*** 2017 Dragon Award Finalist for Best Military Scifi ***Heir to one of the leading "Four Horsemen" mercenary companies, Jim Cartwright is having a bad year. Having failed his high school VOWS tests, he's just learned his mother bankrupted the family company before disappearing, robbing him of his Cavalier birthright.But the Horsemen of eras past were smart—they left a legacy of equipment Jim can use to complete the next contract and resurrect the company....

Terry Clark grew up surrounded by his parent's life's work, the rescue and rehabilitation of cetaceans. Born just after first contact with the Galactic Union, he's never known a time when aliens weren't visiting Earth. At 10 years old, he had a normal life, until a visit from one of the aliens resulted in a ground-breaking discovery. The cetaceans have a developed and complex language…and it can be deciphered by the aliens' translators.When Terry's father begins using alien implant...

They came from the night sky, lighting the heavens like the promise of salvation. But they didn't bring deliverance…they brought something far, far worse. Something that turns people into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. And it's spreading.A reporter follows her story of unspeakable horror south of the border and finds it's worse than she imagined.A wounded fighter pilot finally gets his chance to return to duty but is faced with a mission that could cost him his wings, or...

The Revelations are over; the Omega War has begun.The plot by the Galactic Union's Mercenary Guild against the Four Horsemen has culminated in an invasion of Earth. Faced with an overwhelming force, the Human mercs had no choice. They've fled, leaving Sansar Enkh to go to the Mercenary Guild headquarters on Capital Planet to stand trial for humanity.On the run, Jim Cartwright and Nigel Shirazi have travelled to the Winged Hussars' secret base of New Warsaw, in an effort to ...

In Central Park, a homeless man bears witness to the arrival of a strange device, but is it a gift from the Angels of God, or a way for them to invade Earth at its most vulnerable moment?Disgraced astronomer Mindy Patoy learns of an asteroid bearing down on Earth and finds herself drawn inexplicably to New York City, where she finds friends and enemies alike as she struggles to unravel the mystery of the portal.As word spreads of alien devices appearing around the globe, sc...

The Omega War ended, not with a bang, but with a whimper.The Peacemaker-enforced ceasefire brought an end to the hostilities, but not a resolution, and now it's up to the Four Horsemen to forge a lasting peace. Alexis Cromwell, despite her pregnancy, heads off to Capital with Nigel Shirazi to obtain justice from the enigmatic Mercenary Guild Council, but when they arrive, they're quickly embroiled in galactic politics, and find out the situation is far, far worse t...

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other "Lost Soldiers" have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic.Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission...

The Omega War is in full swing. Earth has fallen to General Peepo's army, and the surviving Human mercenaries have taken refuge at the hidden Winged Hussars' base in New Warsaw.On Earth, the defensive forces fight to keep the hearts and minds of their fellow Humans, but Peepo's plans are slowly converting the people to her way of thinking, and the Mercenary Guild troops continue to root out the forces arrayed against them.Outnumbered and on the run, the situation is bleak, ...

From the outside, The Lyon's Den doesn't look like much; there isn't even a sign. But Mercs of all species know that if you head to southwest Houston, near the Starport, there's a particular run-down strip mall that looks like it's been abandoned for years. The glass door second from the south end of the strip is plastered over on the inside with blue paper, and the faint golden outline of a rampant lion is the only clue.The door is locked, of course, and beyond the door is nothing...

Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen extraordinary stories. One bestselling universe.It's the Twenty-Second Century. The galaxy has opened up to humanity as a hyperactive beehive of stargates and new technologies, and we suddenly find ourselves in a vast playground of different races, environments, and cultures. There's just one catch: we are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain.Enter the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight an...

A month has passed since the Strain Delta plague was unleashed on Earth, and most of mankind has already succumbed. All animals are carriers, all food is suspect, and nowhere is safe. Yet small groups still struggle to survive.In Texas, Vance Cartwright and his band of survivalists try to ride out the swarm of infected while Colonel Cobb Pendleton and his men fight to cross 2,000 miles of badlands to reach safety.In the Pacific, Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Tobin is a helple...

Five hundred years have passed, and Earth is but a distant memory, a story told to children. Bellatrix is humanity's home now, as well as its future.When the alien race responsible for mankind's rescue returned, humanity found that its rescue came at a price—it had to serve its alien masters to repay that act, and the Chosen were formed.Minu is the daughter of the First Among the Chosen. While she wants to follow in her father's footsteps, very few women are Chosen. When he...