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July 20, 2039. Seventy years to the day after humanity first walked on the Moon, Commander Corbin "Ben" Dallas and his Vanguard team were supposed to make history as our first pioneers on Mars. Instead, they trigger an ancient artifact that violently catapults them into the unknown. Lost in the ruins of an alien transit network, the human operators find themselves in the crosshairs of an apocalyptic interstellar war. Stripped of their support and outgunned by an unfathomable enemy, the team must rely on their tactical training and whatever they can scavenge to stay alive.

Darius Drake is desperate to save his daughter, Cassandra. So desperate he's willing to risk their lives in cryo-sleep to give her a future. But the dark, freezing vault where he wakes up is nothing like the luxurious Florida hospital he remembers. Everything about this place is alien to him, even the language. Little does he know how alien it really is. Darius and his daughter go exploring their new surroundings with a few others from the cryo pods, and they soon discover frozen, mutilated bodies everywhere.

Defy the inevitable. Such is the stance of Confederation captain Eric Weston and the crew of the starship Odysseus, patrolling the outer limits of Priminae space, anticipating the Empire's next attacks. Connected with the Terran FTL tech—the transition drive—humanity might stand a chance against the overwhelming forces. Until the entire planetary system goes dark. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Odysseus arrives to find the Empire securing critical intelligence from Priminae ships.

In the year 2294, Dharma Raghav, Prime Minister of the New India Federation of Planets is a broken man carrying the ghosts of a war he cannot forget. Thirty years ago, on a planet called Lanka, he battled demon hordes and lost the only woman he ever loved. Now, a cryptic message from that cloaked planet rips open old wounds—and promises answers he cannot ignore. Dharma abandons his throne of power and, with his brother Loki, boards the galaxy’s first sentient starship: Maya 1. But Maya is not just a vessel—she is alive. She dreams. She hungers.

Adversity shows who you really are. For Max Tyco, nothing has been the same since he was taken from Earth and introduced to the Rowki. Chosen for his depth of potential, a new twist has changed everything. Max's weapon—the sardonium he can control with his mind—has turned a shade of red designated for only the fiercest of warriors. Unsure how to control this newfound power driven from a place of rage, Max must seek the only living warrior to experience this before.

Something changed that night of the Shift Event, and it's only growing stronger. Karin Makos’ powers are in flux. Ever since she thwarted the Shift Event on Nova, a second power has awakened inside her - and it’s not about to be ignored. But she has other worries. A hot new lead on The Eurynome Project has them en route to Earth, guns blazing. When they get there, they find more than they ever could have dreamed. Experience the penultimate book in this thrilling space opera series today!

Enemy activity had fallen into an eerie calm, but everyone felt the coming storm - a terrible storm, poised to unleash its fury upon the galaxy. It seemed as though the entire universe was holding its breath. Waiting. Whether waiting for the salvation of mankind or its demise was yet unclear.

La colonie, dernier vestige de l'humanité échoué sur la planète Eden, tente de se reconstruire après sa guerre civile, mais les dégâts matériels sont conséquents. Par ailleurs, un conflit avec les tribus primitives voisines semble de plus en plus inévitable. Alors que militaires et politiciens opposent deux visions, l’une pacifiste et l’autre belliqueuse, les scientifiques, devenus archéologues sur cette exoplanète, se concentrent eux sur le passé d’Eden, qui leur réserve encore de nombreuses surprises.

After declaring his independence from the corrupt Constellation, rebel General Adolphus knows the crackdown is coming. Now he needs to pull together the struggling Hellhole colony, the ever-expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. Even then, he doubts his desperate measures will be enough. Diadem Michella Duchenet has collected a huge space fleet led by Commodore Escobar Hallholme, son of the hero who originally defeated Adolphus.

Millennia ago, the warmongering Nukari eradicated the ancient, space-exploring D'mar. Not even the greatest of their warriors, D'mok, gifted with super-human abilities, could stop the total annihilation of his people. Now, the fledgling human Coalition lies in the Nukari's sights. The first attack left a space station destroyed and one man, Rhysus Mencari, the sole survivor. But in that man awakened D'mok-like powers, sparking the revival of the only force that could oppose this powerful enemy. Still distraught over the loss of his family, Mencari teams up with Osuto, the last known D'mar alive. Can Mencari overcome the shadow of his past in time to master his new found abilities, gather a new team of D'mok warriors, and hunt down the Nukari before the next onslaught? This is the first book of The Invasion Trilogy, the beginning of the D'mok Revival series of novels by Michael Zummo.

The ghosts of Sol-86 never stopped learning. A year after the rebellion that rewrote reality, the academy stands rebuilt—sleek, silent, and under the command of Quartus Systems, humanity’s most powerful and dangerous corporation.

Kia has joined Lord Rial’s elite guard and is collecting secrets. Secrets that can get her killed. The pretense of being Rial's consort offers some protection, but neither of them trusts the other. When the chance for retribution on her father's betrayers comes, she takes it. But there is a price to pay. Her feelings toward Rial change, and Kia is shocked when she discovers the emperor’s schemes include experiments on his son. If her ambition to destroy the emperor is to succeed, she must rescue Rial.

Unlike her half sister Hannah was raised in luxury as the daughter of a multi billionaire industrialist. Genetically designed to be flawless, she is rich, beautiful and spoiled rotten. The most popular girl in school she is also an unrepentant bully who stamps her authority on everyone around her. She has expensive luxury cars, chauffer driven limousines and the captain of the football team as a boyfriend. She has the life most of us can only dream of and stands to inherit her mother's corporate empire.

The Bahiri are real and Nova has found them hidden away on an invisible planet. With their help, she’s finally ready to accept what she is: a Nero. She has to train, to learn how to use her abilities, and she’s got years’ worth of catching up to do. Desperate, she’ll push herself - possibly beyond her limits. But learning how to use her abilities not only awakens her capability to control Neron, but her power to see the future. Going to sleep is a nightmare and heaven, all in the same breath.