Dark Matter is #1 in the Star Sails' series.Earth's first space ship, the good ship Pax has been sent to the Virgo Cluster to make first contact.Full of humanity's best and brightest engineers, scientist and leaders it is a peaceful mission of exploration. But something has gone terribly wrong.Captain Jack Stone and his crew have seven days, one week to get out to the Virgo Cluster and find out what happened. The site is not pretty. It's a bloodbath...

The first four stories in The Misgivings of the Vampire Lucius Lafayette series. This four pack includes the following 4 stories:Leather Apron:Leather Apron is #1 in The Misgivings of the Vampire Lucius Lafayette series.Lucius Lafayette is not your mythological vampire. He's not your pasty face, sparkly, brooding vampire. He's real and he's a werewolf killer. Werewolves are his vermin and he's the exterminator.He enjoys garl...

Caged Heart is #6 in The Misgivings of the Vampire Lucius Lafayette series.The vampire Lucius Lafayette is recovering nicely, but he is still weak and needs more quenching of blood before he can get his full strength back.He must decide what will come of his youngest son who has been banished by his wife. Will the youngest son become a prodigal son or will he have to die for attempting to kill his father?But before that determination can be made, Lu...

Death's Door is #5 in in The Misgivings of the Vampire Lucius Lafayette series.The vampire Lucius Lafayette has been shot 3 times by a member of Hell's Disciples. He's getting careless. However, he's just managed to make it back home to his mansions in New Orleans, present times.The wounds are severe and deadly, even to a vampire. A specialized vampire doctor from Austin, Texas must be rushed to New Orleans in order to save his life.But can the doct...

Dome of Bones is #10 in the Star Sails seriesHaving not made contact with intelligent life from their previous mission, Captain Jack Stone and his crew on board the SS Asterias have firm orders from Star Ship Command that seeking first contact with intelligent life must be their ongoing focus.Scot Free, the android, has determined that a binary star system called Navigon Five holds the best hope for finding intelligent aliens. Navigon Five holds five planet...

Short Memory is #3 in the Star Sails' series.After a couple of bad starts making initial contact with alien species, especially the Draken, the SS Falcon with Captain Jack Stone and his crew are heading straight back to home.Space might be the Final Frontier but it certainly isn't turning out to be the Friendly Frontier. But what about these Klethren on planet Kleth? A vacationers paradise, even for battle hardened space marines.The activities and t...

False Gods is #4 in the Star Sails' series.Jack Stone and the rest of the crew have had enough of alien races especially after losing more than half their crew. Captain Stone has ordered a direct and faster than light trip back to Earth.There will be no stopping under any circumstances. But an alien entity puts the brakes on the SS Falcon and they come to an abrupt stop right in the middle of space.They should be 45 million light years away from hom...

Earth Rise is #8 in the Star Sails' series.Faster than light flight is not going to get the crew of the SS Falcon home under 100 thousand years. But Scot Free has a genius idea. What about worm holes. There's a good chance that a worm hole will get them home quicker.They've taken one and it ended up affecting Scot Free somehow. He's become belligerent and uncooperative. It appears he's been taken over by a photonic alien race of some sort.Will this ...

Wolf's Blood is #9 in The Misgivings of the Vampire Lucius Lafayette series.After an aborted attempt at almost assassinating one of the most powerful werewolves (Adolf Hitler) that Earth has known, Lucius almost kills his son for the two attempts that Cage has taken against Lucius' life.But Cage had come to Nazi Germany to warn his father that the werewolves were plotting to ambush Lucius as they knew about his plan to assassinate Hitler. How they knew isn'...

Broken Heart is #7 in The Misgivings of the Vampire Lucius Lafayette series.Coming up with 3 million dollars is a lot of money, and it's a lot of money to come up with even for a vampire worth over 100 million dollars. But when you're Lucius Lafayette, you have friends who can help you in a pinch.Besides, this is for family. At least for the safe recovery and return of Lucius' youngest son, Cage.Cage has been unrepentant lately and acting out. But h...

Mardi Gras is #2 in in The Misgivings of the Vampire Lucius Lafayette series.Hot on the heals of Jack the Ripper, Lucius can taste the werewolf's flesh as he is called back to present times. To his home in New Orleans.Which pack of werewolves has the audacity to attack the Lafayette Killing in their very home. Nobody tries to murder Baron Lafayette's family in his own house.The Galvez pack is a notorious and dastardly violent pack of werewolves inte...

Fountain of Youth is #9 in the Star Sails seriesCaptain Jack Stone and his team have come out of neuroliptical training, relatively unscathed. In fact, they've come out alive. Their new ship is the SS Asterias and their first mission is to the Epsilon Eridani solar system.The planet Phrikes is the closest of three planets to its red giant sun. The place is hot, between 40 and 50 Celsius, and spacesuits are mandatory.This planet is Earth's first atte...