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Jason McKay and Shannon Stark, two young Republic Space Fleet Intelligence officers, are given the leadership of a new special ops unit. The mission? Guard the spoiled daughter of an important senator. Neither thought the mission would be anything more than babysitting....Until the aliens invaded the colony. Implacable, relentless, merciless - the armored creatures will slaughter anyone. Survival will be the least of their challenges, as Jason and Shannon are forced to weigh the lives of the people they lead, and the ones they love, against their duty, honor, and planet.

Earth. After the invasion. The planet is in ruins. Humankind struggles to survive. Hayden is a Sheriff in a world without law. A good man in a world gone bad. He knows the fallout of an alien attack when he sees it. He's never seen anything like this before. Isaac is a Marine in a world without order. A good man with troubles of his own. His mission was to protect the innocent, including his son. Instead, he's the only survivor.

It's nuclear war, mutants, and killer machines on a dead world that won't stop fighting. Jake Bayard didn't plan on visiting Tellus—nobody does. But when the obelisk sends him to this radiation-soaked nightmare, he's got bigger problems than dying slowly from contaminated air. Someone...

A nuclear attack in the Persian Gulf wrongly implicates Jake Bayard. Everyone seems to be hunting for him. Bayard flees to Garm, an ice-age world full of sabertooths, dire wolves, mammoths, and Neanderthals. Unfortunately, Institute Homo habilises are also there: extraterrestrial, crafty, small, and deadly hominids. They've enslaved the Neanderthals to mine for dreaded alibite.

The incident at Terra 6 proved that the Aterniens could strike at the heart of the Union, but the god king has many more tricks up his sleeve. Aterniens imposters posing as humans are spread throughout the Union, causing chaos, and generating suspicion and fear. But as Rose tackles one crisis another appears. A weapon capable of eradicating the population of entire worlds has been unleashed, and it’s his job to stop it.

Noa and Sargis may have pulled themselves away from the Undying Legion, but that does not mean the war is over. It is only the beginning. The black ships of the Legion appear on the horizon of the gateway to the Federation of Outer Planets, Eire. A small peaceful planet that is about to have the full force of both sides of the war deployed across its rolling green hills and endless sea of forests.

Staff Sergeant Akira Sakai leads his squad of battle-hardened marines into action. The mission: kill the threat and rescue the hostages. Little do they know, another enemy awaits them - one more vicious and ruthless than anything they’ve ever encountered. The region is overrun with prehistoric predators, and giant pterodactyls attack the dropship, eliminating any possibility for immediate escape. Raptors, hungry for human flesh, stalk the team and pick them off one by one. To escape, the team must trek through thick forest, sludgy marshlands, and bloodthirsty predators at every turn.

Jason McKay and Shannon Stark, two young Republic Space Fleet Intelligence officers, are given the leadership of a new special ops unit. The mission? Guard the spoiled daughter of an important senator on a tour of the colonies. Neither of them thought the mission would be anything more than babysitting...until the aliens invaded the colony. Implacable, relentless, merciless, the armored creatures slaughter everyone who gets in their way. The team is forced to go on the run with the people they’re supposed to protect.

Camp One has one brutal rule: If you attempt to escape, you die—and three random prisoners die with you. Tom Thrush has resigned himself to dying by degrees, doing forced labor while he slowly starves. When he learns that a distant mesa holds a slim chance at freedom, he does nothing. The price of escape is too high. Then fever sweeps through the camp. Surrounded by armed guards and an unforgiving jungle, paralyzed by the threat of reprisals, Tom watches as the men he’s sworn to protect die one by one. If anyone is to survive, Tom will have to do the unthinkable. Escape.

Danger stalks the Republic once again. Raiders hijack their starships, biological weapons slaughter their colonists, and terrorists kill thousands of innocents in their mega-cities...and as the head of Fleet Intelligence, it’s Jason McKay’s job to track down the enemy, whether they’re on a world at the edge of known space or in the midst of a corrupt government. McKay and his lethal second-in-command, Shannon Stark, are on a hunt for the truth, but that pursuit will end up with traitors in high places hunting them.

