Michael Mounts

For Commander Black, and her Soldiers, the work never ends. They find themselves kept busy very well. Projects ranging from long planned creative efforts to sudden assaults. They move house and try new jobs of every kind. It's all a learning experience for Old Mother Black, and she takes to the lesson plan with zeal. Larger struggles are looming, yet the present list of tasks is still undone. Questions of poor conduct must be answered and the definition of life itself must be worked out, or at least they have to try.

The Gentle Stepper returns to the Empire, in power and glory, only to fall victim to all the machinations and manipulations men and women can muster. Striving to meet all the obligations she takes upon her shoulders, and meet those duties laid upon her by others, Ju-Dan, the Gentle Stepper bears it all with grace, poise, and a blood-stained sword in hand. No one can stand against her when our Gentle Stepper turns all her fury against whatever impedes her, and nothing can endure her wrath when it is unleashed in its fullness.

The Tow Company Gothic is on the road and looking for trouble There are enemies to be brought down and problems to be solved. No one is safe once the Tow Company turns your way Vampire Hunters are on the prowl and terror follows in their footsteps. The table of organization is being shaken, the chain of command is in flux, and nobody knows who will come out on top, not once the horrors of the Hometown are settled

Vacation time Honeymoon time The Soldier Girls get the time off they so richly deserve Nothing can go wrong now. Nothing bad can happen at this vacation resort Six weeks of nothing scheduled, nothing other than pool parties, dinner with a show, going to the motion pictures, and lots of fun. No new surprises as far as the eye can see. Octavia Pomona is bound and determined to see to it her girls get the time off they deserve. She won't let anything stand in the way of their good time. Everybody plans to pursue their own favorite, wholesome, activity Girls go shopping, and the boys stand by holding the bags. The worst danger is overdrawing their accounts. There will be sore feet from all the shopping sprees Get ready to have a great time Possibly the final book in the Octavia Pomona series, the author plans to move on to other projects, looking forward, and backward. Open projects must be completed, and new projects crying out for their time will be looked into. No one can say what the future may bring. Simply face it head on.

The worlds of politics and business never slow down, change is constant, and people surrender their liberties willingly when fresh bread is offered freely, and their ticket to the circus is paid for by others. The pathways to restoring a republic are often circuitous, and arduous. Octavia Pomona and her Soldier Girls are given the mission: strike the coup de gr ce, thus restoring liberty. A cinema motion picture must be made, and a king must be brought down. The Soldier Girls go to work, and even while life is changing, they soldier on, doing the bidding of their mistress, and facing the enemy head on. The Ninth Novel of Octavia Pomona and her Soldier Girls takes the small troop far and wide, down many roads, and to a whole new world. Don't bother asking the name, life goes on. Alexander was right: worlds are to be conquered, and that's what the Soldier Girls do, conquer a world under a fresh sunrise as they pin for the vacation they never seem to really get, at least not for a long while. Old friends are revisited, new skills are learned, dinner parties are filled with intrigue, and the Soldier Girls face it with a determination to overcome all obstacles. Will the cost be too high? Will the wear and tear be too much? People are fragile, and they can break when you bend them too much.

Paradise has been destroyed. The Great War, the death it brought, and the loss that you can never forget. Commander Black travels in time to save everyone she loves. So much fighting, so much death, and so many trials, never has this small band of soldiers faced so much tribulation. The Apocalypse is real, and it takes the form of men bound and determined to kill each other. Major Octavia and the Soldier Girls can stop it, maybe. They start a propaganda effort that sprouts into so many other, nefarious actions. The life of a spy, a mercenary, it has its cost. Midnight missions, secret orders, and enemies that can't be counted. There might be no end to the killing, and all of it to save the lives of a few dear people. The worst horror of it all, the face of the true enemy might never be seen. Maybe, you can never save paradise.

Never get off the boat, and never split your team. Octavia Pomona breaks every cardinal rule when she is given double objectives, and naturally the team thrusts themselves into peril with eyes wide shut. Blazing forward heedless of any danger, they confront death itself without fear, even acting on the slightest impulse of rage. Assassination and piracy are the order of the day, and the new rules it seems everyone must learn to live by. Leave and liberty are canceled for everyone as the wolves step out of the darkness, brazenly entering the light. The predators are ravenous this go around, relishing the taste of blood, and lusting after the flesh. Day or night, everyone is looking to settle the score, and take their pound of flesh. No one will be visiting the opera house while the range war is in full flame, and guns are blazing. Lives are taken, people are left for dead, and bodies are deserted where they fall on the prairie. Keep your head down, and you might come out the other end alive.Spy rings, the super-rich, depraved deviancy, and over-clocked killing-machines all run rampant in the Fifth Novel of the Mercenary Octavia Pomona.

Major Octavia Pomona and the Soldier Girls are back. The leading special operations unit in all interstellar trade war are returning to the battlefield of the future, and no prisoners are being taken. Well, taken long enough to put the fear of God deep down inside...Jungles, desert canyons, and the void of space itself is where the Soldier Girls must fight, and they take a brutal toll on the enemy everywhere they go. This time the going is harder because the boss is watching, sometimes just over their shoulder. The Soldier Girls are sent to make a pitch to a Queen with an ego bigger than her whole planet, and she's already entertaining another sales staff when the heroines arrive. Knifes come out, guns go off, fists fly, and bones are broken. And that's all before the army of she-devils arrive close a deal of their very own. Space ships and Starfighters fly dueling for rights to the sky, and people go limping home. Octavia and her band won't be on the losing end, yet they probably won't get home without a scratch. Octavia Pomona, driven to win at all costs cuts down her enemies with extreme prejudice and no remorse. When she finds herself on a bleak planet with little options, she does what she does best, eliminate her enemy. When her unit is captured and all seems lost, she finds a way to achieve the rescue. Major Octavia Pomona, the most hardened and deadly mercenary of the twenty second-century, and the most dangerous enemy anyone ever could have.

Major Octavia Pomona finds herself fighting with her every resource to not just win the battle at hand, but to survive every moment. Cagey, competent enemies inflict massive damages, and stay ahead of the game until the last move. Only at the final moment is there a possible taste of victory and it's not without a terrible price. There will be blood on the deck, the greatest death toll, and hearts broken for the pain and injuries suffered. It may have all started from an act of vengeance, yet it ends with worlds burning and even the rich and powerful are not safe from the hand of death.In the second novel of the Mercenary Octavia Pomona, the super-spy and secret agent for hire is facing the most deadly challenges in non-stop action. Brutal struggle is at hand with no rest in sight. Major Octavia must fight relentlessly, and lead her forces to victory or terrible death.