The good guys won the battle, but the war goes on.Wash Williams has been recruited to help Brian Reeves and the Delta Force team close gates to the worlds controlled by the Hive-Mind, while back on Thacia, Valon does the same thing from the other side.But new gates continue to open, and unless someone can figure out how to stop the effect, it will keep spreading and the war will never end.The only hope the Earthers and the Thacians have may be to work together in a ...

We’ve won a battle … but we’re losing the war.Travis Miller, his image reformed from the moron who screwed up our first contact with aliens to one of the heroes of the Battle for Eden, is given a new assignment: retake the occupied colony of Brigantia. Losing it would be a glancing blow to the Tahni Imperium, but it would be Earth’s first solid strike against them, a chance to go on the offensive.Ryan Hendrix and the Fleet Marines will be the tip of the spe...

A disaffected playboy searches for redemption.A traumatized war vet searches for meaning and truth.A ruthless Corporate Council fixer searches for the one big score that will make her career.What they all seek, on the same remote colony world, is....The Gate of Dreams.A 6500-word short story set in the Birthright universe.

Alex Kane was broken.Broken by the war, by the death of his lover, ready to kill himself...until his old bosses from Fleet Intelligence offered him a chance at redemption with one last mission.All he had to do was walk into the middle of a gang war, penetrate an insular cult of cyborgs and kill the same sort of half-alien, half-machine monster who'd killed the love of his life during the war...the same machine the cyborgs worship as their messiah.What could go wrong...

Revenge is heading to Earth at the speed of light…The Gaia probes left a dying Earth millennia ago in a bold effort to spread life to a lifeless universe.Unfortunately, not all of those worlds were uninhabited...The aliens watched their world die to swarms of nanite terraformers, but with their last breath they launched a terrible, unstoppable weapon to kill those who'd stolen their home.Patrol Captain Sam Avalon is the first human to encounter it, a missile...

The Bugs are coming...They destroyed the civilization of the ancient alien Elders thousands of years ago, and now they're following Andy Clanton and the crew of the James Bowie back from the edge of the galaxy and into Alliance space, bent on wiping out all intelligent life in the galaxy.The Bugs probe for weakness, attacking new friends and old enemies, and forcing Andy and the others into union with forces that had tried to destroy them only mont...

Ryan Hendrix is dead …… Or so his family, his girlfriend, and his fellow Marines think.Terribly wounded during the battle for Hermes, Ryan Hendrix was repaired with cybernetics, transformed into a weapon by Fleet Intelligence … and covertly dropped onto the enemy-occupied colony at Aphrodite to sabotage the enemy and build up a civilian resistance.While Ryan fights the real battle behind enemy lines, Travis Miller and Jessica Leer struggle with politics … a...

They thought the war was over . . . the enemy had other ideas.Two years after the end of the Psi War, Caleb Mitchell is Emperor in all but name, leading his armies on a crusade to cleanse the colony worlds and Earth itself of the last of the psionic madmen known as the Changed.But the citizens of the Commonwealth weren't the only ones devastated by the war; the criminal cartels in the Pirate Worlds are in chaos, their trade cut off, their resources running ...

Sometimes, it takes killing to make a living.That fiancee? She’s married—to another guy.The family business? His parents sold it.Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do?Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contr...

Kyle Washaki "Wash" Williams thought his life couldn’t get any more complicated. Then the aliens showed up …After his mom died from cancer, Wash gave up his girlfriend and his dream of being a career Army officer to stay home and take care of his father, a former Special Forces soldier stricken with PTSD. Wash works three jobs just to pay thebills, and one of them is at the ranch of the man who’s engaged to his exgirlfriend, Jimmy Bonner.Sound rough? He thought so to...

It's the end of everything . . .The greatest heroes of the Commonwealth are gathered in the breach for one last fight. The Transformation Virus rages through human space like a wildfire, changing ordinary men and women into psionic demi-gods, bent on destruction and conquest.The government has fallen, the military is helpless and the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a collection of unlikely saviors. Sandi Hollande, disgraced war hero. Kara McIntire, cold and calculati...

No enemy is so dangerous as when you think they’re defeated.The Hive Mind has deceived the Americans and the Thacians into believing they had the strategy that would destroy it once and for all…and instead, they opened the gates through to Thacia and, from there, into the United States.And the demons streamed through by the tens of thousands, too many for artillery and air support to drive them back. The Army and Air Force keep pouring on the hurt, but it’s only a matter of...