Military Stories

A Rivers Region Story
Farmers lives are ruled by the land they work and nature's cycles. James is the son of a farmer who's orphaned by a bushfire. He continues to live with his father's old boss, but knows he has to make his own way in life after school. Life has it's ups and downs, and many challenges for James. He leaves the farm for the Australian Army, but ends up back as a farm worker due to combat wounds. Join James as he meets many challenges and changes in his life. / (Reviews)

The war between the Families and the Colandran Empire did not end at Setosha. There was more fighting, more battles, and the reminder that Corey Andersen wasn't the only Families commander the Empire had to deal with. In a brilliant campaign Adana Korina fought her way across the Empire, splitting it in two. And it all started with the death of a single woman...

Left for dead in the mountains of Afghanistan, wounded Special Forces sergeant Omar Mansoor is found at a frozen stream by four women the world had cast aside—abandoned, widowed, beaten, never chosen. At the risk of their lives, they shelter and heal him through one long, dangerous winter. What grows among them is a family no one believed possible: bound by faith, forged in peril, and tested across a war and an ocean. An unforgettable story of courage, love, and belonging.

When Private First Class Kirsti Duncan arrives at Forward Operating Base Vanguard, the men give her a broken hut, a quiet corner, and two weeks before she cracks. They are wrong about all of it. On her first full day, she spots what every drone and every sergeant missed — and when the attack comes before dawn, she makes a choice that will cost her everything except her life. A story about what it means to hold the line when no one believes you're capable of holding anything at all.

A Swarm Cycle Story
Two old friends join the Armed Forces of the Confederacy. Meanwhile, William Whitefeather has one final training course to teach...

In the late years of a global war, a Marine officer named Hitch who had wearied of fighting and chosen to live alone for five years meets a small family who changes his life. Through the love of a young woman in her middle teens, Hitch finds old emotions he thought he'd lost, and is drawn to rejoin the world he thought he'd left behind. Note: This story contains acts of violence (NOT rape or NC content, but battle and hunting), as well as descriptions of mental illness. / (Reviews)

Marine veteran Ray had been shipwrecked, all alone, on a tropical island for six months until another typhoon also shipwrecked a beautiful young woman. Every woman in Ray's life had, at one point or another, betrayed him. Will Sleeping Beauty (as he nicknamed the unconscious woman) continue that curse once she regains consciousness? Will he once again be screwed (and not the good kind of screwed)? Will he ever reach the mountaintop, or be stuck forever in the valley.

A Dragon Chronicle Story
Sam's mountain getaway is interrupted by a threat to national security.

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
When a survey vessel stumbles upon an undiscovered Earth-like planet, the UNN scrambles to lay claim to it. Unfortunately, a Betelgeusian hive fleet also has its eyes on the rare prize. / (Reviews)

Modern-day Marine Steven Harris is seriously wounded and on a flight to Germany for further treatment. Instead, he awakens in 200 BC Rome. Aside from wondering how the hell he ended up there--or if he was merely dreaming--he wonders how to go about supporting himself. Then he learns the "why" of his transfer and his life becomes a bit more complicated.