community go...

Aldo Cassidy, formerly a low-born freelancer, finds himself at the heart of a desperate operation to save humanity. With the threat of a seemingly mindless alien force looming at the borders of the human empire, a brave group of military personnel works to form an alliance that may give them a...

Saving the galaxy doesn't pay the bills. Able Monroe and his crew gave away the find of a lifetime. Now the Sycorax is running on fumes, gray ration goo, and a growing list of enemies. So when a job turns up on a remote desert world, they take it. Their ship is locked down the moment it lands...

Aldo Cassidy and his team are tasked with recovering an important relic from an alien station. As they arrive, they find signs of a battle, leaving the entire system in disarray. Without good intelligence, they must take a chance to secure a prize capable of unifying their cultures, or unveil...

The Lumari Collective stands on the verge of chaos. After a prominent member of their society aided a violent mob, security personnel work to undo his efforts. They turn to the humans caught in the middle, Carson Flint and Nell Brooks, outsiders who might provide an edge against the terrorists...