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A reprieve... That’s all the victory over the bug-like Seekers has given Tom Bradstreet and his crew of Marines and Space Force troops on Mars. Because the failure of his pawns among the Seekers has only made the creature known as the Monitor even more determined to destroy the Visitor and its crew of ancient alien Blessed, sleeping in stasis for tens of thousands of years. They created the Seekers as their children, their heirs, and manufactured the Monitors to watch over them.

Forced out of the Marshals and into the life of a freelance bounty hunter, Grant Masterson skirts the edges of the law, hunting down the ones responsible for framing him. When his latest hunt leads him to a conspiracy of cyborg cultists, renegade AI and genetically engineered psychics, Masterson may have to choose between his own survival...and his quest for retribution.

Two years after the end of the Psi War, Caleb Mitchell is Emperor in all but name, leading his armies on a crusade to cleanse the colony worlds and Earth itself of the last of the psionic madmen known as the Changed. But the citizens of the Commonwealth weren't the only ones devastated by the war; the criminal cartels in the Pirate Worlds are in chaos, their trade cut off, their resources running out. A young warlord named Amos Dobrev rises up to unite the cartels into a union they call the Syndicate. 

Tired of the Fleet Intelligence game, Jack signs up for a routine bounty hunting mission. A simple bag and tag is turned on its head when he uncovers evidence that links criminal activity with a company his family is heavily invested in…a company ran by his ex-fiancée and her husband.

For Jack Bennet, thwarting catastrophe on his home world came at a price he wasn’t willing to pay. Unable to navigate the pain, he falls into a destructive lifestyle until his girlfriend—and Fleet Intelligence handler—uncovers reports of a new imminent threat: one that can only be solved by a bounty hunter of Jack’s caliber.

Hausos ist eine friedliche Bauernkolonie. Einst von den Tahni kontrolliert, wird sie nun von einer Gruppe heimatloser Flüchtlinge und Kriegsveteranen bewohnt, darunter Cam und Vicky. Ihr Leben ist angenehm langweilig und ruhig genug, dass die Dämonen des Krieges in einsamen Nächten in Cams Albträumen herumspuken. Er bekämpft die Dämonen mit Willenskraft und Alkohol und ist entschlossen, diesen Ort zu seinem Zuhause zu machen.

To do the right thing isn’t always to do the easy thing, and for Commonwealth Ranger, Antonin Murdock, that’s a lesson he’s learning the hard way. After the cataclysmic battle with Sanyo Baretto’s forces, the true architect of the Pirate Wars emerges from the shadows. Now, Murdock’s on the run. Baretto’s pirates are as cunning as they are resourceful, the Commonwealth Fleet is a titanic juggernaut, and both are closing in fast. With few friends left, it’s a good thing the ones he does have are the best.

Grant Masterson has spent his whole life putting criminals behind bars, but after shattering every law to save the life of the woman he loves, he finds himself in the harshest prison in the galaxy, surrounded by hardened killers. He needs all his wits and skills just to survive...and when the sentient AI known as The Oracle, the head of the criminal network called Nautilus, infiltrates the prison and puts a price on his head, even the best bounty hunter in the galaxy may not be tough enough to live through it.

The greatest heroes of the Commonwealth are gathered in the breach for one last fight. The Transformation Virus rages through human space like a wildfire, changing ordinary men and women into psionic demi-gods, bent on destruction and conquest. The government has fallen, the military is helpless, and the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a collection of unlikely saviors.

Robert Franklin will stop at nothing to avenge the wrongs done to him by the US and Russia. Nate Stout and Broken Arrow Mercenary Force will do anything they have to do to stop him.

Captured by a man who was once the closest friend of Nate's Prime, from whom he was cloned decades ago, Nate is alive because Robert Franklin needs something from him, something he can use to topple governments and take control of a world gone mad. Once he has it, Nate may be expendable.

Sure, men fight for their beliefs, their country, and their ways of life. And often times the battles are hard fought and devastating. But more often than not, the outcome is decided by who has the better gear.

When an ancient evil threatens the galaxy, all that stands in the way is a bounty hunter with a plan… but no plan survives contact with the enemy. Jack walks right into a trap, inadvertently giving the Predecessor Cult exactly what they want; the means to unleash a devastating new weapon. Without immediate and decisive action, death and destruction will wash across the entire galaxy, wiping out human and Tahni alike. A threat of this magnitude cannot be thwarted by a lone bounty hunter.