Glynn Stewart

A homeworld is not always home.Family is not always blood.Enemies are not always who you expect. Captain Evridiki "EB" Bardacki wants nothing more than to quietly ride off into the sunset with his fianc , his crew, and his adopted daughter, Trace. But when a strange message brings them all to Trace's home star system of Icem, it turns out the fragments of the crime syndicate that kidnapped her have one last trick to play.An old enemy has betrayed their former compatriots and set into motion events that may allow EB to save hundreds of children like his daughter from the traffickers who stole them away. When that enemy shows up dead, the crew of Evasion must decide whether to chase the leads left by a dead monster or protect themselves.Those leads will take EB and Trace into the dens of crime lords, the homes of judges, the hearts of secret bases-and the presence of the foster parent Trace ran away from at the beginning of everything...

The star system of Apollo has fallen Her fleets are scattered and her enemies victorious.Apollo's last hope: an exile mercenary coming home at last Ace pilot Kira Demirci fled her home system of Apollo five years ago. Betrayed by her own government and one step ahead of enemy assassins, she smuggled a squadron of star fighters into the Outer Rim and forged a mercenary fleet of old friends and new alike.Many of the aces of Apollo's war against Brisingr weren't as lucky.Kira has a new home, but a scheme hatched by her enemies has brought her to the edge of her old stomping grounds. This close to Apollo, she's one of the first to hear the devastating news: Brisingr has achieved its ultimate victory and captured her home. To take a star system should be impossible, but the reality is clear.With family, friends and old comrades in the hands of the Brisingr Kaiserreich, Kira mobilizes her mercenary fleet to seek out the scattered remains of Apollo's fleets and allies.Even if she can manage the merely difficult and bring the broken factions together, the hard truth remains: Brisingr's victory was impossible. To undo it, Kira will have to duplicate it...

A failed attempt on the Mage-QueenAn old friend from the gutterAn enemy that should be dead...When a kidnapping attempt on the Mage-Queen of Mars is thwarted by luck, leaving thousands dead in its wake, Prince-Chancellor Damien Montgomery returns to field operations one more time. The evidence leads to one place: Tau Ceti.In Tau Ceti, Mage-Commander Roslyn Chambers finds herself without a posting as her teaching tour ends. Before she can take any kind of vacation, an old friend from her pre-Navy days shows up claiming to have information about the attempt on the Queen.Montgomery is the Mage-Queen's adoptive father and right hand man. Chambers is one of her few true friends. Neither will let the blood of innocents go unpunished.Neither believes the traitors called Nemesis are dead - but finding them may cost more than either of them can pay

To the north, the iceTo the south, the enemyIn the middle, her Republic...Coral Amherst is the middle child of a wealthy family, with fingers throughout the politics and laws of the magical Dalebloods and the Republic they lead. Skill and connections alike have propelled her to the highest ranks of the Republic's Navy.Now, duty inexorably drags her into a mission to learn the fate of a long-lost magical city, once home to many of the people the Dalebloods rule. Storms of dark magic drove the Seablood from their ancient city and to the shores of the Republic-and those same storms now assail the Republic itself An ancient threat rises beyond the ice of the northern waters and Coral Amherst will need every scrap of courage, honor, and magic she commands if she is to save the Republic

Trapped between warlordsThe choice is simple: Capitulation...or defiance From the Solar System itself, Imperator James Calvin Walkingstick prepares the remaining fleets of the Commonwealth for a desperate and brutal campaign to retake their borders and unify humanity once more.On the other side of the Commonwealth's seceding star systems, Dictator Kaleb Periklos gathers his fleets to avenge their humiliation. To the mercenary Admirals of the Stellar League, it doesn't matter whether the worlds they conquer still kneel to Terra.Caught in-between these two would-be conquerors are Admiral James Tecumseh and the newborn Dakotan Confederacy. Now guardian to a nation, Tecumseh faces enemies on all sides. He's left with only one answer true to his and his new nation's principles.Fight.

