A DESPERATE FIGHT…Under assault and ill-equipped, Alkalurops has come apart since the loss of its communications grid and the inability of the Republic of the Sphere to re-establish it. But in a universe of powerful players, a leader has to grab power fast if she's going to survive...Grace O'Malley's people are valiantly making a stand against Hansen's Roughriders, a band of mercenaries destroying everything in their path. Badly outnumbered, her forces need...

FOUR SOLDIERS. ONE WAR.Asteroid miner Mary Rodrigo and freighter owner Mattim Abeeb are green draftees of the Society of Humanity, forced to fight for Earth—a planet they’ve never even seen.Major Ray Longknife and his lover, Senior Pilot Rita Nuu, are career soldiers, invested with the cause of the Unity Party—and its ambitious new president.These four soldiers on opposing sides of the battle are about to discover the true nature o...

THE WAR IS OVER. THE TREATY IS SIGNED.AND ALL IS WELL IN THE GALAXY…Izzy Umboto is a hero of the conflict between the Society of Humanity and the Unity Party. Instead of retiring and living out her days quietly, she’s wrangled command of her very own warship. Unfortunately, that ship is the less-than-state-of-the-art Patton.Lieutenant Terrence Tordon, called “Trouble” by both his enemies and his friends, and even himself, is a career...

A WAR WITHINColonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Mary Rodrigo were once enemies in an interstellar war. Now they’re working together to keep the peace. But can they protect themselves from an enemy they can’t even see?When a bad space jump flings their starship thousands of light-years away from home, Longknife and Rodrigo make an amazing discovery: a planet inhabited by the descendants of a ship’s crew—lost three hundred years earlier.As acting...

One man faces his worst nightmare—twice.A thrilling new novel from the Every Man team!Ben Taylor’s just a regular guy. Married to his beautiful Annie, with good kids, and a career that brings him great joy. But the world as he knows it suddenly shifts beneath his feet. While his job is suddenly in jeopardy, Annie gets promoted into the position of a lifetime–with a bigger salary than his…and a requirement to move across the country.The blow to his ego, not ...

From the national bestselling author of the Kris Longknife series comes an all-new Jump Universe novel.Retired Colonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Terrence “Trouble” Tordon come to Savannah via different routes, but what they find is the same. One bully strongman is intent on keeping power no matter what the new rules are for peace. He’s got the population cowered by thugs, and tanks at the ready. He expects to win the coming elections handily.He doesn...

The Victory Parades are over and half the fleet is back in mothballs, but out on the rim of space, ships are vanishing. Rita Nuu Lonknife had enough of sitting home while she was pregnant. Now with an infant in arm, she wants some action. She pulls strings to get a heavy cruiser hauled out of the mothball fleet and command of it. She crews it with gals that fought with her in the Attack Transport Force . . . and four nannies for tiny Alex . . . and is ready to go find out why ships are not...

Grand Admiral Sandy Santiago is a woman with a whole lot of problems. She's ordered to take over command of the Alwa system from Kris Longknife. Can a mere human replace a Longknife! She's got alien birds. She's got alien cats. She's even got alien monsters that Kris beat but now want a rematch.Oh, and if all that wsn't enough, she's got Rita Nuu Longknife to boot. How can a gal get so lucky!

In Kris Longknife - Unrelenting, Kris's meeting with the Ostriches was covered in a single paragraph. Well, here's the full skinny. How does a woman who remembers all too well how her ancestors were relieved of their land somehow arrange a fair deal to get her production workers? Sailors and Marines not only a stake in the planet they're defending, but some place to blow off steam? How did it happen that, again, Kris gets shot at, and finally, How does Kris keep the Kicking Birds from kill...

BEAUTY AND THE BATTLEFIELDHer Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Maria Teresa Inez Smythe-Peterwald, daughter of wealth and power, was raised to do little except be attractive and marry well. Then everything changed—her brother, her father’s favorite and the heir apparent, was killed in battle by Lieutenant Kris Longknife, daughter of the Peterwald’s longtime enemies. Vicky vowed revenge, but her skill set was more suitable for seduction than assassinatio...

You knew when Kris asked for a desk job that it wasn't going to be pretty. Well, here's the bad, the worst and the ugly. Budgets! This short story started out as the opening chapters to Kris Longknife - Emissary, but hey, we all know how bad an office job is. Who wants to start off an action adventure yarn with just another day at the office? So I cut it. But, I know there are some of you out there who must have wondered if a bad Longknife day at the office was as bad as yours. Who has won...

You knew it had to happen sooner or later. Abby had a problem and she figures the only way to solve it is to bring everything to a roaring halt. It had to happen.