Something has gone terribly wrong in transit.
Pioneers looking for a new start were selected to escape a dying earth, and travel to a far off colony in cryogenic sleep, but something has gone wrong.
After the crash landing on a remote planet nearly kills the crew, Adam the pilot must work to save the survivors, among them Tricia the only woman he has ever cared for. Searching the sand-covered planet, it becomes clear that they are far from safe.
If the burning sun, scouring storms or violent inhabitants hunting them does not finish the dwindling group, the luring call of an unknown voice promises them safety. With each step mysterious forces follow at the periphery urging their demise.
The true danger may be their own human nature as supplies dwindle, and exhaustion sets in.
Will they overcome their baser instincts and survive ... or succumb to them and perish?

Edited October 2016

“But what are we without dreams?”

Book 2 of The Seekers series continues the story started in the critically-acclaimed, multiple award-winning The Children of Darkness.

[Dystopian, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Religion]

Against all odds, Orah and Nathaniel have found the keep and revealed the truth about the darkness, initiating what they hoped would be a new age of enlightenment. But the people were more set in their ways than anticipated, and a faction of vicars whispered in their ears, urging a return to traditional ways.

Desperate to keep their movement alive, Orah and Nathaniel cross the ocean to seek the living descendants of the keepmasters’ kin. Those they find on the distant shore are both more and less advanced than expected.

The seekers become caught between the two sides, and face the challenge of bringing them together to make a better world. The prize: a chance to bring home miracles and a more promising future for their people. But if they fail this time, they risk not a stoning but losing themselves in the twilight of a never-ending dream.

A tribe under threat.
The Lawgiver out for revenge.

As we approach the third millennium CE, we find the human race forced to live below the surface of the earth in order to escape the portal of extinction. With their greed and avarice, they have devastated the once benevolent Earth mother, brought her to the brink of destruction. Now, they live underground in tribes that must constantly fight for their right to survive. Fight others. Fight The Lawgiver. Fight the Natrik. This is the chronicle of the Zetite tribe, inhabitants of Tunnel X19, told by their valiant leader, Rohan, as they fight for their survival in a damp subterranean world over three hundred feet below the surface of the Earth.

Argus Wade was born into the Ministry, an archaic and barbaric religion that's taken ahold of the Republic. He knew from an early age that he was different from the other students who learned there: the threat of death - or worse - loomed over him because of his special gifts.

When he tries to protect his daughter from this fate by hiding her from the Ministry, he finds out that all he's managed to do is make things worse. He's running out of options and growing more desperate by the day.

Meanwhile, the galaxy is facing a new conflict in the outer reaches: a rebellion is forming to tear down the Republic, led by a charismatic upstart named Darius Gray. Battle lines are being drawn and everyone is choosing sides. But, they are all going to find out that the cost of war is higher than anyone could have anticipated...

Martin Rigsby is a long-time Federation navy captain of an outdated star carrier looking forward to retirement when he receives a distress signal from a human planet near the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. He finds a planet in ruins, under assault from an ancient enemy of mankind, the Krai’kesh. He must use every trick in the book to try to contain the emergence of this new enemy and prevent the utter destruction of humanity.

Emergence is the first in a new science fiction series set in the Saga of the Seven Stars fantasy universe. It is a science fantasy/space opera book featuring high technology, fighter pilots, marines and intelligence officers, along with manipulation of matter and energy, gravity and so much more.

Buy Emergence now to journey beyond Earth to the far side of our galaxy.

INFECTION - POSSESSION - GENERATION

What if the alien who wants to kill you looks exactly like a friend?

Chief Security Officer Jas Harrington must protect her starship’s crew from hostile aliens. For the efficient if quick-tempered Jas, that hasn’t been too hard up till now. But the captain is drug-addled, and he’s hungry for the bonuses he gets from finding valuable resources on new worlds.

When the captain won’t listen to Jas’ fears about a mysterious planet, he is compromised by contact with a strange life form. A life form that threatens to take over the entire ship and return to Earth, where it can spread its deadly infection.

Now Jas is in a race against time, fighting to quarantine the alien infection and prevent the aliens from achieving their goal: Generation. She doesn't realize it yet, but as she fights to save her crew, the future of all humanity hangs in the balance.

Generation is book one in the Shadows of the Void space opera serial.