When Captain Josh Raven and his team of outlaws are rescued from a dying ship, they think their luck has finally turned. But luck doesn’t last long in deep space. Betrayal, blood, and the iron rule of the SARD fleet tear everything apart—leaving Raven stranded, hunted, and out for vengeance. Haunted by the ghosts of those he couldn’t save and armed with a mysterious gauntlet that opens doors between worlds, Raven must face his past, his enemies, and the darkness between realities known only as The Half-Life.

The never-ending clandestine war between the Xen Empire and the Terillian Confederation continues and the Dark Zone is littered with the bodies of Guardsmen, Rangers, and those caught in between. It is into this wasteland that a unit of the Humani Elite Guard set out on a recon mission to investigate a planet they suspect contains an illegal Terillian base. The mission quickly falls apart and Lieutenant Emily Martin is thrust into command when her base ship, Draxius, is destroyed and her commander is severely injured.

CT has one goal: to take on the most powerful planet colonization corporation in the world and bring them to their knees. The corporation wasn't worried. After all, CT was just one man with a small crew of beautiful women. They should be worried. They should be very worried.

In this humorous space opera/adventure, America shows the world how to survive after mini-atom bombs fall. Two college friends become political rivals and then enemies. Carver Butcher, an ordinary, average man, in the tradition of Philip K. Dick, develops a plan to transport people to another planet. A group of people races against a powerful organization to colonize a small, Earth-like planet. A college romance reignites. Fast-paced and nostalgic. If you enjoy the book, we would appreciate it if you could leave a review.

Some enemies just won’t die.... Return to the star-spanning human Republic of Duty, Honor, Planet as Chief of Fleet Intelligence Jason McKay and his deadly Executive Officer Shannon Stark take on another dire threat to humanity! General Antonov’s Protectorate returns to menace the Republic from without, while a possible military coup gestates within its borders. Are the two connected? Will McKay and Stark be able to put the pieces together before it’s too late?

Defeats throughout the Afari Sector have pushed the Commonwealth back, leaving only the garrison at Tobruk behind on the Novan desert planet of Kyrenaica. Surrounded on all sides, the beleaguered garrison refuses to yield, even as starfighters strafe its ports, and enemy assault walkers pound its damaged walls. Each day, the garrison holds on, giving the Commonwealth and its allies time to prepare for a counter offensive.

Five years after their world was decimated by powerful aliens that killed their parents, two brothers are returning to get answers. One wants justice. One just wants to survive. But nothing on Planet Hell is what it seems. The brothers soon stumble upon a plot to interact with the aliens that could change everything. But they aren't the only people trying to understand the aliens - and most are willing to do anything to keep the powerful secrets for themselves.

After 55 years of waiting for an answer to be invited to join the RIM Confederacy, the planet Enki has responded with an alternate idea - that the RIM Confederacy join them instead. Captain Tanner Scott is sent on the diplomatic mission to get the Enkians to reconsider. He and the Atlas crew help the new ambassador to find a way to bring the Enki into the RIM Confederacy without exposing to them the secret of why that is so important.

Die Erde - nur noch eine Legende. Die Kommunität - das letzte Refugium der Menschheit. Das Ziel - zu überleben. Nachdem Tyler Harris und seine Freunde in den Strudel der Verschwörung um die Vorherrschaft in der Kommunität gezogen wurden, müssen sie ausgerechnet dort Zuflucht suchen, wo gilt: Der Feind meines Feindes ist mein Freund! Doch dann geht eine Mission schief, und ein verwegener Plan soll nicht nur ihr Leben, sondern auch das von Millionen Menschen retten.

After a failed planetary rebellion, the rebel leader and his men are all given life sentences on Halberd, the RIM Confederacy prison planet and sent to the maximum island penitentiary - a prison that has never had a successful escape. And under his admiral's orders, Captain Tanner Scott has also been sent to do RIM Navy duty on the planet with the mission to give up his alcohol dependency. While he knows that this is what is expected of him by the admiral, he finds it more difficult to do that he'd ever imagined.