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Diplomatic Agent by S.E. Weir, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
How far would you go to discover the truth?Seraphina Waters embarks on her latest mission just as she’s on the verge of graduation.Armed with hard-earned skills, talent, and a mouthy companion, Phina pursues the identity of a traitor among the ranks of SpyCorps. Even if the answer could be a stab to the heart.Following shadows and rumors, Phina races time to discover the truth...

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Ascension by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The end is nigh, and there is one small group willing to put their bodies in front of the insane. Sometimes, it isn't good people doing bad things but rather bad people without a conscience making decisions for the rest. Decisions that Molly has been fighting for years...

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The Infinite and the Divine by Robert Rath
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
A Necrons novelTrazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner are opposites. Each is obsessed with their own speciality, and their rivalry spans millennia. Yet together, they may hold the secret to saving the necron race…READ IT BECAUSEExplore a story told across the millennia that delves deep into a pair of fascinating necron characters, their relationship and their plans for the galaxy...

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Battle for New Canaan - The Orion War Books 1-3 by M.D. Cooper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
***The drums of war thunder across the stars...***The final negotiations between the Silstrand Alliance and the Scipian Empire are complete, and it's time for Tanis and Sera to part ways. Sera must return to Khardine, where new challenges await, and preprations for the march on Airtha begin. Meanwhile Tanis turns toward the Praesepe Cluster...

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USS Hamilton: Miasma Burn by Mark Wayne McGinnis
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Captain Galvin Quintos had returned home to Earth soon after liberating Ironhold Station from a ruthless band of Pylorian pirates. But the Grish had been waiting for his transport ship—an attack he barely survived. Now, three months later, he’s still recuperating within the walls of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center...

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Odysseus Ascendant by Evan Currie
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
· 27 ratings
A mysterious entity may be the key to a starship’s survival—or a terrifying new threat—as the Odyssey One series continues… The Empire has set its sights on its next target: human Terrans. As effective allies of the Priminae, the denizens of Earth have proven themselves enemies to the Empire, and now the Imperial forces know more about the Terran home world than ever before...

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USS Hamilton: Ironhold Station by Mark Wayne McGinnis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The surprise attack within the Auriga Star System was worse than brutal, it was heinous—leaving the US-Navy's 3rd Fleet decimated. Thousands of crew are reported dead, including the ship’s Captain. Reluctantly, the young XO, Galvin Quintos, will be taking command of the fleet's crippled dreadnaught, the USS Hamilton, while doing his best to bring fleet survivors back to Earth...

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Liberty by Nick Webb
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
War. It rages across United Earth space, claiming millions of lives. The Swarm have returned, larger, more fierce, and more technologically advanced than ever before. The voice from Saturn's moon Titan claiming to be Tim Granger is warning humanity that this time, the Swarm may be unstoppable...

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Resolve by Jenny Schwartz
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The unmissable conclusion to the science fiction series that has it all—ancient aliens, rogue AIs, beleaguered royalty, semi-repentant pirates, and the chance to go where no humans have gone before (well, not for five hundred years)—all wrapped up in the possibility of a happy-ever-after for everyone (bad guys excluded)...

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Sector Force by Jamie Davis, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Tardex is safe and the Marshals of Lone Wolf Squadron stand down for some much needed rest and relaxation.Needless to say, the frontiers of the Etheric Federation don’t stay peaceful for long.The growing squadron must battle sinister forces threatening their part of the frontier.A delegation arrives from a neighboring system to request aid from Commander Beau Ward and his pilots...

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Committed by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Sean Royale is AWOL and in trouble. Molly’s Mom is encroaching on the operation on Gaitune. And the university is under threat from a new player in the system. Tensions mount as secrets unfurl, culminating in Molly walking down the aisle to try and save her ruggedly handsome friend...

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Invasion by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
When a blip appears on the Ogg-Estarian military radar monitoring the Outer System, things in the system are set to change forever. Molly and her crew face one of their biggest challenges yet, and the problem isn’t the supposed threat from outside. It’s from the planet itself...

