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On Taurus, there's only one good way to die.On the bullfighting planet of Taurus, in the far distant future, a genetically-engineered race of half-man, half-bull stages ritual blood sacrifices to the gods-human viewers light-years away. Vizzer, the high priest who presides over the daily slaughter, loathes the fights and wants to end them.When news arrives that the humans have destroyed themselves in an interstellar civil war, he deposes the king...
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Some secrets can't be revealed.
Unjustly considered a bombing suspect, Tamara Keyes is forced to shed her fake identity. When confronted with being found guilty of the crime or admitting the truth, she remains quiet. The fate awaiting her is preferable to what would occur if her secrets were revealed.
Monte Simpson is helpless to save the woman he loves. Rather than supporting her, he surrenders into depression and guilt. As her truths are revealed,...
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As a castoff bride, she had no future. He was a hybrid-human who believed he was beneath her.
Laurel Brayton was raised to be one thing, a contracted bride. When her groom married another, her future appeared bleak. Victimized, she was determined to take control of her life despite the odds.
Gerard Holmes was in love with a woman he could never possess. When she came to him in desperation, he had no choice but to succumb to her wishes. Every decision...
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This bundle contains three books in the Project Enterprise series: Found Girl, Lost Valyr, and Maestra Rising.
About Found Girl:
She's an alien farm girl. He's a hotshot soldier. Can their love save an alien sanctuary from destruction? Found Girl is the sixth standalone book in the spectacular Project Enterprise sci-fi romance series. If you like cosmic battles, human-alien love stories, and imaginative future worlds, then you'll love Pauline Baird...
5) Ghost Fleet
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With the Lorilon war hopelessly dragging on, Captain Stuart Joseph commander of the Home World Third Fleet has taken a calculated risk, disobeying direct orders the fleet has destroyed the Lorilon stronghold of Tor Dunlaw. It is a risk he knows may cost him his command and his career.Yet even with this victory he knows his enemy still holds the upper hand in a ten year war that has nearly crippled and drained the resources of the Home World planets....
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The crew of The Occam's Razor, a deep space survey ship are scouting the far reaches of space for rare minerals. It's isolated and lonely, and the crew take comfort in who and what they can. After an airlock seemingly malfunctions, one of the crew is found dead. It looks like an accident, but when another crew member dies, appearing to have been strangled, Morag suspects a murderer is among them. But could it really be that simple?
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The vastness that surrounds me is beyond my measure. I stare into the void safely tucked away within my cocoon, that which shelters me from the cold expanse of the universe. It is my only salvation. I stare blankly at the panel before me strung with instruments that are nothing but a memory. They call out their song but I do not recognize their words.The warmth of the yellow star that illuminates my cockpit falls away leaving me in cold shadow. I...
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What happens when a cadet defies tradition in the name of duty? A young cadet rebels against an arranged marriage to a privileged suitor. Desperate to remain a soldier, she confronts corruption within the military and a brutal encounter with the infamous Manderian Secret Service, the Black Squad. Join her in a fight for justice.
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Where do you hide in space?On the courier ship ferrying The Hero of Ararat, the Dragonkiller and their daughter, Ekaterina 'Kat' Avondale, from the Saurian homeworld back to human space, newly promoted third-shift commander Stephan Ocasek has found a sneaky ion trail. They are being followed. No, not followed, hunted.Not by Saurians, since they're flying an honor escort. Not by humans, because the engine signature is all wrong. When they detect a...
10) Colossus
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"...a spine-tingling sf novel certain to wow readers who want to explore sentient AI, parallel universes, paranoia, and sustaining human consciousness for generations to come." - Booklist
For fans of psychological SF novels like THE GONE WORLD and SIX WAKES
Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish-a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of...
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Part robot, part slave, and all human, Felicity has been working as a courtesan to pay off her debt to the person who saved her life.But when four men from her past come to her, she may find another way out.~~~~~This is a novella set in The Infinity Project universe. It also includes the special Christmas short story The Five Rings of Manides.
12) Collision Course
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Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together.
Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living as mercenaries on Metra Litko, an independent world on the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them.
Anjali and Mikhail are working a routine bodyguard job. But things quickly go awry, when an assassin...
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Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together.
Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living on the independent worlds of the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them.
Mikhail is on his way home, an anniversary present for Anjali in his pocket, when he suddenly finds himself irresistibly drawn...
14) Haven
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One stupid decision leaves Cressida stranded on Haven, an uninhabited planet on the edge of nowhere.
But it isn't totally empty.
And Lukas, the cyborg living there in secret, is fascinated with her and has no intention of letting her leave.
15) Star Mole
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Gerald the star mole is living large. All the nice fresh stone-free dirt he can dig in, all the worms he can eat, and no predators to raise his stress level. Unless you count the funny people in white coats with their odd penchant for sticking pins in his head. But set against all the bennies, Gerald dismisses this as a First World Problem.And then, Ragnarok. The white coats load Gerald onto a very long rail gun and shoot him off into space. All but...
16) Redshift
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On the fringes of the Joias System, a portal opens to the unknown, portending humanity's salvation-or possibly, its utter destruction.In the far reaches of the Rim Mountains, itinerant field-scientist Aran Romeu is searching desperately for the cure to an incurable disease-one that's slowly killing his best friend. He's sworn to do whatever it takes to find it. But when the portal opens, and an alien capsule arrives through it, he realizes that 'whatever...
17) The Trials
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A hot-headed fool. A master of none.Now, he's been called to save the world. We're screwed...Conner would trade his left kidney to have his old life back. Back when the most complicated part of his day was deciding which trail to run.Because breaking one woman's heart while pursuing another, finding a lost dragon race, and withstanding the trials that make the latest reality TV competition show look like a joke make him want to wish it all away. Backed...
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VENGEANCE SHALL BE THEIRS…Three years after the massacre of their families on Bromhead, the hard-bitten mercenary unit Hansen's Roughriders have already exacted revenge against Taurian Concordant forces on the planet Lindsay. But that is only the beginning.When the Second Taurian Lancers-the unit responsible for the massacre-lands on Midale to conduct a supply raid, they run into Colonel Wolfgang Hansen and the entire Roughriders force-all out for...
19) The Flightline
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Follow the military career path of Max Morgan, an Avionics Troop performing maintenance on bombers and cargo ships. See all the struggles, shenanigans and memories as all his fellow maintainers attempt to succeed on the Flightline. Feeling trapped on a space station far from home, they do all they can to maintain the spaceships and endure the insanity of it all. Experience the madness of roll-calls, redballs and deployments to foreign moons. No career...
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The Veneer Empire is collapsing. A hundred years ago the Veneer Empire seceded from the UPA and entered into a secret alliance with the Unity. Today, the seeds of the empire's collapse have taken root and are blossoming into a chaotic darkness that threatens to destabilize the entire region. The Veneer home world has suddenly gone silent. An entire planet with billions of inhabitants and there is nothing but silence. Without the guidance and leadership...
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