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Jace Hughes is a Renegade. That means taking almost any job that comes his way, no matter the situation. So long as he can keep his ship floating, he's free to live the life he wants. But that all changes when he meets Abigail Pryar, a nun looking for safe passage out of the system. Too bad there's something off about the cargo she's carrying. Jace knows he shouldn't ask too many questions, but when strange sounds start coming from inside the large, metal box, he can't help but check it out. Big mistake. To make matters worse, he's being pursued by unknown ships—who want that cargo.

Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.

Charles Dickens meets Firefly in this tale of an orphan destined for the stars. Steampunk with a twist! Enter a fantastical world filled with alien spacecraft and Victorian sensibilities, ball gowns and travel to the stars - where a pickpocket with a particular gift yearns for the stars.

Renegade Star: Publisher's Pack 4 contains books seven and eight of the Renegade Star series. In Renegade Dawn, Captain Jace Hughes and his crew have finally reached their destination: Earth. It was said to harbor great wonders, fertile land, and beauty beyond comparison, but the reality is far stranger than any story. In Renegade Children, shortly after Captain Jace Hughes and his team recover hundreds of surviving Eternal refugees, disaster strikes. A recently unearthed fauna dome, one of many biological arks on Earth, is destroyed and several people are killed.

Renegade Star: Publisher's Pack 5 contains books nine and 10 of the Renegade Star series. After waking up on the floor of an unknown ship, and with no way of contacting his crew, Captain Jace Hughes is forced to fight his way through a myriad of soldiers. With no memory of the battle or how he arrived on the ship, he has no choice but to act. By shooting his way out.

London 1925: after a grisly discovery in a ladies' rooming house, ex-boxer Harry Stubbs finds himself on a mission that takes him from the lowest dives to high society, searching for occult mysteries buried in the Horniman Musem, wrestling with enigmas - and bare-knuckle battling with deadly opponents. An insidious alien is at large, the time to stop it is running out - and that may not even be the worst of Harry's problems.

Abigail and Clementine were just a couple of orphans looking for a home. But when the two girls witness something terrible, they have no choice but to leave their orphanage and go into hiding. The only person willing to take them in is a man named Mulberry, but his home isn't the safest place for two innocent children.

Jace Hughes jest Renegatem. Oznacza to, że przyjmuje każde zlecenie, jakie wpada mu w ręce, bez względu na sytuację. Dopóki więc jest w stanie utrzymywać swój statek, może żyć tak, jak chce. Wszystko się jednak zmienia, kiedy poznaje Abigail Pryar, mniszkę pragnącą wydostać się bezpiecznie z układu. Wkrótce okazuje się, że z ładunkiem, który zabrała na pokład, coś jest nie tak. Jace wie, że nie powinien zadawać zbyt wielu pytań, jednak kiedy z dużej, metalowej skrzyni zaczynają dobiegać dziwne odgłosy, nie może się powstrzymać, aby nie sprawdzić co się w niej kryje.

The Xortaag fleet outnumbers the humans five to one, and with their mind-control device, they are able to turn Earth's military forces against their own people. The Xortaag colony ships are just weeks away, and once they arrive, they plan to eradicate the human race to make room for their own population.

Bounty hunter Duke LaGrange has seemingly retired on the primitive world of Neprius. His former sidekick, Ishiro’shea, has hung up his katana and is now the proud owner of the galaxy’s loudest bar, Cyborg Joe’s Grill N’ Go and The Why Not Saloon on the planet Kelt. But when a mysterious entity visits Duke and warns him of a great danger set to destroy Earth, he must decide if he will get the gang back together for one last mission.

It all begins on one of the worst days of Lily's life. She just lost the London leg of the 1823 Airship Grand Prix. To top it off, a harlequin fleeing from constables shoved a kaleidoscope down her pants, told her to fly to Venice, then threw himself from her airship tower. What's a girl to do? For Lily, the answer is easy: Drink absinthe and smoke opium.

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time is an unconventional and breath-taking tour de force that flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres. The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal pages from across two millennia, much of it held together by the pithy comments of a certain elderly beekeeper residing in Sussex, England. While comparatively few, these notes are nonetheless the essential marble skeleton on which the whole denouement and structure of the book hangs.