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Subversion by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Molly learns a lesson or two when what should have been a routine mission turns into a comical farce. Meanwhile down on Estaria Director Bates puts together pieces of a plot which point to a reality check for the Federenials who always thought that the Federation would be there to protect them. At some point, Molly grew up and it takes a Grimes to show her, and her team, how Molly has changed...

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Old Enemy by Nathan Hystad
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
When all new threats are dealt with, old enemies emerge from the shadows. Dean Parker has brought his wife home, and he’s looking forward to relaxing and having a future with his family on New Spero. The Iskios vortex is gone, vanquished by the Hero of Earth, but unforeseen enemies linger in the universe. The Bhlat send a warning to the humans, one that suggests the Kraski may not all be dead...

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Fractured Union by Craig A. Falconer, James Patrick Cronin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
The long-awaited fourth book in the globally acclaimed Not Alone series is finally here!New to the series? Catch up on the first three books today with the best-selling Contact Trilogy box set, containing these books for one incredible price.Some doors aren't meant to be opened...

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Archangel Rising by Evan Currie
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
· 23 ratings
Archangel Squadron faces off against the forces of the brutal Protectorate to claim a prize, and save humanity, in a gripping novel of deep space jeopardy by the author of the Odyssey One series. At the helm of a commandeered freighter, Captain Steph Michaels has infiltrated the Free Star systems...

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Called by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
After earning access to a secret base beneath their safe house, Molly and her team are beyond excited by the "toys" they find. However, before they get to explore the super advanced tech and ships they find there, they need to pass one more test. A test which may be more convoluted and intriguing than they could possibly have imagined...

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Retaliation by Paul C. Middleton, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Thinking that Boris was dead - a mistake. Not making sure was a bigger one. They attacked his town – HUGE mistake. He knows who was responsible - for the attack, for the destruction, for the deaths. What comes next is justice, is RETALIATION! A third of his people have chosen to fight at his side...

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USS Jefferson: Charge of the Symbios by Mark Wayne McGinnis
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
· 15 ratings
"McGinnis has pulled another rip-roaring page-turner out of his hat," Ben StratAfter the recent near-destruction of the USS Hamilton, Captain Galvin Quintos has been lying low, getting the USS Jefferson ready for service. In the midst of refurbishing the vessel, he gets a call for help from his former XO, new starship captain Gail Pristy...

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Sanctioned by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
· 15 ratings
General Lance Reynolds needs Molly’s team for a clandestine operation. The only problem? It kicks off in one week, and the Syndicate needs cleaning up once and for all. So what is a girl to do? Go on the offensive, of course. But with the ultimate take down planned for the bad guys of Planet Estaria, you know it’s going to be EPIC...

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Reprisal by Charles Tillman, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
· 11 ratings
Ancient Warrior—Vampire—Queen’s Bitch...Akio accepted his Queen’s charge to stay behind and protect humanity from the Forsaken scourge.She never said it would be easy.An isolated police report about an island overtaken by feral, red-eyed creatures savaging humans spurs Akio to investigate...

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Lucky Justice: Lucky's Marines | Book Seven by Joshua James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
A simple mission gone impossibly wrong. Ambushed by an enemy that shouldn't exist, Lucky and his Marines must overcome powerful forces with limitless resources – and a princess with limitless ego. But Sergeant Lucky Savage has a powerful weapon of his own. Whether he can manage to control it is an open question...

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Ganesha's Spacemage by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Even a Spacemage must answer the call of a higher being.The Rawtenuga and Trixone wars are over, and Bud and his people have been relieved of the task of liberating the remaining Rawtenuga held planets.Jon and Jane have known about the Sanctuary system’s planetary alignment for some time.All they know is it points to the Outback system, where the Door to Gaia used to be...

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Rebirth by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
· 15 ratings
Molly is back from the dead. And now even more capable. But the transformation is not without more serious issues. Problems that not even ADAM can help with. Feeling cursed, she undergoes a Vision Quest. The rest of the team prepare for the General's clandestine assignment back at the base. But with the fate of the Federation hanging in the balance, a question arises...

