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Ensign Stone's goals were to make his way in the Empire's navy, make his family proud of him, and make love to his fiancée. No matter which way he turned, someone was conspiring against him. Disgraced and humiliated, he is court-martialed, discharged, and abandoned. Accepting what he thinks is a lowly busy-work position on a beat up old family business space freighter travelling at the edge of human space, he hopes to earn back the trust and respect he lost.

The war for control of Faeland has begun, but the victors may very well have nobody to rule over once the battles come to an end. With the four World Beasts now battling, the land itself is splitting apart, forcing the dwarves and elves from their homelands as they march ever eastward to confront Shedra and the Arcane Kingdom. Sarah’s return doesn’t solve all of Morgan’s problems. On the contrary, he now knows he’s made enemies of all of the agents of Chaos.

Alex is a Glitch Hunter, member of a house of monster hunters that possess mysterious bracers allowing them to see the world with the interface of a video game. Even with the edge that offers, most Glitch Hunters die young, thrown by quests into areas of deadly conflict. Alex's first quest draws him to a city with a grisly past, and unless he can discern truth from lies in time, an even darker future.

Dale wanted to do more than survive as a dungeon core. His experience with the gods made it clear that with power, he could do as he pleased, and without it, he was simply a toy of the powerful. Unfortunately, it isn't just the gods who have plans for the Traveling Dungeon. Follow Dale as he tries to create his own little world, study magic, enchant devices, and create challenges for the gods and an (Arch-Mage). All while trying to keep Miss Blue-Box happy.

In a world divided into four territories, each with their own unique sun, color, race, and culture, Esh is born and abandoned in the cruelest of all. The red territory of Reah. A land in which every day is an absolute struggle for survival. One day, an elderly man discovers the boy mortally wounded on the side of the ash-filled streets and takes pity on him, a kindness unknown in the land of Reah. Then, using violent and unorthodox training, he teaches the boy the skills necessary to endure the harshness of the territory. Skills of a master assassin. Combat. Sorcery. Alchemy. All is going well until a dark and forgotten energy finds its way into young Esh's body. Wreaking havoc on his mind, it threatens to drag his spirit into darkness.

Stone's fist, secure in the combat suit and hidden by camouflage, impacted the Hyrocanian mouth before it closed around the baby. Stone grabbed the helpless piglet with his free hand and tossed it to a startled female. The piglet, the last of her kind on the delivery shuttle, grabbed the baby and ran. Stone twisted his fist, trying his best to break every tooth in the Hyrocanian's mouth. Suddenly, his fist broke free from the shattered teeth. Opening his fist, he felt something soft and squishy at the back of the alien's throat.

No-one comes in peace. Every being in the galaxy wants something, and is willing to take it by force. The Hedalt were no different. They came from the distant reaches of the galaxy to wage war. Their fleet wanted to take Earth for its prize, but we were ready. We were stronger. For years, we fought them, ship-to-ship, until we scattered their forces and drove them back. Pursuing the Hedalt fleet to their home world, we delivered the decisive blow. We nuked their planet and wiped them out for good. Or so we thought.

Hudson Powell and Tory Bellona are the galaxy’s top Star Scavengers. Travelling to distant planets, they hunt for valuable artefacts inside the wrecks of giant alien starships that mysteriously lie crashed and broken on every portal world.

Petty Officer Tanner just wanted to finish the patrol and get back to normal. That, and as far away from the enticing Miss Nora Johnson as possible. All that changed when the ISS Intrepid was threatened with destruction and he quickly became the only thing between these civilians and instant death. After crash landing on the strange new world, Petty Officer Eric Tanner had to keep these civilians alive until they were rescued.

Apophis, the reborn god-king of the Aternien Empire has unleashed the Neural Nexus, demonstrating its terrifying ability to destroy entire planets. General Carter Rose, along with Master Commander Carina Larsen and the crew of the Longsword Ascalon, are still reeling from the weapon’s apocalyptic power. Joining forces with the Old Aterniens is Carter’s best chance of formulating a defense, but Apophis is not his only problem. Any alliance with the Union’s old enemy is certain to draw the ire of Cyrus Duvall and his powerful Humans First movement.

