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Murph and Jack are on the hunt for the biggest prize of them all: the Fifth Gate. But what exactly is it? And what will they do when they find it? Jack thinks he knows the answer, but what they find might not be what they expect. To make matters worse, someone else is on the hunt. And not just anyone, but another Orphan, and a powerful one at that. With his team by his side, Murph saddles up and prepares for a fight he won't soon forget.

David Osage must rescue the mysterious young Navigator - she’s the key to sending the Fosk-ha away forever. But he has to keep his sister from turning into a monster, even though they need that monster to fight the enemy. Although uneasy, Earth’s fighters must form an alliance with an alien overlord who has an agenda of his own. Can they choose the winning side, and if they do, can they live with it? The Fosk-ha have never lost a war, but the battle for Earth will be like nothing human or alien has ever seen.

Halek Cain and his crew jump into one slip tunnel after another to escape a psychopath with an armada of deadly warships. Every system is a trap; every encounter a potential battle. When Cain and his friends receive a distress call from the Bold Freedom, innocent lives will hang on their every decision. And Cain still has debts that need to be paid. People who helped him off the exploding prison station are going to die horribly if he doesn’t pull of the impossible. But they don’t call him the Last Reaper for nothing.

Lieutenant Hoffman and the exhausted Marines of Valdar's Hammer are called upon to make a desperate assault against the enemy's home world. But the foe is prepared, and their planet is a death trap. While the Strike Marines fight for their lives, the fabled ship Breitenfeld remains captured by the Ibarra Nation, and the Ember War hero Valdar languishes in a cell. The ship and her captain are held on a strange world of the Ibarra's design, and only the Hammers can free them.

This collection includes Valdar's Hammer and The Beast of Eridu, books three and four of the Ember War universe. War has come to Syracuse, and only one team of Terran Strike Marines can save the planet in Valdar's Hammer. In The Beast of Eridu, an ancient beast awakens, and only Lieutenant Hoffman and his Strike Marines can put it down.

When the Terran Union has a mission that must not fail, it calls upon the Strike Marines. They are trained to improvise, adapt, overcome and win every fight. Terran Strike Marines: Publisher's Pack is an action-packed military science-fiction adventure set in the best-selling Ember War universe. This pack includes The Dotari Salvation and The Rage of Winter.

The Fosk-ha spent a thousand years traveling to Earth. Violent, world-subjugating void travelers, they’ve terrorized and enslaved civilizations across the galaxy for countless eons. Humanity doesn’t stand a chance...or do they? A truck driver with a history of illegal street racing, a cop unwilling to back down from bullies and terrorists, and a game designer who’s learning to put theory into action; an unlikely crew to save the world, but somebody has to fight back.

When Halek Cain and his wildly talented crew of runaways, rogue scientists, and rebel commandos arrive in system to save a ship of political refugees, they quickly realize things are not as they seem. The system is full of derelict ships from ancient battles. It's a gold mine of history, resources, and old technology.

When leading archeologist Dr. Hank Murphy discovers an alien artifact on the Moon, corporate interests are quick to get involved. Murphy just wants to understand what this thing is and how it works. After months of research, he finally manages to locate the power source. The gate is soon activated...and Murphy is pulled through. Moments later, he finds himself in a war-torn corner of the galaxy where strangers like him are called Orphans...and they are considered extremely dangerous. Somehow altered by the experience, the archeologist now has enhanced strength, speed, and agility.

When Halek Cain and his allies search for a new home, the exodus fleet faces their ancient enemies right when a captured scientist unleashes deadly experiments. Alon scout ships are drawing the exodus fleet into a trap. Two disparate civilizations must work together to move a massive, broken-down fleet into a new system while dealing with external threats and an internal crisis. Doctor Ayers has attempted to revive an alien race through DNA splicing, but instead of resurrecting the past, he’s created unstoppable creatures of extraordinary power.

When a new variant of Srack attacks in force, Jake leads the new Order of the Star Blade into battle. Even his Sotalorian allies show up to help. Then, right when everything is going his way, Corina's team disappears through an anomaly that shouldn't exist. Can Jake hold together an alliance of his most dangerous rivals long enough to save the day?

Kilian Drake, the most renowned swordsman of a generation, has searched the galaxy for fragments of a lost star blade. Now, on a remote world called Earth, he may have found answers.

When a platoon of tall boys learns their sergeant's brother is MIA, they go into a city wracked with centuries of war to find him. By the end of the fight, they will learn of a massive government coverup by the highest officers in the expeditionary fleet, an alien invasion, new portal technology, and an AI uprising that may or may not be benevolent. All they must do to put things right is save humanity.

Jake Fox wrestles free of Sotalorian politics to return home and learn what really happened to Earth. The only people he trusts are rebels, outcasts, and a starship that should have been scrapped decades ago. The sentient weapon he captured from his defeated rival is a dangerous burden, and the viceroy seems to have turned against him. All is not well for the only Star Blade. He uses the last of his influence to secure pardons for his friends, which are quickly rescinded by the Emperor's political machine, forcing them to run.

When two ancient and overpowered AIs clash, Jam and his platoon are forced to make hard decisions and battle against impossible odds. With his friends in mortal danger and the future of the Capian Alliance of Terran Systems hanging in the balance, he will attempt one last gambit to beat impossible odds.

When a new Srack overlord ambushes Jake and his apprentices, they are served a painful lesson in humility. Only the timely arrival of Vilak, The One Who Vanishes, saves their lives, and that isn't going to work twice. The fate of Earth, Calden, and several other planets is at stake. Fortunately, the events of the past have provided a plan for the future. All they must do is find four ancient weapons and pass a series of tests on the Ulniiri homeworld. Then the real fighting can begin.

The toughest, most damaged mechanized combat rig crew in the war has to be broken up. That's nonnegotiable, apparently. But can the most notorious operator of the bunch follow the orders of a new lieutenant with secret ties to the admiral? The newest, most deadly enemy of the Capian First Expeditionary Fleet, known as the Alaran Kill Team, has its own mission: to take out the scientist blocking them from invading. Jam and his new battle companions must navigate threats from above and below to stop the AKT.

Bameron Kold has never known anything but life in Yorp, a city ruined by centuries of war. When a pilot from the galactic empire crash lands in his zone, saving her life comes at a personal cost. His closest companion is a construction robot with too much artificial intelligence to go unnoticed. Now, he must earn the pilot's trust in the hope that she won't turn him and his robot into the space fleet authorities. When he thinks everything is going wrong, it all gets so much worse.

When aliens invade Las Vegas, one man is thrust into a battle beyond imagination, fighting the terrifying shock troops of a sprawling galactic empire. To protect a terrified child, he seizes the strange weapon of a fallen hero—an ancient, sentient sword—and is catapulted far into the future with no way back. Now trapped in an alien world, he must master the sword's mysterious power and navigate a deadly game of political intrigue. But time is running out for humanity.