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Challenges by Natalie Grey, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Tabitha has one night to challenge her past, and her belief in herself. Normally, a person would fail. However, Tabitha has an ace in the hole. A female vampire with hundreds of years of life and wisdom and she is willing to protect Tabitha and tell her the truth. Whether Tabitha wants it, or not. And whether the Vampire wants to hurt others is not in question...

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Terminus Cut by Rick Partlow
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Mercenaries with a mission. Logan Conner has given up the life of a warrior prince to become Jonathan Slaughter, a mercenary captain of a rough-and-ready band of mech-jocks for hire. Already legendary throughout the Periphery, their next job brings them head-to-head with the Jeuta, militant aliens who seek to loot and plunder isolated human colony worlds...

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Hero to the End by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
'If we fall, humanity is lost. Those are the stakes.' The Darkness War rages on, and a war weary Jonathon Hunter faces obstacles which only humans can create, while an enemy which keeps growing stronger continues to force him to retreat...

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Admiral of Gaia by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The Duchy of Hunter's Run has moved to the Gaia galaxy. But without its Duke. Twenty five billion people have appeared in the Gaia system unexpectedly, and only one person knows how or why. Yet preparations for fifteen billion exist, but only one person remembers the work being done. The one who knows, and the one who remembers, are the same, but Jane is not human...

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Kingdom of Hunter's Run by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The Owls are arrogant, utterly convinced of their superiority, and hardly worth being called a threat.Jane is fighting a war she doesn’t understand. But the Owls are a threat to everyone else, and Jane is yet to find out the real stakes involved in this war...

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Lucky Revenge by Joshua James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The universe if FUBAR. Just when things couldn't get any worse, humanity finds a way. The invasion force is in shambles. The universe is on fire. An ancient enemy is about to end mankind for good. Sgt. Lucky Lee Savage saw it all coming. He warned all the right people. He took all the right steps. Look what that got him...

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Lucky Empire by Joshua James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Mankind's luck has run out... As humanity rushes toward universal slaughter, the last Marine standing in the way of extinction is the least qualified one around — just ask him. With the conspiracy now fully in power, Lucky & Co. have turned into fugitives within the Empire...

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Hero at the Gates by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
There are some days when you should just stay in bed. Jon Hunter begins to realize this, as the consequences of saying yes, when he should have said no, begin to add up. The trouble with making tech advances, is someone will always come up with a counter eventually...

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Inheritance by Morgan Cole
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Trapped on a derelict space station, Jake must destroy an alien infestation—or he’ll never see his home again. Still reeling from the death of his parents, Jake finds a doorway to an abandoned space station in his grandfather's basement. But when he walks through, he discovers he's trapped there and he’s got company...

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The Final Call by Craig A. Falconer
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
They came in peace. But that was last time… As the world gears up for the first anniversary of Contact Day, Dan McCarthy’s year-long effort to stay out of the limelight collapses in an instant...

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The Regent's Shadow by Chris Wraight
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Book 2 in the Watchers of the Throne seriesA new day has dawned for the Imperium, but not everyone sees the light...

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Cascade by Joshua James
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
OPERATION CASCADE IS UNDERWAY.The changes on Enceladus are causing ripples throughout the solar system — and beyond. But the Artifact isn't done yet.The end is only the beginning...Cascade, the second book in the Saturn's Legacy series, is a sci-fi thriller full of mystery, intrigue, and epic action from the depths of the ocean to the edge of outer space...

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Artifact by Joshua James
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, SATURN HID AN ALIEN SECRET.IN 2065, HUMANITY WILL FIND IT.Lowell Carpenter is a disgraced Marine assigned to a remote US research station on Saturn's moon Enceladus, where scientists have made an extraordinary discovery in the ocean below.A special forces team, led by Lowell’s murderous former commanding officer, shows up to investigate...

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Cloaked by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
· 13 ratings
Not everything someone sees is real. Now, both sides of the story are tested by those who hide their reasons. For some, the reasons are good, for others not so much. Molly, Oz, Joel, Sean, Jack and the others are back in Action, supporting the Etheric Federation to stop a planet from being destroyed...

