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Promoted to Chief of Police, Silver Cane finds herself pushed away from fieldwork while attacks threaten the system's protective technology. With the military following false leads, she must rebuild her depleted force and defend the galaxy against interstellar terrorists.

Sergeant Andrea Dolan and her Space Marines defend the ESS Alliance when hostile aliens invade. As the fighting escalates, Andy develops unexplained abilities, forcing her to confront questions about her identity while her squad struggles to protect humanity.

Jack Forge leads a secret mission into hostile space after an old enemy returns. Fighting outside threats is difficult enough, but traitors aboard his own force threaten to destroy the Marines before they can complete their assignment.

Betrayed and left for dead as her police force collapses, Silver Cane faces conspirators embedded in the government. Infiltrating their stronghold may be her only way to stop the spreading chaos, but doing so demands a dangerous personal sacrifice.

Silver Cane pursues the first interstellar terrorist in recorded history as his continued escapes bring further destruction. Her investigation challenges her faith in the supposedly perfect society she protects, making the hunt a test of both skill and conviction.

Taken from an academic life and made a Fleet Marine recruit, Jack Forge wants no part of war. When the Chitin attack a remote alien world, survival forces him to fight despite his reluctance and lack of experience.

The Mercury Blade's crew faces a new artificial intelligence that could join an ancient alien intelligence against humanity. Stopping their alliance requires trusting another AI, leaving the crew uncertain whether their apparent ally is helping or manipulating them.

Eliard and the Mercury Blade's crew search a secret outpost for a weapon that might save humanity. An alien organism capable of evolving at will and the arrival of another power turn their mission into a struggle to escape alive.

After escaping military and criminal pursuers, Eliard and the Mercury Blade's crew need money and protection. A job against the alien intelligence Alpha draws them into a conflict where a powerful military may be as dangerous as their target.

Human-alien hybrid Canis Borg and partner Sam Muraty investigate a vessel heading toward Earth. Discovering a plot to steal its technology forces them through the alien underworld toward a desert crash site, racing to prevent a wider disaster.

Captain Bayne returns from uncovering pirates at Ore Town to find Central Intelligence questioning his crew. Suspecting trouble within his own organization, he takes the Royal Blue on an unauthorized mission to discover who can be trusted.

Bounty hunter Raven Sharpe must rescue her abducted former husband Blake, then work alongside him to uncover a conspiracy. Their uneasy partnership tests old feelings and loyalties while a criminal threatens to use both of them for hidden purposes.

Eliard, Val and Irie accept what appears to be a straightforward theft aboard the Mercury Blade's latest adventure. When the job unravels, easy profit becomes a dangerous dilemma that could cost the crew their freedom, possessions and lives.

As Alpha works to restore Valyien dominance over the galaxy, the Mercury Blade's crew searches for allies. Val returns to his people hoping to persuade them to join the resistance, risking himself and his companions in the process.

Captain Eliard Martin seeks profit and adventure aboard the fast ship Mercury Blade. An attempt to outwit a criminal overlord leaves his crew fleeing with a dangerous alien artifact, pursued by military forces and criminals who want it back.

When an ally falls under Alpha's control, Eliard and Irie are stranded on a hostile world with little chance of help. Armed with uncertain alien technology, they must survive and carry their struggle back toward the conflict's origins.

Navy Ranger Captain Drummond Bayne is sent to impose order in the lawless reaches of space. A seemingly routine mission turns deadly, forcing his crew to adopt unconventional methods while trying to preserve the principles they once served.

Bayne and the Deep Blue's crew flee both bounty hunters and the Navy they formerly served. A mission reveals an extensive conspiracy, leaving them without refuge and forcing Bayne to confront a past he has tried to escape.

Galactic bounty hunter Raven Sharpe pursues criminals with help from her enhanced cougar. When her former husband disappears, a deeply personal assignment exposes complications beyond a routine bounty and leads her toward the hardest hunts of her career.

