Michael First was eighteen years old when he graduated from MIT with a master's degree in computer science and programming, with honors. He had promised his mother he would do so before she died, losing a long battle with cancer. He fulfilled his promise, and she died weeks after his graduation ceremony. Michael blamed his father for her death. People who were able to penetrate his isolation bubble thought he might have Aspergers Syndrome, but those close to him knew he was incredibly bril...

On the fringe of the Milky Way, a great sun anchors fifteen planets on varying orbits. All but the fifth planet are lifeless and have few distinguishable characteristics. The fifth planet, however, stands forth among all others as a sparkling jewel lying upon the black velvet inter-space of the universe. Hues of blues, shades of green and brown are painted across the equatorial belt, while wisps of white and gray clouds wind and feather over the orb. Three whitish-gray moons whirl about th...

Redemption: 108,000 word high action story of a young Marine’s return home with the effects of heated action and the devastation he endured etched onto his conscience. Before PTSD became a household word, and now treated like a physical injury, veterans returned home to fend for themselves. Imagine you are the All-American boy: Accomplished and awarded high school athlete, a great student, wonderful son, loyal friend. Imagine following your father’s example and joining the Marines, then sp...

On the fringe of the Milky Way, a great sun anchors fifteen planets on varying orbits. All but the fifth planet are lifeless and have few distinguishable characteristics. The fifth planet, however, stands forth among all others as a sparkling jewel lying upon the black velvet inter-space of the universe. Hues of blues, shades of green and brown are painted across the equatorial belt, while wisps of white and gray clouds wind and feather over the orb. Three whitish-gray moons whirl about th...

Lieutenant Commander Ashton “Ash” Haze has always embraced two things in his life: adventure and women, but when he awakens on an alien planet, there’s no time for anything other than survival – or so he thinks.Kella Ta’Qui is a Turbinta – a guild that discards their genetic identities in favor of what they train to become: assassins. Her first mission is to find and kill whatever was inside the unusual capsule that landed on Tesla Terra, but predator becomes prey when she is wound...

Just in time for the milestone 50th Anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series, an epic new trilogy that stretches from the earliest voyages of the Starship Enterprise to Captain Kirk’s historic five-year-mission—and from one universe to another!A debt of honor: One brave woman ventures alone into a parallel universe to save her old shipmates, exiled there decades earlier by a mysterious device called the Transfer Key. She soon learns the alter...

The New York Times–bestselling author’s military sci-fi saga continues as the fate a remote planet decides the future of the Confederacy.Second Lt. Antonio Santana was considered a hero—until he refused an order to fire on unarmed civilians. Now stripped of his rank, he’s been posted to the isolated planet of LaNor. Since its discovery, LaNor has attracted attention from all corners of the still-precarious Confederacy of Sentient Beings—all with an eye to ...

For fans of Release Me comes an emotionally intense eBook novella from J. Kenner. Following fan favorites Damien Stark and his wife, Nikki Fairchild, Play My Game is the story of their first Valentine’s Day as newlyweds, and offers an alluring glimpse of Jackson Steele, the alpha male featured in Kenner’s Say My Name.I never imagined that anything could top our honeymoon, but life as Mrs. Damien Stark is sweeter than any fantasy. We are f...

Seth Kada, a deep-cover agent working for the Commonwealth, has tracked a group of rebels to the remote Tayako Orbiter. But before he can seize them, the rebels are captured by a powerful rival faction and spirited away.Seth manages to re-capture one of the rebels, a subspace navigator named Ciela, and soon realizes that her crew's origin and purpose are far more pivotal than anyone could have suspected.Caught up in a violent clash between rebel factions, Seth and Ciela's d...

Captain Nova Whiteside receives new technology designed to change the course of the Commonwealth wars. Enemy factions conspire and so Nova finds herself aboard a rebel ship where her value as hostage isn't nearly as great as her value as a defector.Also suspected of collaboration, her Delphian Vanguard partner Tychon sets out to track her down. He discovers a puzzling piece of Nova's past when a motley alliance of strangers comes to his aid and their search leads him deep into rebe...

Star Trek continues its fiftieth anniversary celebration in 2016 with an all-new enovella from New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox, set in the popular and blockbuster Original Series era!The Enterprise-A is transporting a party of diplomats when it picks up a mysterious alien signal emanating from a nearby world. The planet’s dense, impenetrable atmosphere makes it unclear if the beacon is a distress signal, an invitation—...

Ships are disappearing in subspace, and Air Command is running out of time to stop it.After his navigator barely survives a disastrous jump, Sethran Kada traces the crisis to Chitta Moor — a lawless prison world where rebels, stranded crews, and rogue scientists are struggling with a terrifying discovery.The Dyads have returned.But this time they are not merely hiding among inside their hosts.They are fighting to survive.As jumpgates begin to fail ac...