Michael Anderle

Junior year in a school for the magically gifted who like to color outside the rules. More freedom, more magic and more adventures for the young shifter.Amanda is up to the task, right?An internship with the Coalition is eating up her weekends and it's one big secret. Amanda can't even tell her friends. Easier said than done.Teachers are assigning more complicated magic that go on for weeks and it's not all fun and games. Get distracted and someone could get hurt.A new monster is on the loose and the Coalition needs Amanda's help to track it down to save another shifter. Amanda can't do it alone. Can she trust her friends to keep her secrets with the Coalition? Will they risk getting kicked out of the Academy?

One man leaves the life of a lawman behind him and works to clean up a new area in space.On the planet now known as High Tortuga, the mine workers are far too close to being slaves so the ruler of the planet shut them down.Except for the mine owned by Venfirdri Lan.He's taken his mine off the grid and decided to keep everything running. With no need to pay the workers, profits should be good.After all, who's going to stop him?He had no idea there was a new type of man working for justice on the planet.A man named Barnabas.In fact, he didn't even know who Barnabas was. But he's about to.Barnabas may not be Ranger One anymore, but one thing definitely has not changed: when someone screws over the powerless, Barnabas is going to bring the pain. With a bloodthirsty AI running his advanced spaceship, those who love evil should start looking over their shoulders.Life just got a lot more fun.---NOTE: This book contains cursing. Perhaps humorous cursing, but cursing nevertheless. If this offends you, I don't suggest reading this book.

Someone sent three fully armed ships to High Tortuga to back the slave-owners running the mines, and Barnabas and Shinigami are determined to find out who.And take them down.As they look deeper, however, they'll find traces of an organization that controls whole mercenary syndicates, industries, and even governments: the Yennai Corporation.They have plans for this sector of space, and they are not about to let humans interfere. So they're going to kill Barnabas, and they're going to make an example of the mine workers he freed.After all, who's going to stop them? Barnabas is one human in one ship. They're sure they can take him out....Some people never learn.NOTE: This book contains cursing. Perhaps humorous cursing, but cursing nevertheless. If this offends you, I don't suggest reading this book.