After Dex Walsh rescued the Warrior-Medic Frida and the Battle-Marine Hiko, and they together saved a community of mutated beings from a sudden daemonorg attack, they’re now finally able to escape the filthy Prison-Lab. Having felt the daemonorgs’ macabre ingenuity and brutal power on their own bleeding bodies, Dex and his companions see only one solution to stopping these horrific beasts from devouring the entire planet.

Starting out from Deimos Station near Mars, Hudson and Liberty take the Orion to a new portal world. But Logan Griff, and mercenaries Cutler Wendell and Tory Bellona, are still chasing them. This time, Griff wants more than just their heads. He wants the secret to finding new portals, too. Captured and imprisoned, Liberty must use all her skills and wits to escape a life of service to the Council, the galaxy’s deadliest criminal gang. But she discovers an ally in the most unlikely place.

Castle Sardonis is surrounded by enemies on all sides and dangerously short of supplies. When a needed shipment goes missing the party finds themselves on the high seas beset by pirates and seeking the Goddess of the Sea. New loot, new levels, and new mysteries to unravel as more is learned about the world. Immediately following the story from Dungeon Crawl, the focus remains with the same group and focused on their struggles within the Crucible Shard.

In this fifth and final book in the series, Dex and Frida dive back into OVERTAKEN ONLINE, after a month out in the real world. They are met by a realm in shambles. Frequent tornadoes plague the planet, leaving destruction in their wake; the daemonorgs are amping up the pressure after the loss of the Colossus; and decisions made by Commander Darius while Dex was away have massively derailed their chances of winning the war.

With Goliath continuing its rampage through the network of portal worlds, Hudson Powell and Tory Bellona go on with their search for Logan Griff and the crystal. But first they must embark on a final dangerous relic hunt inside a crashed alien wreck. After a cunning betrayal, Logan Griff finds himself running for his life, while murderous mercenary, Cutler Wendell, forges a new partnership. Meanwhile, Morphus and Liberty are en route back to Earth with a weapon to help defeat Goliath. But without the crystal the odds of victory are slim.

Mark's job seems pretty dull, working as an investigator into crimes committed against Church property, theft of holy objects, vandalism; nothing terribly exciting but he does get to travel the world. That's just the window dressing. Mark does work for the Church, but as an elite member of a thousand year old secret society that hunts down devils, demons, and other evils. His job is not just to find them, but to remove, dispel, or kill them: He's on the front lines of the secret ongoing war between Heaven and Hell.

A ruthless alien enemy has returned, but despite overtures of peace, Commander Dalton Reeves doesn’t believe a word that escapes their thin, slug-like lips. War is coming and in order to unite the six realms against a threat bigger than any faced in history, he must recover an ancient and famous warship.

Dex, Frida, Hiko, and Tasha successfully opened the Godmadrigan Army and the Celestial aliens up to forming an alliance against the Daemonorgs. Now they’re assigned the crucial mission of eliminating key parts of the daemons’ on-ground strongholds, since weakening the beasts’ parasitic grip on the planet is needed to enable their long-awaited defeat.

Kicked out of the Relic Guardian Force, Hudson Powell has started down the path to becoming a relic hunter. Fortune awaits inside the mysterious, alien hulks found on every planet throughout the vast network of portal worlds. The only problem is, he’s broke and he doesn’t have a starship.

We’re finally ready to take the war back to the Hedalt. But they’re coming for us first, and in force. Yet the Hedalt Armada, led by High Provost Kagan, is far from our only problem. I am Captain Taylor Ray. On the eve of war, a new commander threatens to derail everything that Commander Sarah Sonner and I have fought for. While Sonner becomes locked in an internal power struggle, my unique crew and I must go rogue and take out the source of the Hedalt’s supremacy - the mysterious Nexus.