Raven Sharpe and Blake have resumed working together despite their history as former spouses. A disastrous hunt leaves them trapped underground without their technology or outside assistance, forcing them to survive when their intended prey turns against them.

This collection follows Andrea Dolan and her Space Marines through the fourth to sixth ESS adventures. Fighting the Arkana brings internal conspiracies, isolation in a nebula and unpredictable experimental weapons, placing humanity's defense under pressure from several directions.

After an illegal deathrace ends tragically, Eliard Martin is sent to Trevalyn military academy to learn responsibility. Instead of finding a clear path forward among the ruling elite, he encounters hostility, corruption and conspiracies that challenge his future loyalties.

Stranded on a frozen alien planet, Eliard and Irie use a stolen AI in an attempt to escape. Their struggle leads toward Old Earth and a Valyien warp gate whose destruction may be vital to protecting humanity.

Captain Eliard Martin enters an alternate universe dominated by Armcore's rogue artificial intelligence. Working with a different version of his crew, he must find a way to change the past and restore a future in which humanity can survive.

Solomon and Gold Squad discover that the alien invasion is rooted in a plan stretching back centuries. Their record of defending humanity offers little certainty as they confront a legacy capable of undermining even the toughest Outcast Marines.

Anders Corsigon's investigation of a strange murder expands into a series of assassinations protected by powerful imperial interests. In a galaxy shaped by genetic engineering, exposing the killer means uncovering secrets that could threaten the system he serves.

Alone in enemy territory, Solomon must decide whom to trust while the Outcast Marines face the consequences of an ancient alien plot. As the Ru'at's ultimate purpose emerges, escape becomes inseparable from the struggle to keep humanity alive.

Solomon and the Outcast Marines face a final desperate mission as the alien invasion's larger plan becomes clear. Preventing Earth's conquest demands that he confront both his past and his genetics while protecting his comrades and humanity.

Eliard Martin and the Mercury Blade's crew must travel through time and space once more to avert a devastating war. Their attempt to save humanity risks starting the very conflict they fear, or damaging the time continuum itself.

Anders and Dalia believed they had uncovered the key to a series of alien assassinations, but their situation becomes more dangerous. Imprisoned separately, they must escape and understand the wider threat before war overwhelms the galaxy they protect.

Solomon and Gold Squad are forced to separate while threats to Pluto and Earth demand action on multiple fronts. The Outcast Marines must confront an invasion and the consequences of their past without the security of remaining together.

Recovering on Ganymede after learning disturbing truths about the war, Solomon and Gold Squad suffer betrayal from a comrade. Barely escaping, they decide their best chance of saving humanity is to carry the fight directly to Proxima.

Anders and Dalia venture into dangerous remote space in search of a weapon against the Throne. Raiders, uncertain allies and other competing interests threaten their mission, making the search a test of survival as well as resolve.

Solomon, Jezzie and other prisoners accept conscription into the Outcast Marines rather than face death on a remote moon. Their new service sends them on expendable missions others refuse, where surviving may also mean saving the people who condemned them.

Bayne and the Deep Blue's crew find themselves trapped among enemies with no safe destination remaining. Forced into a battle that promises no clear winner, the captain must protect his people while confronting the possibility of losing his ship.

After narrowly escaping death, Anders, Dalia and their small team seek answers about the forces threatening the galaxy. Their investigation reveals that a different enemy deserves their fear, while an unexpected ally may become crucial to survival.

The defeat of pirate lord Parallax fails to bring peace when conflict erupts between the Federation Navy and the Byers Clan. Survivors must confront a wider war while preventing the remaining pirate lords from exploiting the chaos.

Back on Ganymede, Solomon and Gold Squad face rival squads, a mysterious illness and dangerous secrets from the past. A rescue assignment then sends them into another perilous situation, where their superiors' motives are far from clear.

Solomon and Gold Squad are sent to Mars after proving themselves through difficult assignments. Faced with incomplete intelligence, concealed agendas and unfamiliar players, the Outcast Marines must navigate a mission that could determine whether interstellar war breaks out.

