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New Scene for Legion of Traitors

One of the great blessings of self publishing is that, when you find a flaw in your work, you can just fix it. Rewrite, reupload the manuscript, and presto, no more flaw! (Of course, you’ll find another one soon enough, but that’s a problem for later.) Point is, thanks to several reviewers and my editor, […]

The Birth of Telepathy

Approximately three centuries before Mercy and Dante arrived at the undiscovered planet, genetic engineers had created the quantum sense. Those with the right connections or enough influence to get this artificial genetic marker unlocked the ability to perceive and manipulate the quantum entanglements. By finding entanglements that led to the atoms of a person’s mind, […]

Exile War 6 Excerpt

Jayda Carlsbad said, “I’m not being stupid. The opposite. This is wisdom. I knew your mother, Mercy. Lust made her an Archon.” Mercy’s face went beet red. “Lust?! What do you think—” “I think you’re an eighteen-year-old young woman and he’s an eighteen-year-old young man. You’re both fit, you’re both attractive. It’s natural to feel […]

Mercy Rising Excerpt, Chapter 1

Detection meant death, and tonight, it meant worse than death. If they were caught, they’d be eaten alive. Starting a revolution carried a brutal price tag, and Mercy Hail had no intention of paying it. She was about ten minutes away from being rich enough to finally buy her way off world. Deliver one last […]

Excerpt from The Hunted Rogue

They circled each other warily, two Gentle Hands and one Archon. The Intelligence continued to describe them as unidentifiable – their biosigs not in any database. To Dante, though, that didn’t seem true. They both felt familiar, in a way he couldn’t quite put his finger on. “We have no desire to fight you, Archon,” […]

Onslaught Sample Chapter

PROLOGUE “Your life will be at risk.” Two men stood at a viewport. Before them endless space, star-flecked darkness, the infinite black. Around them, the bustle of a deep space refinery, cargo crews loading shuttles, and the constant low-grade roar of an antimatter collider that no amount of soundproofing could ever entirely squelch. The speaker […]

The Union of Human Space

The Union is the closest thing to a “galactic government” at the start of the Exile War novels. It arose from the fact that wormhole FTL flights were risky. Some risk always existed that the wormhole might collapse, and the entire cargo be lost. When the value of a ship and its cargo exceeded the […]