It's a soul-sucking job, but someone had to do it.Conman Ignatz Bauer considers himself an enterprising businessman and scrupulously avoids anything that resembles a common job. The very idea of working...

Revenge comes at a price...In the Galilean colonies of the outer solar system, water is a resource more precious than gold. When someone begins stealing it from under the noses of the Jovian Collective,...

She is forever tied to Mars in ways she can never imagine...Centuries in the future, Earth is dying and Mars struggles to survive. Governments and corporations compete for control of the one world which...

In a galaxy on the brink of war, one man stands against an empire. Fifteen years after Earth's colonies declared independence, the shadow of Terra's ambition threatens to reclaim its lost dominion. The...

The Galaxy needs its greatest hero…Unfortunately, it has Ignatz Bauer.Ignatz Bauer is a conman and a thief. He also has a stolen ship's AI living in his brain, and the intelligence likes it there; he...

The Solar System's fate rests on the shoulders of one, insignificant woman...Melanie Destin has attracted the wrong kind of attention.The Jovian Collective is looking for her. They have a job that only...

Millions will die, and it's all her fault...Mel Destin is desperate. Try as she might, a cure for the deadly nano-virus infecting Chloe Cabot remains elusive. With time running out and assassins hunting...

Mankind is doomed. Lurking at the fringes of human occupied space, a malevolent alien species prepares for an invasion that will overwhelm the unsuspecting Grand Terran Confederation. Hayden Kaine is...

His ship is lost and his crew is missing...Oberon is a world at war, torn apart by open rebellion. Hayden Kaine and his ship's human/AI hybrid, Cora, find themselves caught up in the planetary conflict...

Saturn's moon, Rhea, hides many secrets… The Vault is the most secure archive in the Solar System, or so everyone believes.  Melanie Destin desperately needs to get inside and knows someone who can help...

It is a time of peace…The quiet, before the storm…War is coming, and nobody can prevent it…Following a successful rebellion against a ruthless despot, Martians struggle to rebuild their world. On Earth,...

Mars is a nice place…when it's not trying to kill you. Most spacefarers avoid Phobos Station. It is hard to get to and the locals would rather shoot you than be helpful. Melanie Destin has agreed to a...

She is a Reluctant HeroMelanie Destin has been many things in her troubled life...a drug dealer, a doctor, a fugitive, and most recently, the savior of Mars...what she doesn't want to be is a mother.When...

Dark terrors await on the frontier of space...Hayden Kaine, a brash young cadet, thinks his family's influence has guaranteed his destiny as a future leader of the Earth Confederation. But falling on...

He only wanted to save humanity... They are coming…One last hope remains, but the cost may be too high…Human civilization is in chaos. With the collapse of the interstellar jump network the empire has...

In space, helping a stranger can get you killed, or worse…Armstrong Station is the busiest spaceport in the system where you can buy almost anything. Even a runaway slave.Doctor Melanie Destin left Earth,...

All life in the solar system is about to be wiped out…Dr. Melanie Destin thought she'd started a new life on Mars. While searching for answers to her mysterious past, she becomes embroiled in political...

Armageddon is up for Auction...Dr. Melanie Destin's life is a mess. In a desperate attempt to start over, she accepts an interplanetary salvage job that will pay her enough to rebuild a new life on Mars....

An empire has fallen...Civilization tears itself apart...But there is a way to restore it all...Ten years ago, the Malliac invasion was averted, but at the cost of humanity's interstellar transit network. Trapped...

What path will lead you to the future?What does the future hold for us? Benevolent aliens come to help us, or interstellar conflicts between warring star systems.The 14 short science fiction stories in...