The death of a virtual stranger embroils a space pirate in a conspiracy. He barely knew the murdered woman. So why fight so hard now to catch her killer? And dare he trust the authorities?

A medical crisis. Ruthless pirates. A brand new senior staff. No time for the new crew to figure each other out and forge the essential bonds of cooperation and trust before they plunge into the pandemonium....

Crystal of SoulsAn ancient artifact with religious significance and perhaps even mysterious power. Religious leaders want it to unite the planet. Military leaders want it to stop a war. Their enemies...

Dog's LifeThe crew sticks together, down to the very last crewmember: the captain's dog. Now the captain's kidnapped dog, snatched by ungrateful aliens the ship aided.Next in LineA medical crisis. Ruthless...

Exploration, at the vanguard of a golden new ageA ship the size of a small planet.A century-long voyage between galaxies.A crew that will grow from five thousand to five million.A renegade group determined...

A Wrinkle in TimeArcheologist and former Earth Military Force officer Luke Parillo finds thousand-year-old wreckage all the time. But this ancient ship came from hundreds of years in the future.Hunter...

Respect is earned, not given.But so is disrespect—Dannell believes.Not everyone aboard her new ship agrees, and the crew gives its new commander a decidedly cold welcome. A brutal attack forces them to...

Modern science and weapons go up against an ancient entity who ferociously guards his solitude. He wants people to stay off his mountain. They want him to quit killing.

Technology: the best—if not the only measure—by which to judge a planet? If not, what other criteria apply? And how much weight should they carry when a new world petitions to join the interplanetary...

An ancient artifact with religious significance and perhaps even mysterious power. Religious leaders want it to unite the planet. Military leaders want it to stop a war. Their enemies want it to prevent...

The founder of the Anillan Project--the program responsible for the entire fleet from conception through construction, crewing to launch--is attending the intergalactic gathering of all three hundred...

A fire triggers an evacuation of a packed sports stadium—mere minutes before bombs go off. No injuries, but tensions on the already contentious planet soar even higher. The crew of the Earth Military...

Feline Aryn takes good care of her human. Dru had given her her wings, after all, but Aryn would have liked her anyway. Dru does her best to help people, and creates a great deal of trouble for a bunch...

Yuwellan: living jewels, beautiful beings comprising every shade of blue. As tiny as a few centimeters to as huge as thirty meters in diameter. They invite a human colleague to share in their people's...

A nursery full of cute little babies. Cute little vacuum-dwelling metal-eating babies, ravenous and eager to devour the starship that discovered them among the asteroids they call home.

Restore the family name by stealing back what was stolen from them. Sounds easy. Then she meets someone who might or might not go after the same target.

The crew sticks together, down to the very last crewmember: the captain's dog. Now the captain's kidnapped dog, snatched by ungrateful aliens the ship aided.

Thieves take advantage of a careless captain and highjack his cargo of precious gems. His friends chase after it, trying to recover it before anyone else learns of the theft—and before the thieves sell...

The lovely uninhabited planet made the perfect choice for colonization. So who brutally murdered the surveyors there ahead of the settlers?

Evacuating a dozen scientist before catastrophe strikes: no problem. Preventing the moon-sized asteroid from slamming into a planet teeming with life: huge problem. And the researchers there expect a...

A captain willing to take any steps to protect his homeworld. A doctor who believes innocent offworlders deserve protection as well. The two men: not just close friends, but shipmates as well. Can either...

Individuality versus the common good, an eternal struggle. But what of love of family when the "common good" claims the right to tear a child from his parents?

One young commander on a remote interstellar base stands between Earth and all-out invasion. She fights to keep the aliens at bay, even if it costs her her life.

Sacrifice. A stealth ship on a mission deep in enemy space. Their assignment: knock out the planetary defenses of a vital munitions factory so Earth's fleet can swoop in and destroy it. But at what price?...

Archeologist and former Earth Military Force officer Luke Parillo finds thousand-year-old wreckage all the time. But this ancient ship came from hundreds of years in the future

Seven generations of women. Seven generations of soldiers. With the youngest about to graduate from the academy, her grandmother and great-great-grandmother strive to make it to the ceremony on time.

Comrades in arms Meg Nichols and Allie Oshikawa just want to enjoy the concert during their brief leave on Jupiter's moon. Some local rabble, though, mistakes the soldiers for easy targets.

Captain of her own ship and daughter of the Queen of the Fleet, Danell never ran into an enemy she couldn't chase away or elude. Until now.

Personality? Or programming? An entire planet comes to life—and decides to evict the humans living on it.

A group of people flees, wanting only solitude to avoid any and all threats to their pacifism. When another starship discovers their hiding place, their secrecy clashes with the other crew's wish to leave.