One horrifying day will change the life of sixteen-year-old Shane Tucker and every other kid in the world.

In a span of mere hours, the entire adult population is decimated, leaving their children behind to fend for themselves and deal with the horrific aftermath of the freak occurrence. As one of the newly made elders in his small town, Shane finds himself taking on the role of caretaker for a large group of juvenile survivors. One who just happens to be Kelly Douglas—an out-of-his-league classmate—who, on any other day, would have never given Shane a second glance.

Together, they begin their quest to find out why all of the adults were slaughtered. What they find is even more horrifying than anything they could have expected—the annihilation of the adults was only the beginning. Shane and his friends are not the unlucky survivors left to inherit this new, messed-up planet. No, they are its next victims. There is an unknown power out there, and it won’t stop until every person in the world is dead.

A spine-tingling adventure that will have you gasping for breath all the way until the last page, The Last Orphans is the first book in an all-new apocalyptic series.

This general has more to fight for than he ever imagined...

As one of the few warriors to ever defeat the Fearless, Brion General Braen is a living legend. Yet when his greatest victory turns to his gravest defeat, the undefeated warrior has to prove himself to the universe... and himself. If matters weren't complicated enough, his fated, his gesha, appears to him right in the middle of it all. Now, losing is not an option.

Naima is a scientist through and through. She's seen how love can ruin a life and she wants no part of it. So when she gets pregnant by a man who only deals in absolutes while an ancient unkillable evil wishes to conquer the galaxy, she finds herself between a... well, a monster and a hard general.

With everyone's lives in her hands, but most of all her own, her child's and the man's who she can't make up her mind about, what does the scientist trust? Her heart or her mind?

Alien General's Baby is a Brion Brides series scifi romance book that can and should be read as a standalone. It features a brave interracial BBW heroine, a general who doesn't comprehend the meaning of backing down, a surprise pregnancy... and of course a monster that defies definition. Grab this 110 k long novel and be prepared to go on a wild, steamy ride in the stars!

Meet a man called Rat…

When a storm sends Rat’s airship off course, he lands smack dab in the middle of a group of dimwitted kidnappers. With the help of his two best friends, a nine-hundred-year-old robot and a droid who always believes they’re on the verge of dying, Rat escapes the kidnappers’ clutches before rescuing the women being held against their will.

While the rescue should have been the end of the story, Rat soon discovers the women are hiding something from him. When he uncovers their secret, it turns his life upside down and sets the entire world on a different course.

One Soldier... Six Civilians... A desperate mission to destroy the A.I.

Five years of fighting against the machine army of D.A.N.A, has left Apollo craving peace... and maybe a small hope of redemption. It won't come easy. Officially, Apollo is one of the finest soldiers the Elite Special Forces unit has in its command. Unofficially... he's suspended.

When the council offers him the chance to lead an infiltration unit against D.A.N.A, Apollo realizes that this death trap of a mission might just cost him more than he's prepared to pay. This last ditch effort could end the war... but how much can he possibly accomplish with a unit of untrained civilians against the war machines of D.A.N.A.

Time is working against them; the machines have already implemented an assault that humanity will not survive. Will Apollo be forced to give up everything for the sake of humanity? Or is there more to his team than meets the eye?

Authors Note: Apocalypse AI contains adult language and situations. Reader discretion is advised.

When the aliens invade, the trainees aboard the USTS Empire have no backup, no hope…and no other option but to fight…

Hayden Key is on his final training mission: two weeks wartime simulation aboard the venerable USTS Empire with his fellow recruits. The last step before starting a career as an officer in the Space Fleet. Hopefully the first step in learning something about his father’s scarcely mentioned military history.

When Captain Joshua Ivan, disgraced war hero and practically a relic like the ship he commands, discovers the president’s son is one of the new recruits, a dark secret from his past threatens to expose itself.

But it’s no longer a simulation when Earth’s long-time enemy invades.

The attacking aliens think nothing of one stranded old warship occupied by a has-been officer and an untrained lot of cadets. Captain Ivan helped defeat this force forty years ago, but now they have penetrated Earth’s defenses and threaten humanity’s extinction.

Captain Ivan, Hayden Key, and the group of trainees have to get back to Earth to help thwart the aliens forces and save their loved ones. But they soon realize that they have no backup, no hope…and no other option but to fight…

This new series from #1 Bestselling Author Logan Rutherford is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat with characters you won't forget, and twists you won't see coming. Pick up your copy and join the Empire today!