Solomon's Outcast Marines are assigned to protect an Earth ambassador during peace negotiations on Titan. When the talks come under attack, they must identify the perpetrators while surviving on the prison moon they thought they had escaped.

Undercover Marine Will Boyd has earned his enemy's trust when a powerful alien force arrives. Conflicting orders and loyalties leave him deciding which boundaries to cross as a threat beyond humanity's internal war changes his mission.

With the forces of the Void close to controlling the galaxy, Wilco and Hepzah search for Drummond Bayne, a man believed dead. Their bitter history threatens the cooperation needed to locate the galaxy's possible last hope.

Anders and Dalia must rally humanity's survivors for a final confrontation with the Eternal Empress. Saving Jake from the purpose for which he was created becomes part of their attempt to stop a power threatening the galaxy.

Anders, Dalia and their companions stake the galaxy's future on Earth, humanity's ancient home now lost to history. Returning to the source of their civilization may offer survival, but its forgotten fate raises troubling questions about their own.

As humanity remains divided by war over order and freedom, an alien threat challenges both sides' view of the galaxy. A young Marine must reconsider old hatreds when human conflict collides with an enemy far beyond their expectations.

The Skarak invasion threatens both the Union and the Faction while Will Boyd's undercover identity approaches exposure. To escape and survive, he may have to trust an enemy whose motives are harder to dismiss than he expected.

After barely surviving an Exin attack, Dane Williams depends on experimental medication and a powerful robotic suit. Joining the Mechanized Infantry Division gives him a chance to fight the aliens while humanity faces the possibility of extinction.

Dane learns that human collaborators are aiding the Exin while a virus causes his nervous system to deteriorate. Leading a mission to protect key military figures puts his failing body and humanity's defense under pressure at the same time.

Repeated setbacks leave Andy and her Marines with few options as the Arkana close in on Earth. A desperate mission to the enemy's home world offers a chance to break their resolve before humanity's defenses fail completely.

Back with the Blue Star Marines, Will Boyd throws himself into increasingly reckless attacks against the Skarak. Finding something worth fighting for challenges his destructive course, but first he must survive the risks he keeps taking.

Anders and Dalia retreat to Ilythia, only to face overwhelming pressure from the Throne Marines. Protecting the Ilythian people forces them to consider an alliance with the Mondrauk, a mortal enemy who may be their only option.

The Eternal Empress unleashes a weapon capable of destroying planets, forcing Anders, Dalia and their companions to flee. Their escape takes them into a remote region known through legend, where finding new allies may determine humanity's survival.

As the Eternal Empress threatens to enslave the galaxy, Anders and Dalia find their allies' efforts insufficient to stop her weapon. Their remaining hope lies in reaching a place lost to time and seeking help from an old enemy.

Defeating the pirates leaves rival factions fighting over the galaxy, while an unfamiliar alien power suggests the deeper conflict has only begun. The remaining heroes search for a way to survive an enemy that appears impossible to kill.

Former friends and enemies return from the dead, changed in ways that make their loyalties uncertain. Hep and a new generation of captains must confront a widening war while deciding whom they can trust in the Deep Black.

Former space miner Holly Cropper now serves as a lieutenant in the Earth Alliance Marines. Responding to a mining vessel's distress call leads her small squad from an apparent pirate takeover into an invasion by ancient aliens.

Discarded genetically engineered soldier Carl Sebastian survives by hunting xeno-mutants and securing the medication that keeps him stable. A routine job reveals mutations spreading beyond expectations, forcing him to consider defending the humanity that abandoned his kind.

An awards ceremony for Holly Cropper and her Marines is attacked by the same kind of robots they recently defeated. Tracking down the machines becomes urgent as their assault threatens to spread across Mars and destroy the red planet.

With humanity's defenses shattered, the Council of Worlds seeks peace with the Exin. Doubting that negotiations can save them, Dane Williams and the surviving metal warriors launch a desperate mission to end the alien threat directly.