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Independence by Nick Webb
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
We hoped, desperately, that they came in peace. We were wrong. Thirty years after the Second Swarm War devastated Earth and its colonies, a powerful, mysterious alien ship has invaded our space. Entire planets are ravaged, whole moons shattered. Any starship sent against it never comes home...

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Alien Artifacts by Jasper T. Scott
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
· 13 ratings
A DEADLY MISSION ON AN UNCHARTED WORLD RIDDLED WITH ANCIENT SECRETSOn his last job, Cade Korbin lost his ship, lost his credits, and barely escaped with his life, but it’s not over. His enemy is still out there, nursing a decades-old vendetta that has yet to be quenched. Making matters worse, his guild is coming after him for breaking their rules...

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Penitent by Dan Abnett
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 13 ratings
Book 2 in the Bequin seriesAlizebeth Bequin's world has been turned upside-down. Now she must choose who she will follow as Inquisitors Eisenhorn and Ravenor battle to discover the secrets at the heart of Queen Mab...

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Retribution by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Sometimes, retribution is a slippery slope towards self-destruction. When the General Invites Molly and her crew to the ArchAngel, it's not long before news also arrives of a serious threat to the Federation. It falls to Molly and her team to deal with the threat, which winds up in an intense hostage situation...

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Bourne by Ell Leigh Clarke, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 11 ratings
The same military base where Oz was created witnesses the birth of another AI. The only problem?The military is the one who sets the ground rules. So, what is a new daddy AI supposed to do? Meanwhile, others are attacking the college, and Giles has to get his game on to protect his students - Space Archaeologist style...

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Ruins of the Earth by Christopher Hopper, J.N. Chaney
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
· 21 ratings
A secret buried in the Antarctic.A puzzle unsolved for thousands of years.And a Brooklyn-born Master Gunnery Sergeant who's royally pissed that he has to babysit the researchers sent to figure it all out.Patrick "Wic" Finnegan's last op as a Marine Raider before retirement sends him to the frozen Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands...

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City of Phants by Isaac Hooke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
They say fatherhood changes you. Rade returns his alien client to her secret base on the far side of the galaxy. When the ship arrives, his team finds the base destroyed beyond recognition. A dark discovery in the ruins leads the team to a new star system. There, Rade's client embarks on an important mission, leaving him and the team behind to guard valuable transportation technology...

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Strange Company by Nick Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Stack bodies, get paid, get to the ship.“If you can survive Reaper Platoon in the Strange, then Ghost or Dog Platoons will get you for their own. Best to steer clear of the freaks in Voodoo, kid.”Surrounded and outgunned, a group of private military contractors known as “Strange Company” find themselves on a remote planet at the edge of known space, and on the losing end of a bad contract...

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Revelation Run by Rick Partlow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Mission accomplished… until the enemy finds out. Logan Conner thinks his days pretending to be mercenary captain Jonathan Slaughter are behind him now that the ancient Imperial outpost of Terminus Cut has been uncovered. He’s returned to his duties while his brother, Terrin, leads a team of scientists studying the lost technology of the fallen empire...

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Click Click Boom by Jonathan Yanez, Justin Sloan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Riot has tasted the turbulence of the universe, and she loves it. With echoes of wonder and cries for help, swarms of claws and clans under siege, the vastness calls out for a hero. Instead, Riot and her War Wolves will rush in to save them. But after she's blown some stuff up...

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Jane's Christmas by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
The Hunter family stopped celebrating Christmas not long after they left Earth, nearly 600 years ago. So it comes as a surprise to Jon to be wished a Merry Christmas on what he otherwise thinks is just another day. As his grip on the day starts to unravel, he's confronted with a crew expecting him to know what is going on...

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Leader of Sector Ten by Timothy Ellis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
There is always a hidden threat.The Kingdom of Hunter's Run is preparing for its first high profile wedding.But first, there is the problem of the Brotherhood to solve, lest the bride be assassinated before she can walk down the aisle. Four sectors have come together to deal with the threat, but only Jane has the Intel and forces necessary to do the job. But all actions have consequences...

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