Novels
Science Fiction
All three novels in the Serengeti sci-fi series (Serengeti, Dark and Stars, and Hecate) are available for purchase, courtesy of Severed Press.
All three novels in the Serengeti sci-fi series (Serengeti, Dark and Stars, and Hecate) are available for purchase, courtesy of Severed Press.
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It was supposed to be an easy job: find the Dark Star Revolution Starships, destroy them, and go home. But a booby-trapped vessel decimates the Meridian Alliance fleet, leaving Serengeti—a Valkyrie class warship with a sentient AI brain—on her own; wrecked and abandoned in an empty expanse of space.
On the edge of total failure, Serengeti thinks only of her crew. She herds the survivors into a lifeboat, intending to sling them into space. But the escape pod sticks in her belly, locking the cryogenically frozen crew inside. Then a scavenger ship arrives to pick Serengeti's bones clean. Her engines dead, her guns long silenced, Serengeti and her last two robots must find a way to fight the scavengers off and save the crew trapped inside her. Buy now Ebook and Paperback: Amazon | B&N Audio Book: Amazon | Audible | Tantor Fifty-three years Serengeti drifted, dreaming in the depths of space. Fifty-three years of patient waiting before her Valkyrie Sisters arrive to retrieve her from the dark. A bittersweet homecoming follows, the Fleet Serengeti once knew now in shambles, its admiral, Cerberus, gone missing, leaving Brutus in charge. Brutus who’s subsumed the Fleet, ignoring his duty to the Meridian Alliance to pursue a vendetta against the Dark Star Revolution.
The Valkyries have a plan to stop him—depose Brutus and restore the Fleet’s purpose—and that plan involves Serengeti. Depends on Serengeti turning her guns against her own. Because the Fleet can no longer be trusted. With Brutus in charge, it’s just Serengeti and her Sisters, and whatever reinforcements they can find. A top-to-bottom refit restores Serengeti to service, and after a rushed reunion with Henricksen and her surviving crew, she takes off for the stars. For Faraday—a prison station—to stage a jailbreak, and free the hundreds of Meridian Alliance AIs wrongfully imprisoned in its Vault. From there to the Pandoran Cloud and a rendezvous with her Valkyrie Sisters. To retrieve a fleet of rebel ships stashed away inside. One last battle, one last showdown with Brutus and his Dreadnoughts and it all ends. A civil war—one half of the Meridian Alliance Fleet turned against the other, with the very future of the Meridian Alliance hanging in the balance. |
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Black Ops—the intelligence arm of the Meridian Alliance Fleet came calling with an offer Henricksen couldn’t refuse: a ship—an entire squadron of ships, actually—and crew to command. A chance to get back to the stars.
Too bad he didn’t ask more questions before accepting the assignment. Too bad no one told him just how dangerous this particular skunkworks project was. They call the ship the RV-N: Reconnaissance Vessel - Non-combat, Raven for short. A stealth ship—fast, and maneuverable, and brutal as hell. On the surface, Henricksen's assignment seems simple: train his crew, run the RV-Ns through their paces, get the ships certified for mission operations and job done. But an accident in training reveals a fatal design flaw in the Raven, and when an undercover operative steals classified information from a Black Ops facility, the Fleet Brass cancels the tests completely, rushing the faulty ships and their half-trained crew into live operations. On a mission to recover the Fleet’s lost secrets. Out of time and out of options, Henricksen has no choice but to launch his squadron. But a ghost from his past makes him question everything—the ships, their AI, the entirety of this mission, right down to the secrets he and his crew are supposed to recover. |
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After twenty years spent fighting the alien Kekktekians on the Halgren Defense Coalition’s behalf, Captain Thomas Faraday finds himself reassigned to the AI warship Hadrian, and playing watchdog over the terraforming project on Armistice. A quiet, boring job he never wanted, but with a cease-fire in place, his skills aren’t really needed. And given his recent trip-up with military secrets, he’s lucky to still have a career.
What he doesn’t know is the tranquility around Armistice won’t last long—all it takes is a single ping to obliterate fifty years of peace. That first rogue contact trips Armistice’s long range sensors and quickly multiplies into a cascade of failures chewing hungrily through the planetary defense grid. Soon after, a fleet of vessels appear that squawk out Halgren credentials but refuse to respond to any of Hadrian’s hails. And something else, something ghostly that lurks in their shadows, cloaking itself in the ships’ electronic chatter. Something that feels Kekktekian to Faraday’s battle-trained mind, even though it doesn’t fit any of their patterns. With an unknown adversary on its way in, Faraday and his crew gear up to defend Armistice. Combat’s nothing new, Faraday’s built an entire career around war, but this time it’s one ship against many. With no help on the way and no chance of reinforcements in sight. And there’s more than just a planet at stake here: what’s out there threatens a hard-won and still tenuous accord that, if broken, will reignite a centuries-old feud. |
Fantasy
Breakshield and Seiokana (the first two installments of the Breakshield series) were published in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Sadly, the publisher has since gone out of business so the third and final installment in the series, Fox and Shadow, is on hold until I can find a new home for the trilogy. In the meantime, I've got a free short story set in the Breakshield universe on offer: The Fox and the Djinn.
Breakshield and Seiokana (the first two installments of the Breakshield series) were published in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Sadly, the publisher has since gone out of business so the third and final installment in the series, Fox and Shadow, is on hold until I can find a new home for the trilogy. In the meantime, I've got a free short story set in the Breakshield universe on offer: The Fox and the Djinn.
Breakshield
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Found at the intersection of life and the afterlife, the Between is a place where science and reason are replaced by magic and violence. It is a place where Typhon and his Huntsman of the Dark Waste spread like a plague and where Talents go to die. The only thing standing in Typhon’s way is Morgan Quendalen and the people of the Shining Lands. They are sworn to protect the last remaining Talents, a precious few who teeter at the edge of extinction. Morgan valiantly fights, protecting these last remnants of magic in a war he's not sure he can actually win. When Jamie Aster, a mortal Talent with undiscovered powers, is put under his charge, Morgan weighs his oath against a desire to save the Shining Lands. Could he kill a Talent if it meant saving his people?
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Seiokana
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In the Between, a magical realm between mortal life and the afterlife, the Seekers and Watchers of the Shining Lands are sworn to protect the few Talents left in the mortal world, but the number of Talents is dwindling rapidly. Could the disappearances be related to a missing Seeker or the mysterious creature suddenly inhabiting an abandoned settlement? While the leading Seekers bicker over strategies, Typhon, who rules the Dark Waste with a hand of fire and a cadre of Hunstmen, is gaining power and getting closer to finding Jamie Aster, the newest Talent to arrive. Nobody knows what Jamie’s Talent actually is. But Typhon will stop at nothing and Jamie may be the Talent’s redemption, or their doom. While the settlers of Broadmoor protect Jamie, they must also uncover his Talent and train him to defend himself before it’s too late. Morgan was able to save Jamie from Typhon’s burning grasp once before, but he may not be able to do it again.
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