War Stories

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.

Eleven years of war made Kurdish female freedom fighter, Avîn the finest sniper in northern Iraq. One shot too many makes her a name the enemy will pay to erase. Getting her to America is the easy part. What waits there is a small house, a job teaching Americans to shoot, and a man who has already burned his career to keep her alive. What she has to learn is harder — that an ordinary life is the rarest and most expensive thing there is, and that almost nobody standing on one has any idea what it

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

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.

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.

The story of Magnus continues in this novel. The sexual themes are more vanilla in comparison to the previous novel, but the world, characters and the story expand in every way. Our hero will travel farther than before and will encounter Slavers, Elves, Demons, Barbarians... In search for his sister, he will fight powerful mages, mysterious cults and forces beyond his understanding. This novel also sets the stage for the dramatic events that will happen in the future novels (I hope!)

A story set in the Pinwheel Universe
Betrayal! The Rask have launched a surprise attack against their former allies, plunging the territories of Borealis into a bloody war. The tyrannical Matriarch deploys her pirate legions to seize control of the planet's trade routes, while a UNN Assault Carrier lands a battalion of armored vehicles on its surface to restore order. The Coalition forces must drive across the Dune Sea, thousands of kilometers of inhospitable desert, fighting off the Rask army as they go.

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 story set in the Pinwheel Universe
A UNN fleet on routine patrol near the outskirts of Coalition space encounters a previously uncontacted civilization, but while the aliens seem friendly, the Betelgeusian hive fleet that's sizing up their homeworld is not. Undersupplied and months from the nearest reinforcements, the fleet must coordinate with the locals in order to organize a last ditch defense of the planet. (Please note: this is the HETEROSEXUAL edition.)

A Tiger Team Story
Following nearly being Court-martialed because of the results of their mission to Parthas, Tiger Team and the other members of First Mobile Headquarters Team are scheduled for a number of schools while the Partners have their young. There are several incidents while Tiger Team attends school and a few surprises afterwards before they receive their next assignment, which is to stop the guerrilla activity on Owen's World. The situation there turns out to be very different from what they were told.