Change, they say, is inevitable but if you're a time-traveler, change can be catastrophic.

Sean Kelly is thrilled when his multiple-great grandson gives him the opportunity to hang out with his own teenage dad and his 'far out' friends in 1969. (Although the sleepy town of Mercer, Iowa is a far cry from Haight-Ashbury.)

The local 'oldsters' aren't 'hip' to the younger generation's long hair and wild music, especially the town cop, causing Sean to experience some unexpected culture clash.

Time Travel rules get tested when Sean develops feelings for his dad's 'groovy' gal-pal, and he faces a life-or-death decision that could have huge repercussions when he returns to 1995.

Will Sean's ever-logical descendant regret bringing him into Jonathan Kelly's wannabe flower-child world, or will Peace, Love, and Understanding prevail in the end?

The soul of humanity can not be ignored.

Fenesia Thornbark lives a privileged life because she belongs to a group of people called Purestkind, considered by an autocratic society to be the purest and highest form of humanity. However, her life is shattered with one fetal mistake, but allows her to see her world for what it really is: truths become lies. Lies turns to hate. And hate to an uprising and death.
When the Purest, an autocratic government, embarks on subjecting groups of people to unspeakable horrors because they see them as lesser people, the unexpected happens: some of their own kind turns against them.
Fenesia and the rest of her family are marked as traitors. The Purest kills her parents. Destroy her home. Bound her in chains. But...in spite of it all, they fail to break her. And now she'll make them beg for death.

A freak landslide at a remote mine site uncovers a strange machine to Barry’s group of paleontology students. Wary of corrupt school officials, his team takes the machine home to study it in secret, reaching only one realistic - and unbelievable - conclusion: It was designed to bridge the time-space continuum. It’s a time machine.

Testing delivers disastrous results, sending one team member to the hospital and nearly killing another. When word leaks about the discovery, the ultimate power struggle ensues: the university wants it for funding, the power company wants its energy regenerating abilities kept under wraps, and a rival group wants to steal it for themselves. No one cares if Barry's team comes out alive.

Fleeing for their lives, the students must fight the school, the police, and each other if they want to learn the truth about what they've discovered - a truth with more severe consequences than any of them can predict.

The homecoming was short lived. Some might conclude that four ships, three women and an unruly teenage daughter would constitute a happy ending. But dangerous forces still move in circles around Benjamin, his family and friends. Word had arrived foretelling the prospects for peace and a first job for the fledgling Reaper Inc. Family in tow, locked and loaded, they leave for parts unknown to aid in securing peace and safety for the people of the Colonial Alliance. But when someone is out to kill you or eat you, making it there alive might be all you could hope for.

The first three books of Jay Allan's Crimson Worlds series (over 800,000 books sold), in one discounted collection...

Marines (Crimson Worlds I)

Erik Cain joined the marines to get off death row. The deal was simple; enlist to fight in space and he would be pardoned for all his crimes.

In the 23rd Century, assault troops go to war wearing AI-assisted, nuclear-powered armor, but it is still men and blood that win battles. From one brutal campaign to the next, Erik and his comrades fight an increasingly desperate war over the resource rich colony worlds that have become vital to the economies of Earth's exhausted and despotic Superpowers.

As Erik rises through the ranks he finally finds a home, first with the marines who fight at his side and later among the colonists - men and women who have dared to leave everything behind to build a new society on the frontier, one where the freedoms and rights lost long ago on Earth are preserved.

Amidst the blood and death and sacrifice, Erik begins to wonder. Is he fighting the right war? Who is the real enemy?

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The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II)

The Third Frontier War is raging, and all across human-occupied space worlds are burning. Massive battlefleets struggle for dominance and kilometer-long war ships exchange thermonuclear barrages.

Battered in the early years of the war, the Western Alliance is resurgent. The brilliant Admiral Augustus Garret leads the Alliance fleet from victory to victory, taking the war to the very heart of the enemy empires. And on the ground, Colonel Erik Cain, hero of the Marine Corps, leads his crack troops again into combat, seeking the final battle.

