"Every war begins with a cast of the iron dice.
The battles never end for Admiral James Henry. After months of negotiations, galactic alliance talks between the Independent Systems Federation and the Terran Coalition have stalled. There’s no urgency to strike a deal since the antidote nullified the Jalm’tar Empire’s Curall threat. But Jim suspects the usurper on the Jalm’tar throne still has a decisive hand to play in war games.
Especially with humanity at its weakest.
Decades of endless combat with the League of Sol have devastated the Terran Coalition’s galactic readiness, while the ISF’s fledgling fleet is a mere ragtag battlegroup of refitted private vessels. But when news reaches Jim of an overwhelming Jalm’tar incursion into the Sagittarius Arm, it’s all hands on deck.
Once again, he’s forced to call on the Venture Star crew for an impossible mission. They must find and restore the rightful heir to the Jalm’tar throne to halt the imminent invasion.
Before the final die is cast."
"Every victory begins with a sacrifice.
Major Levi Cohen readies to retire after twenty years of peacetime service to the Terran Coalition. With mere weeks remaining, he allows the luxury of imagining days alongside his wife and eight-year-old son instead of separated by duty. He promised that this year he wouldn’t miss another one of David’s birthdays – and he intends to keep his word.
His plans are cut short when the League of Sol sends a massive force of warships into Coalition territory. The only chance they have is to drag every available ship from mothballs and pray their superior technology will carry the day.
When an opportunity to strike at the heart of the enemy arises in the middle of battle, Levi realizes it is the one and only opening that will stave off complete disaster. The last option to save his wife and son from enslavement by the League.
All gave some; Levi must give all. "
"The Shadow Wolf is gone.
Admiral James Henry has traded a war of weapons for one cloaked in diplomacy as leader of the fledgling Independent Systems Fleet. Fighting alongside the Terran Coalition to rid the Sagittarius Arm of tyranny was the easy part. Now forced into the political arena, he’s never missed the freewheeling spacer’s life more.
Or his scattered crew.
Leading them, Captain Miri Gaon is still haunted by past actions working deep cover for Coalition Intelligence Service. When pirates attack the Venture Star on a medical supply run to a frontier planet, age-old training kicks in.
And suspicions are raised.
“Curall” promises a miracle for whatever ails you. But miracles demand steep sums mere credits can’t pay. When a vial lands in her lap from an unexpected source, Miri and her crew must get the Venture Star spaceworthy again and fight past vicious warlords and pirates to deliver the addictive drug to Admiral Henry.
Or see more worlds fall to an all-new enemy."
"The stealth war has only begun.
Admiral James Henry faces a serious dilemma. Curall has already made deep inroads throughout Independent Space. While distracted fighting the League, the Jalm’tar Empire waged a clandestine war using the highly addictive substance—with far deadlier consequences.
Billions across the galaxy face an excruciating death without a constant supply of the drug for which there is no known antidote. To keep the tap flowing, one planet’s leadership intends to roll the dice and adopt the Jalm’tar’s terms despite their onerous constraints.
If they fall, others are doomed to follow.
As news reaches him of the scheduled vote, Admiral Henry is once again forced to call on his former crew. The Venture Star must infiltrate an autocratic empire bent on the Sagittarius Arm’s subjugation. But when one of their own is caught in the Curall net, the race is on to discover the Jalm’tar’s secret ace in the hole.
Before time runs out."
"There is a time to weep and a time to mourn.
For the CSV Lion of Judah, that time has not yet come.
The war with the League of Sol ended in victory for the Terran Coalition. Major General David Cohen and his crew conclude their three-month goodwill cruise with one final FTL jump. But instead of returning home in a blaze of glory, the wormhole collapses and hurls them more than four million lightyears into the unknown.
Stranding them in a distant galaxy.
With dwindling supplies but buoyed by hope of a miracle, David follows the evidence to a nearby inhabited planet. After a disastrous first contact with the less advanced alien civilization, rival factions threaten the tenuous peace—and reignite a centuries-old genocidal conflict.
Now David and the war-weary Lion must take up arms once again to head off a catastrophic event in hopes of unlocking an ancient technology’s secrets.
Before the chance to return home is lost forever."
"When justice is the only measure, there’s no room for mercy.
Stranded in a galaxy far from home, General David Cohen and the CSV Lion of Judah make the best of an impossible situation. After saving twin alien worlds from self-inflicted Armageddon, David and his crew are hailed as both heroes and heretics. Religious zealots remain bent on destruction. To help the planetside Marine contingent in the fight against terrorists, the fleet needs resources to refuel their ships.
Resources that are in short supply as they search for a way home.
A nearby system has just what the general ordered. But when three of his most senior officers are captured and charged with theft, David offers himself in their place. In a society that values justice at any cost, however, his willing sacrifice falls on deaf ears.
To illustrate mercy, David challenges the aliens with one of their own archaic statutes—a galactic duel, winner takes all. But even with superior CDF technology, ten-to-one odds place the fleet at a distinct disadvantage.
And in a zero-sum game, there are no points for second place."
"Evil never sleeps.
Home is on everyone’s minds, but none so much as General David Cohen. The weight of the universe grows heavier with each passing week as the CSV Lion of Judah searches the Sextans B galaxy for answers to how they ended up four million light-years off course. But all they find are more questions as one solar system after another turns up empty.