It is the first and final duty of any warship to put herself between the innocent... and the enemy.Henry Wong and Sylvia Todorovich have gathered the interstellar powers of the Ra Sector into a tentative alliance-an alliance that is tested by the return of the Sector's former rulers: the Kenmiri Remnant.The Sector's only hope of withstanding a genocidal faction of the Kenmiri is the Twelfth Fleet of the United Planets Alliance. But when Wong's scouting flotilla collides with the Kenmiri, he discovers they now have a weapon that could easily destroy Twelfth Fleet.Wong and Todorovich are stranded on the wrong side of a world the Remnant have burned, and they only have one way to meet their allies before it's too late.If Henry Wong is to save his people and his allies, he must take his ship on a deadly run into the hostile star systems of the Kenmiri Remnant: the very species he doomed to a slow death.

A crew, scattered across enemy linesA father, separated from his daughterA daughter who will not wait for rescueThe bounty for bringing down a major crime syndicate may have removed Captain Evridiki "EB" Bardacki's immediate financial needs, but no freighter captain wants to fly empty between the stars.A cargo mission to run a blockade seems within his crew's unique mix of talents, and he agrees to supply weapons to one side of a stalemated civil war in the Estutmost star system.The sudden collapse of the stalemate puts EB on the wrong side of the front lines from his adopted daughter.He took down a crime syndicate to protect her once-what's a planetary military or two?

A captain, exiled for disobeying orders in the heat of a battle against dragonsA shaman, desperate to keep her clan of sailors out of servitudeAn archmage who has foreseen the destruction of all worlds The elvar, with their long lifespans and rigid traditions, condemned Cat Greentrees for fleeing an unwinnable battle to bring news of a new threat. Cat plans to wait out his exile by drinking himself into a stupor, but the words of prophecy dog his heels. When one of the powerful and revered archmages-a short-lived halvar named Armand Bluestaves-receives a similar prophecy, Cat will need to decide whether to throw away what's left of his reputation to wage a reckless campaign into the void. In the void, there are no currents to propel ships. There is only hungry darkness and the ghosts of destroyed worlds. If they want to save all free var of the Spheres, they'll need to leave everything they know behind. But first, they need a ship...and a crew.

Beyond the borders of the ProtectorateBeyond the eyes of the Royal Martian NavyBeyond the reach of the Mage-QueenInnocents cry out for help - and Mars will answer When the Royal Martian Navy moved against reports of piracy in the Fringe Systems, the last thing Mage-Commander Roslyn Chambers expected was to find was a malignant remnant of the defeated Republic of Faith and Reason.Now the Royal Martian Navy knows their enemy and their Mage-Queen has charged them to bring the First Legion, conquerors of the hidden colonies beyond the Fringe, to justice. The Legion knows the RMN's tricks, though, and has cleverly concealed their tracks.As Chambers and the spy Kelly Lamonte sweep distant stars for the trail of their enemies, the fleets of Mars gather behind them-but the fate of millions may lie in the hands of a woman none of them have ever met.A woman the Republic already killed.

An empire broken by hubrisAn officer raised by chanceOaths that must be honoredOaths that must be betrayed Rear Admiral James Tecumseh barely survived his last mission against the Alliance of Free Stars with his reputation and life intact. Under a cloud of suspicion, he has been assigned to a quiet sector far from the front of the Terran Commonwealth's war with the Castle Federation and its allies.But when the Federation's Operation Medusa cripples his nation's communications and plummets an interstellar empire into silence, Admiral Tecumseh finds himself thrust into command of an entire fleet-and responsible for the safety of billions of innocent souls.Enemies internal and external alike challenge the nation he is sworn to serve. Duty and honor call him to action to protect the innocent, and the Admiral and his new fleet are called to war once more.But the darkest treason lurks where no one expects it...

