Steven L. Hawk

Max Tivoli has a broken heart, a cold gun, and a compelling desire to end it all. What he doesn't have is the ability to pull the trigger. At least not yet. In a last ditch effort to save himself, Max sells everything he owns and buys a bicycle. With no plan, no schedule, and no destination, he abandons his home and pedals away from his old life. Paper Hearts is the story of one man's struggle to escape his past, find redemption, and maybe-just maybe-discover the will to live again."He was an out-of-gas soul, sputtering through life, running on fumes. He wanted to be done with it all, but the hand holding the gun, with its saliva-coated muzzle, dropped limply into his lap. With a tired shrug, he slumped to the side, curled into a ball, and closed his eyes. A nap would be fine. Perhaps he'd care enough to try again tomorrow."

When a hostile race invades Cerbius, a distant planet on the very edge of Alliance territory, Captain Eli Justice fights to defeat them at the point of attack. Meanwhile, his father, General Grant Justice, commander of the Alliance military, implements a plan to defeat the invaders on their home planet. Unfortunately, danger doesn't always come from the outside. On Earth, everything the Alliance has built is threatened by the politics and treachery of newly elected leaders. Working together against common enemies, foreign and domestic, father and son must overcome time, distance, and overwhelming odds to save the Alliance and all of the races that count on them for survival.Welcome to the shout.

Eli Justice is a highly decorated captain in the Shiale Rangers. His training, instincts, and experience set him apart from other soldiers, and enable him to succeed where others fail. When his ship gets shot down during a routine scouting mission, Eli finds himself stranded and alone on a dangerous, untamed world. Reports of the planet being uninhabited were obviously wrong, and the need to alert the alliance of the hostile presence is critical. In order to alert the alliance, though, the ranger first has to survive whatever the planet can throw at him. Welcome to the jungle.

The end of the world looks a whole lot different when you're eight inches tall. Cheech and Daisy are small, spoiled and cute. Unfortunately, spoiled and cute are overrated when a pack of flesh-eating creepers are chasing you through the streets. Being small? Well, that might help.A pair of seasoned Army Rangers, a teenaged Latina, a deranged serial killer, and two lost Chihuahuas come together to match wits and battle a city full of the undead. Oh, and be forewarned: This ain't no cutesy Beverly Hills Chihuahua-type story. It's a straight forward, blood and guts, in-your-face post-apocalyptic zombie tale.