Dane and his mech fighters discover a portal that could take the war beyond the solar system. Capturing it requires defeating overwhelming defenders, but controlling the passage could change humanity's ability to resist the Exin invasion.

Dane's mech fighters arrive on New Earth and discover that its exploratory expedition has disappeared. Searching for the missing scientists and comrades exposes them to relentless hostile forces, turning a hoped-for new beginning into a fight for survival.

After escaping the Exin Queen, Dane returns with intelligence that could help humanity fight back. A survivor found in an alien warship's wreckage offers another opportunity, but a changing battlefield puts the planned offensive in doubt.

Separated from his fellow metal warriors, Dane is imprisoned aboard an Exin mothership before reaching an unfamiliar world of enslaved creatures. Surviving captivity becomes bound up with escaping his confinement and freeing the planet's other prisoners.

Using ancient alien War Mechas, Dane attacks the communications network coordinating the Exin forces. The enemy launches its own offensive, leaving both sides damaged and the Mech Fighters struggling to prevent humanity’s destruction.

Dane and the Mechanized Infantry Division take their mech suits into space to strike the Exin before another attack on Earth. Intelligence supplied by an alien promises an advantage, but trusting it could lead them into a trap.

Carl Sebastian joins the elite Pillarmen, but his old training clashes with the unit's methods and puts his place in question. Proving his worth requires uncovering a conspiracy and rescuing hostages from a powerful new enemy.

Holly Cropper's Marines travel to Pluto to recover and prepare for another mission, expecting Professor Crow to share crucial discoveries. A prison rebellion interrupts those plans, forcing them to protect scientists whose knowledge could help win the war.

Holly Cropper returns toward her home world after a corporation sells robots built with alien technology to the Sons of Thor. Confronting the revolutionary group means facing her own past while the original alien threat remains unresolved.

While overseeing defenses against the Thaal, Holly Cropper's Marines are sent to aid an attacked generation ship. Hundreds of passengers are trapped aboard the crippled Sun Kisser, leaving the squad to attempt a rescue under continuing assault.

Carl Sebastian receives a near-fatal dose of the substance responsible for creating super-soldiers and xeno-mutants. Surviving means learning to control its effects, while another demanding mission awaits if he can master what is happening to his body.

After repelling an alien attack, the Tin Man's crew faces a long journey to Earth because the jump gate has been destroyed. An elite Vhast warship pursues their converted mining vessel, threatening their chance to help defend humanity.

Carl Sebastian and his team are trapped aboard an abandoned ship where xeno-mutations are merging with the vessel itself. Escaping requires cooperation with stranded Palacian soldiers, turning an enemy alliance into their possible route to survival.

Holly Cropper and the Earth Alliance Marines search for technology that could help repel the Thaal after exposing a traitorous corporation. Locating a hyperspace gate becomes a race against its activation and the possibility of another invasion.

Captain Shoji Mora leads a mining and exploration expedition through a newly developed jump gate to Mars aboard the gigantic robot Tin Man. Encountering a superior alien armada turns the mission into an attempt to defend humanity.

Returning to Earth, the Tin Man’s crew finds an alien armada poised to destroy the planet. As human interests still place profit above survival, Shoji must assume command and organize a defense against the overwhelming Vhast fleet.

Yan and his crew of rogues discover an opportunity for a final, lucrative theft from the galaxy's most ruthless crime lord. Committing everything to the job pulls them into a scheme larger than the fortune they hoped to steal.

Jinx is captured, and the tyrant who seized her throne is coming to claim her. Yan and the resistance mount a dangerous rescue whose failure could destroy the rebellion along with their hopes of restoring the rightful queen.

Separated from her team during a full-scale invasion, Holly Cropper must return to the outcast Breakers she tried to leave behind. Working with them may be humanity’s only hope of overcoming its divisions and defeating the invading Thaal.