A captain on the run from the horrors of his pastA girl on the run from the trap of her presentA ship that will bring them togetherCaptain Evridiki "EB" Bardacki was once a nova fighter pilot for a nation he truly believed in. Betrayal and failure sent him into exile and flight. Now owner-operator of the freelance star freighter Evasion, he treks the edge of human space, taking cargos that lead him ever onward-but there are lines he will not cross.When those lines are challenged, EB makes enemies of the most powerful crime syndicate for a hundred light-years. When one of their victims stows away on his ship, he finds himself pursued by an enemy with assets everywhere he turns.Caught between the devil and the deep dark void, EB has run out of places to run-but in a child looking to him for salvation, he may have found something to fight for CONTENT WARNING: This novel deals with themes and details of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Some soldiers are the shields of innocent soulsOthers are the fanatics of their causeAnd for them...no war is ever truly over Tempered on the anvil of the war against the secessionist UnArcana Worlds and tested against the evil of Project Orpheus, Mage-Commander Roslyn Chambers has risen through the ranks of the Royal Martian Navy to serve as second-in-command of one of their most prestigious battlecruisers, Duke of Magnificence.A desperate call for help sends Roslyn and her new ship deep into the frontiers of Protectorate space, where they discover that hold-outs of the UnArcana Worlds' fleets have returned to plunder innocent ships across the Fringe.To protect the innocent and serve her Queen, Roslyn Chambers must rise to the task before her. She must learn to command-both herself and a warship of the Mage-Queen of Mars

An offer that no one else could matchA mission that no one else could achieveAn enemy only a few know they share... Commodore Kira Demirci is now the commander of a small but powerful mercenary force-one of the most dangerous in the cluster of stars she now calls home. Her own actions have brought peace to the Syntactic Cluster, though, and a mercenary is in limited demand.A mutual interest brings her into the circle of the heir to the Royal Crest, a wealthy kingdom dozens of light-years away. Jade Panosyan has a nightmare brewing-and a plan to deal with it.In the Crest, a powerful political party beholden to Kira's own enemies is maneuvering to remove Jade's father before he can free a dozen star systems from the clutches of the Equilibrium Institute. If they are to fail and the Institute's plans be thwarted once more, Jade Panosyan needs someone to complete an impossible mission.The payment? The fleet carrier Fortitude, unmatched by any ship within a hundred light-years.The catch? Kira Demirci has to capture the carrier-from the elite forces of her employer's nation

An enemy on the run to neutral spaceAn elite squadron beyond the reach of any backupA secret deal that could doom the whole sector... When United Planets Alliance Captain Henry Wong and Ambassador Sylvia Todorovich attempted to bring peace to the Ra Sector, they turned to the Drifters for neutral ground. Instead, the nomadic spacers betrayed the summit and attempted to kill everyone there.With peace forged despite the Drifters' betrayal, Henry and Sylvia take an elite squadron in pursuit of the Drifter Convoy. Their enemies have friends at every turn, neutral worlds who will give them shelter-and if the UPA breaches that neutrality, everything Henry and Sylvia have worked for could crash down in flames.If the UPA is to keep the peace in the stars of a fallen empire, their diplomats must be untouchable, their honor unblemished. But as Henry's superiors prepare for all-out war, his ships fly ever closer to a deadly trap laid by an enemy that knows them all too well...

Peace forged on the edge of civilizationLies forged in the heart of mankindA legend rises to the final challengeExile to the Syntactic Cluster has been good for Kira Demirci and her friends. Once elite pilots of the Apollo System Defense Force, they now own the most powerful mercenary warship in the entire star cluster. Working with the carrier-for-hire Conviction and her Captain John Estanza, they have helped the King of Redward usher in a new era of hope for the entire Cluster.That hope is nearly shattered when Estanza's old enemies in the Equilibrium Institute strike directly at Redward's king. Revenge and money bring the mercenaries into an allied fleet-one intended to neutralize the last threats to the peace.But the Institute's plans for the Syntactic Cluster are intricate and deep. Even as the mercenaries and their employers move against the enemies they see, shadows gather in the Cluster, bearing whispers of a forgotten name: Cobra Squadron.