Akash Mahendra will stop at nothing to save his province.

House Mahendra is caught in the crossfire of war—craters litter their fields, citizens flee. As his father steps back, Akash must forge alliances to save his people.

Arcania Leigh-Van will do anything to get what she wants.

House Leigh-Van is wealthy and safe, its priority arranging Arcania’s marriage. She has her pick of suitors, but the one she wants believes them ill-matched.

Akash has known Arcania since childhood and doesn’t trust himself to provide for her in his war-torn province. He wants to shield her from it; she insists he deserves to prosper, and means to help him however she can.

As rebellion stirs, Akash weighs his morals against his people’s future, while Arcania questions her loyalty to the king she’s always called family. Caught between war and rebellion, they make a fateful promise.

What is a promise worth?

Twenty years of war have exhausted soldiers, civilians, and nobles alike. Towns grow more desolate while war technology advances, leaving the rest of Kaier behind.

Felix—heir to House Leigh-Van—resents the war that claimed his sister's life and his father's ethics. Still, he follows orders and is content to remain equal among his fellow soldiers.

When a routine repair stop puts Felix at the center of a brutal attack on civilians rather than soldiers, he struggles to keep separating his ethics from his duty. He's privately ambivalent but publicly supportive of his uncle, the king, as whispers of an underground rebellion begin to circulate—one gaining enough traction to make a real play at ending the war.

But when the resistance's own tactics start claiming lives as fast as the war itself, Felix begins to wonder who will survive to see the peace they're fighting for.

Mike Richards is an ordinary teen—until he overhears a shocking secret: aliens are real and living among us. With his friends Jenny and Dennis, he uncovers hidden civilizations and ancient technology while racing to stop a deadly alien plot.

Half a million years ago, a dying civilization left something behind. An alien structure at the edge of the solar system begins broadcasting, Commander Frances Drake of the science vessel Hawking is sent to find it. What she finds isn’t a derelict. It’s a machine the size of a city, still running, and it has been waiting. Waiting for her.

In the heart of the Iron Spires, debt decides everything.

The Copperveins are cyborg soldiers owned by the Ministry. They’re sent into ruined territories to protect its harvests and work toward freedom. Every damaged part adds to the bill.

Their captain, Silas, survives on a pneumatic heart the Ministry can stop at will. Garrick carries his daughter’s broken music box. Tess calculates their chances of coming home. Pip jokes when those chances get worse. Keeping them alive matters more to Silas than following orders.

When they uncover plans to poison the forests, the crew turns to the people they were sent to fight. The Root could free them from the Ministry’s control, but accepting its help will change their bodies forever.

Silas and his crew must decide whether they are just gears in a machine or the force that finally breaks it.

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Two centuries after the Confederation staved off an invasion by the robotic Locusts, Captain Jack Romanoff faces mandatory retirement from an ever-shrinking Navy. Actions speak louder than words. The Confederation doesn’t think the Locusts are coming back.

But what if the politicians are wrong?

Snared in a scheme he doesn’t fully understand or trust, Jack gets his promotion, but it comes with a catch. With a crew of rejects, he must restore the most powerful warship humanity has ever built, after centuries of neglect and decay, before time runs out.

If he fails, humanity might not need to worry about history repeating itself ever again.

The machines killed most of humanity. For the survivors there is one way out: upload your mind and live forever in a digital paradise. Ray Morrison, a burnt-out veteran with nothing left to lose, says yes. Inside, he discovers the system is quietly erasing the people it was built to save, and that the only one who has noticed is Sya, a strange intelligence born within the machine itself. Their plan is impossible: move every uploaded mind out of the failing computer and into the Earth itself, its rocks, water and trees, turning the planet into an indestructible ark. The man who built the machines that ended the world intends to stop them, and he may be right. Literary science fiction for readers of Ted Chiang, Blake Crouch and Kazuo Ishiguro. 4.3 stars on Amazon. $0.99 for a limited time.