Tessa was desperate, and a two year contract with an Imperial Embassy looked like the way out. Helping a newly contacted species develop to a point where they're ready to deal with the universe is a years' long project, and those whose missions succeed can expect more lucrative contracts in the future as well as the knowledge they've helped an entire species survive.The Empire of Humanity is not being altruistic. It has selfish reason to want the Morelli and others to survive. But ...

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The first thing Alexan knew was standing over an impossible corpse with an ichor-stained sword.Exiled from home for reasons of politics and health, he has to orient himself in a new home, but he still has the skills he was 'born' with, skills which make him a wizard in his new homeland. A blasted, sterile cavern has many portals, but the one he chooses leads to the top of a huge tree, the source of magical power for an entire world....

A duel in the shadows as echoes of an ancient war wash up on a new planet!Life in the Empire has finally settled down. The last of the ston rebels have taken amnesty, and re-joined civilization - or have they?A massive terrorist attack kills millions and the trail leads the investigator straight to a remote world with no known Imperial contact - a world known to its inhabitants as Earth

It started innocently enough. Joe was the engineer on one of Earth's first explorations beyond the Solar System, using borrowed Imperial technology. Captured on a hostile planet, he has to make a plan for his crew to escape - and then he discovers his real mistake!He becomes a Missionary of Civilization on a primitive planet caught between massive empires - and the enemy has to think it's all native ingenuity!

Pregnancy is dangerous in the EmpireFor thousands of years, Imperial women have used artificial gestation. But Grace was born on barbarian, pre-contact Earth. She can't call herself a mother without doing it the hard way at least once.Grace has married into one of the most important families in the Empire - and Imperial politics are deadly at the top.Despite the risks, she discovers that there are advantages, both to herself and to her unborn baby.The Empire...

Beware goddesses giving gifts. Especially ones you didn't intend to ask for.Mark and Julie managed to stop the regular profaning of the goddess' ritual. But that doesn't mean everything is coming up roses. What pleased The Mother angered The Mad God. He is angry with Mark and Julie, and his acolytes are using deadly magic against them, but sorcery leaves no fingerprints, no facial recognition, and no evidence of who is responsible. Mark and Julie will do anything for a lead back to...

You'd think there'd be more for a god to do.Alexan and Petra have become Eternals - minor gods, binding themselves together in their divinity. According to most stories, that's where 'happily ever after' would start.However, there's a divine ecosystem, as red in tooth and claw as any other part of nature, competing for power and worshippers and other divine benefits. There's also the diligar deity Klikitit, who's appointed Alexan his personal enemy for having dared defend h...

The stons were dead, but that left Grace alone to try to learn to control her new abilities. When a solution presents itself, she begins learning just how far there is to go on the new journey she started. A new family, a new home, and learning to adapt to a completely different environment.But for greater challenges, she also discovers there are greater rewards - and the universe always has a greater challenge in store.

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Throwing off the Demonic Slave-Masters!Joe and his native wife Asina have spent the last twenty years helping the natives of Wimarglr Continent on Calmena throw off their overlords, both demonic and human.Now it is time to spread the rebellion to the rest of Calmena, which requires bringing the art of shipbuilding to a world that has never known a boat more advanced than a canoe.But the demons are not willing to give Calmena up easily, and a counteroffensive is on t...

For everything there is a price.Grace has married into one of the most important families of the Empire. The Scimtars are wealthy and powerful in every sense of the term. Her five children will be among the Empire's elite when they are ready, and Grace herself is not without influence or importance despite her relative youth. But Imperial politics are deadly, and the more you have, the more your rivals want what you have.There is no shelter from The Price of Power.