And their inhabitants vanished without a trace.
Colonel Calvin Demood has little time for thoughts of his wife and newborn back home. Just when his Marines think they’ve seen the last of religious extremists, terrorists strike again determined to destroy the technological advancements the Coalition has shared with the alien worlds.
Technology that won’t save them from an unstoppable enemy.
In their search for precursor artifacts, the Lion encounters a malevolent force impervious to CDF weaponry—and seeking the same ancient tech that stranded them in the unfamiliar galaxy. As the horrifying truth of this enemy’s plans becomes reality, David faces an impossible choice:
Break every oath he holds dear or witness the complete annihilation of all life in the universe."
"The enemy crouches at the door, seeking to devour.
Major General David Cohen must accept the truth. It’s only a matter of time before the nanite swarm obliterates all life in the galaxy. With irrefutable evidence of the swarm’s devastation, David convinces twin alien worlds to join the Terran Coalition in exchange for technology that might save them.
An almost impossible task.
Master Chief Rebecca Tinetariro is charged with molding lifelong, bitter enemies into comrades in arms to fight for their collective survival.
But her efforts appear hopeless.
While orbital shipyards are built and raw materials mined, David, the CSV Lion of Judah, and her battlegroup embark on a mission to a technologically advanced civilization to increase their chances of a successful strike. But the hubris of first contact with alien worlds has finally caught up with him, and intervention to save souls from a crushing regime demands a heavy price for justice.
Because the Lion has met its match."
"Every beginning has an end.
Build, train, drill, and prepare has become the mantra of the Terran Coalition’s newest member worlds. As warships roll out of orbital shipyards for shakedown cruises and classes of new recruits graduate, Major General David Cohen reminds all of their singular resolve: destroy the nanite scourge.
Despite bringing together once bitter enemies and saving countless souls from oppressive regimes, David questions his decisions after each battlefield incursion as the stack of condolence letters rises.
Letters that may never reach home.
Research on the precursor race artifacts has reached a dead end. Rare earth minerals needed for upgraded systems on newly-minted destroyers are in short supply. The clock is running out to build a defense against an unstoppable enemy.
When hope arrives from an unexpected source, the line between friend and foe grows blurred. Everything David thought he understood about the enemy is challenged. The answers to age-old questions about life and death are lost in the void.
And the very fabric of Creation itself threatens to unravel."
"The end is near.
Amid exhausting preparations for a battle to end all battles, Major General David Cohen celebrates a momentous event. At long last he’s tying the knot. The good news keeps coming as enmity between rival worlds of Sextans B has vanished, drawn together to confront the sinister swarm.
But numbers don’t lie.
Despite miraculous progress on all fronts, the math doesn’t add up. No matter how many destroyers leave orbital shipyards or training exercises are untaken to get ships and crew up to CDF standards, David realizes they’re fighting an uphill battle.
Until hope springs anew.
Dr. Hayworth’s efforts with the precursor obelisk finally bear fruit when a stable trans-galactic wormhole parts the void. At long last, the Lion and her battlegroup can return home. But with reestablished communications, David confronts the old political wrangling that has long plagued the Terran Coalition. With combat imminent, he faces an impossible choice: disobey a direct order and stay to fight or abandon the galaxy he’s fought to preserve to their fate.
And behold Creation’s ultimate destruction."
"'Pulse pounding action coupled with a look at the cost of war - Weapons Free grabbed me from the first page.' - USA Today Bestselling Author Rhett C. Bruno
Thirty-five years of peace. One vicious attack destroys it all.
Reservist Lieutenant Justin Spencer loves every minute of flying fighters through space during his annual two-week tour with the Coalition Defense Force. The job back home isn’t nearly as thrilling as blowing up asteroids with the squadron under his command, but it keeps him close to his wife and daughter. After all, joining the CDF was only for the free education. Justin never expected a battle, much less a war.
With one shot across his cockpit, peacetime fades into memory.
An unexpected enemy emerges with overwhelming force designed to obliterate the Terran Coalition. The League of Sol has a different name, but it’s the same communist regime that chased away much of Earth’s population hundreds of years ago.
Illusions of returning home are shattered in a single instant. Simulated battles become all too real, and it’s full-on engagement or permanent elimination. Death and destruction erupt across the Terran Coalition and leave Justin in a protracted war with only one truth remaining.
The battlefield will leave no one unscathed."
"Protracted war is inevitable.
Six weeks ago, Lieutenant Justin Spencer was just another reservist in the Coalition Defense Force. Becoming a lifer wasn’t in the cards—until the League of Sol brutally attacked the Terran Coalition. With several pivotal battles now under his belt, friends and strangers alike call Justin a hero. But he finds the accolades difficult to swallow when the night only intensifies images from his first taste of combat.
Then he’s faced with an active duty extension.
The League is hitting supply convoys on their long journeys between the mining colonies. Without the rare minerals, Coalition shipyards can’t produce the needed firepower to fight off losses sustained from the enemy’s overwhelming forces.
An enemy that appears to anticipate the CDF’s every play.
When the CSV Zvika Greengold is tapped for a black ops action, Justin volunteers to pilot a captured enemy aircraft on what he discovers too late is a suicide mission. For any chance of survival, he’ll need to rely on more than sheer skill and dumb luck.
He’ll need a miracle."
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