Yan, Jinx and their crew have finally found the peace they sought, but another conflict disrupts their new lives. Their next challenge is overthrowing the galaxy's most powerful empire, drawing the former rogues into a struggle for freedom.

Carl's team discovers that the xeno-mutation virus may let its alien creator control the creatures it produces. Protecting humanity now requires understanding that threat before the genetically modified soldiers themselves become instruments of the enemy they are fighting.

Holly and her team face alien invaders and hostile human factions as the Thaal threaten extinction. Defeating the alien Empress requires bringing rivals together, but their hatred for one another may undermine the cooperation humanity needs to survive.

Humanity faces annihilation, and Carl must consider an unthinkable response to the enemy. Leading the Pillarmen through the final confrontation, he risks becoming a victim of the xenovirus while trying to preserve the people he fights for.

Presumed dead after saving Earth, Shoji Moran returns to a galaxy enjoying an unfamiliar peace. Knowing it cannot last, he seeks approval for a rescue whose risks could shatter that calm and expose humanity to renewed destruction.

Carl and his team infiltrate the Palacian homeworld to capture its queen, but the mission goes wrong. A new adversary forces them to consider trusting their longtime enemy, even though choosing either side could doom humanity.

Carl Sebastian and his genetically enhanced unit arrive in the inner system for training and rest. An enemy surprise attack ends their break, forcing Carl to protect people who rely on his abilities while fearing what he has become.

Melias and his crew possess a weapon they believe can defeat the Lightbringers, but cannot operate it. They must protect their advantage and decipher its purpose before their enemies turn the galaxy’s best hope against them.

Earth’s defenders have struck the Thaal at devastating cost, leaving Holly gravely injured and her team scattered. As the human alliance fractures, a desperate plan must reunite the soldiers before internal conflict finishes what the invaders began.

The captured Palacian queen offers a way to defeat the xenovirus, sending Carl’s team back to its origin in enemy territory. They must seek a cure while suspecting their prisoner has withheld something that could change everything.

Shoji Moran struggles to reconcile leadership with responsibility for his family as the galaxy remains vulnerable. Protecting both may require restoring an alliance with the very force he defeated, testing his ability to move beyond an earlier victory.

Mercenary captain Melias Volery and his Sentinel crew investigate the ruins of the Prime Ones. Protecting clients for payment has prepared them for danger, but an ancient alien power threatens the galaxy on a scale they have never faced.

Melias and his Sentinel crew survive an encounter with ancient Prime One technology and acquire a powerful device. Learning how to use it becomes essential as the Lightbringer threatens the galaxy and the crew searches for a way to resist.

Reborn first as a robotic Marine and now as dragon-kin, Keel Hennity leads rebellious soldiers against the Imperium. With the Jaali apparently defeated, he must discover whether his small Orpheus force can challenge the Emperor and survive.

A dragon killed Keel Hennity before he was resurrected as a robotic fighter tasked with containing its kind. Now mysteriously bonded to one, he must turn a feared enemy into a trusted companion and powerful ally.

Declared a traitor, resurrected Marine Keel Hennity returns to Dracis, the planet where a dragon ended his first life. Freeing the Emperor’s hidden weapon may let him build a dragon force strong enough to challenge imperial tyranny.

Keel has transformed a former enemy into a dragon ally as the war against the Jaali intensifies. His small band of Dragon Knights must overcome old hostilities and confront a superior alien force threatening to eradicate humanity.

Keel Hennity and his dragon Darkwing struggle against the overpowering Jaali while their own forces remain disorganized. Rallying scattered renegades offers a chance to resist, but he must turn that fragile alliance into an effective defense of humanity.

Robotic Marine Keel Hennity receives orders to stop the Fire Brigade’s attacks on valuable cargo. Investigating the space pirates reveals something larger than theft, forcing his team to uncover the hidden threat before the galaxy suffers its consequences.

Melias and his crew possess devices that might defeat the Lightbringers, but the military they serve is hunting them. They must evade capture while fighting the Prime Ones and prove their loyalty before humanity loses its chance of survival.