In the background, the secretive intelligence agencies of the despotic Superpowers plot and scheme, using their own soldiers as pawns in the great game for control of space. But the final battle will be fought in the reddish sands of a backwater world, and the prize will be the staggering secret that has lain hidden in a remote cave for untold centuries.

All the Powers struggle for the ultimate victory, but at what cost?

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A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III)

Crimson Worlds Book III The Third Frontier War is over, and the Western Alliance is triumphant. All across human-occupied space, colony worlds celebrate the coming of peace.

But peace is an elusive dream, and more trouble is brewing. The war was expensive, and the economies of the Superpowers, always fragile, are on the verge of total collapse.

The Directorate, the shadowy intelligence organization that has become the true power behind the Alliance government, plans to strip the colonies bare to pay the costs of war. Already, they are tightening their control over the freewheeling colonial governments. And the Marine Corps faces total destruction at the hands of the worst traitor in its history.

But the colonists are a different breed than the passive mob on Earth, and they have no intention of meekly surrendering their hard won freedoms. On worlds all across the frontier, plans are hatched and weapons hoarded. And in taverns and meeting halls the words of an ancient text are uttered in hushed tones. A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing.

The starship New Horizon is Earth's first attempt at an FTL capable spaceship. But others don't want the mission to succeed. The mission goes suddenly and horribly wrong with the possibility of inadvertently leading the Hocklyns to Earth decades in advance of their estimated arrival time. Can the cadets on the New Horizon stop the deadly plot before it's too late?

The Federation survivors on Ceres have built a new warship. It’s the most powerful ship they have ever built. Its mission is simple. Return to the old Federation worlds, search for survivors, and find out how far the Hocklyn Slave Empire has spread. The whole key to their mission is secrecy, but the disastrous events on the New Horizon may jeopardize everything.

A discovery that will change everything . . .
Excitement is high when the crew of the International Space Station discovers a mysterious object in orbit around Earth. But something goes wrong, and contact with the station is lost. When journalist Sean Jacob gets wind of the situation, he embarks on a journey to reveal the truth, winding his way into the biggest conspiracy to ever face mankind.

. . . but are we ready for it?
As Sean investigates, what he finds is scarcely believable, and he begins to doubt his decision to get involved. But when an informant dies in suspicious circumstances, he is left with no other choice than to dig deeper. With the help of people he's not sure he can trust, against an enemy with seemingly unstoppable power, Sean takes the fight right to its heart. What he finds there is the last thing he ever expected . . .

Here's what people are saying about Vessel:

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A Multi-Author Anthology of Short Stories! Nineteen stories and hundreds of pages of apocalyptic fiction. This is Volume 6. Look for other books in series for more great reading!

When the world falls apart, when civilization collapses, when life as we know it ends, our greatest terrors becomes real. Perhaps it's nuclear war with its poisonous radiation, hideous plagues or chemical contamination, rogue artificial intelligences controlling killer robots, or zombies that turn our friends and neighbors into inhuman monsters. What can the common man or woman do in the face of apocalyptic fears?

The Apocalyptic Fears Series gives you collections of bestselling, award-winning or just plain exciting stories by some of the best independent authors of today.

Accolades for Exodus:

"Wow! I was truly impressed by this book. I love when science fiction writers combine science, politics and psychology. For me the mix was just right"

"This book is science fiction in great form. It doesn't just make you think about the future, it really makes you think about the world around you today"

When mankind faces extinction, how can anyone survive?

In 2072, Earth faces the ultimate extinction event. In an America turned authoritarian, a race against time begins. To send a starship to a distant planet, where the remains of humanity can survive. Only a small number will be chosen for this final endeavor to save mankind from extinction, and among the contenders only the most resourceful will have a chance.

But while the government wants to choose loyal subjects in order to create another version of the society they have engineered, there are those who secretly conspire to let the starfarers choose their own destiny, free from the bonds of their mother world.

As mankind on Earth faces its final blow, the selected few set course for Aurora, more than 40 light years away!

Follow Tina Hammer, scramjet pilot and officer, Kenneth Taylor, Harvard professor and alienated by the nation he once held so dear, Maria Solis, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, a girl who would never have been chosen, except for her dad's money, on their various paths toward the greatest adventure in human history.

"A race through the end of the Earth - excellent SF"

"Very well written and reads fast and easy in the style of other great sci fi writers such as Randolph Lalonde and Jack Campbell"