Earl T. Roske Books in Order

College professor Josh Butrow buys his first home and discovers an elderly woman’s ghost already living there. With help from a retired neighbor, he investigates what keeps her in the house and whether he can resolve her predicament.

Goss Simnick’s frustration over disappearing socks leads to a discovery behind his clothes dryer: a mysterious tunnel. He steps inside hoping to locate his missing laundry and understand a passage that has no place in his ordinary urban life.

Pursued during the Crusades, Hospitaller knight Jevan becomes trapped underground with a Muslim warrior. They accept assistance from a veiled woman, but her unexplained presence and dangerous secrets make escaping the labyrinth more complicated than finding a route out.

When music begins disappearing from written scores and people's memories, opera singer Allegra pursues the thief responsible. With unusual companions and a magical map, she must catch him before he escapes beyond its boundaries.

Earl T. Roske gathers the first ten short plays from his career as a playwright. The collection traces five years of writing, beginning with his first work accepted for production and continuing through his tenth ten-minute play.

Among the last humans on Earth, Acharon enjoys an isolated life until illness threatens his companion Sovelet. Saving her means entering a city reclaimed by wildlife and confronting dangers and memories he hoped to leave behind.

A humanitarian mission to rebuild a town turns dangerous when the Hospitallers' supporting ship leaves the system. Repeated attacks force Captain Morris to defend her people, and a capture reveals that even her precautions may be inadequate.

Padilla Zlotterie rescues civilians from a derelict ship, only to become entangled with an aggressive planetary government. A buried secret provokes deadly attacks, leaving him to protect both the people he saved and his fellow Hospitallers.

These speculative stories move between strange technologies, supernatural encounters and unsettled communities. A mysterious weapon, a net reaching into another universe and a sentient butterfly are among the discoveries that force characters to reconsider their worlds.

After fighting three Marines, Sergeant Seavers faces a punishment that could destroy his officer-training prospects. Commanding a resentful Marine platoon on an aid mission, he must contend with suspicious colonists and the consequences of his own actions.

On his first mission as an alien-animal handler, Pagnotto helps investigate bombings with a creature that can identify every scent. The search draws the Hospitallers into a wider conflict that threatens to destroy their entire company.

Sergeant Kori Eldersun expects an easy assignment escorting nine orphans, until engine failure and pirates leave them vulnerable. Without combat equipment, he must rely on his wits to keep the children out of their attackers' hands.

Kori follows the remaining missing orphans to an asteroid mining facility near Ikenga. With allies beside him, he must infiltrate the installation and rescue the children as unforeseen complications threaten the successful completion of his mission.

Kori reaches the space station Samael determined to recover the orphans taken from his care. A job buys him time to search, but local secrets, hostile interests and uncertain allies threaten his freedom and the rescue.

Acharon and Sovelet continue across a world largely abandoned by humanity toward an enclave in New York City. Their journey brings them closer to a surviving community where ambitious plans and hidden secrets await.

Lieutenant Derinzinski distrusts the enormous butterfly accompanying his mission. When disaster strands his team far from help, the persistent alien becomes harder to dismiss, forcing him to confront painful memories and reconsider whether this unexpected companion deserves his trust.

Responding to a distress signal, Dewey Tyler's Hospitallers rescue a failing ship before coming under attack themselves. With their jump drive broken, they must choose between staying in danger or landing on a planet with a hostile atmosphere.

A modern distress beacon transmits from a planet believed abandoned after nuclear war centuries earlier. Dewey Tyler and his team set out to discover who remains on Juracan and what has prompted their unexpected call for help.

A relief mission on snowy Abira draws Sergeant Imara Fermo into a conflict deeper than a food shortage. Escorting supplies to a neighboring town, she uncovers deception that could cost her squad their lives before they report the truth.

Sergeant Imara Fermo and her Hospitallers arrive to help a town threatened by floods, but propaganda has turned residents against them. Rising waters, government manipulation, and hidden political stakes complicate their efforts to carry out the rescue.

An attack on their dropship strands Imara Fermo's squad behind enemy lines during a mission to defend a city. Separated from the other Hospitallers, they must survive hostile territory while a broken ceasefire drives the war onward.