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Lost and cut off from Earth, the crew of the starship Valiant seeks a way home. In the 11th book of the Star Force series Cody Riggs collides with the overwhelming power of the Ancients. They fly incomprehensible ships and consider humans to be curiosities. Caught between ghosts of the past and demons of the present, Cody is abandoned by everyone. His girl, his crew, and even his ships change sides, exiling him in the cold depths of space.

Andrew Wiggin is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.

Isaac Gallant is the heir apparent to the First Admiral. Unwilling to let his mother’s tyranny stand, he joins the rebellion and leads his ships into war against the might of his own nation. Betrayal and failure, however, see Isaac Gallant and his allies captured. Rather than execute her only son, the First Admiral instead decides to exile them, flinging four million dissidents and rebels through a one-shot wormhole to the other end of the galaxy. There, Isaac finds himself forced to keep order and peace as they seek out a new home without becoming the very dictator he fought against.

Part Fistful of Dollars, part The Martian, The Exile is set 150 years in the future as Mars, a barely habitable world, struggles with widespread corruption and brutality. In a desperate bid to find a way home to Earth, Bryce—a disgraced federal agent exiled from Earth—finds herself forced to join the local police force, while navigating dangers from every angle as she discovers there is little difference between criminals and law enforcement in this frontier world.

Two irresistible forces are rushing together to crush the planet Grayson between them, and only one woman, uncertain of her capabilities, weary unto death, and marked for murder -stands between her adopted planet and its devastation.

Three bloodthirsty guilds that control the decaying corner of space called the Reaches. This balance of power exists at a tipping point. One nudge and chaos reigns. Sela Tyron is willing to supply that nudge to help her partner with an important rescue. Even if it means trusting a shifty criminal. Or turning herself into a power-armored assassin.

Sebastian's life was destroyed in mere moments. He's catapulted into a cat and mouse chase to avenge his murdered parents and regain his rightful place as Earth's ruler. By using experimental tech from his orbital palace he's guided to old allies that become more than anything he could have expected. Some of them are talented and gorgeous too, committed to helping Sebastian regain his throne.

Star-trading Clan Korval - known to Terrans as the Tree-and-Dragon Family and to the locals simply as the Dragon - has been convicted of crimes against the homeworld. No matter that one of the "crimes" consisted of saving the elitist planet of Liad from very real internal threats, the Council of Clans wanted Korval heads to roll. Unfortunately for the council, the Dragon's allies conspired to impose a milder punishment for saving the world: banishment rather than execution.

The Earth has been the loving mother of humanity for thousands of years, but now humanity has left the cradle broken in its efforts to reach the stars. Those left behind have not fared well, but the efforts of the Conwin family and others have held the world together . . . oft time with an Iron Fist, but successfully nonetheless amid the strife since the lights went out.

Liam Hoffen is used to straightforward missions going off the rails. But when he emerges from a crash-landing, one look tells him he’ll need more than a simple repair job. Having spent years inadvertently trapped in stasis, life has done more than pass him by...it’s dumped his entire team into an alien revolution. Stranded on a rugged world hundreds of thousands of light years from home, Liam and his crew are immediately swept up in incomprehensible planetary politics. Choosing the wrong side to defeat a fresh menace could be the difference between life and death.

Sebastian's life was destroyed in mere moments. He's catapulted into a cat and mouse chase to avenge his murdered parents and regain his rightful place as Earth's ruler. By using experimental tech from his orbital palace he's guided to old allies that become more than anything he could have expected. Some of them are talented and gorgeous too, committed to helping Sebastian regain his throne.

Sebastian, the world’s true Sovereign, escaped death and fled to the world’s surface. After striking a savage blow to the pretender sitting on his throne, he set about gathering what allies he could, aided by the beautiful and vampiric Moira, his constant companion. While avoiding the net his enemies close around him, Sebastian finds help in an unlikely place, along with a new companion that has eyes for him and Moira both. He sets his sights on a lofty goal, far above the clouds. Can he strike at the heart of his usurper’s power and live?

This is the first book in the long out of print Five Worlds Trilogy by award-winning author Al Sarrantonio. As the 25th century draws to a close, Prime Cornelian, a ruthless usurper of Martian rule, will do anything to control all of human civilization, and the fate of all humankind is in the hands of the exiled King of Earth, Dalin Shar. Find more novels by Al Sarrantonio at Audible.com. Search Crossroad Press to find more titles by Al Sarrantonio and many other science-fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, western and mainstream authors.

Sebastian reveals himself to the world as its lost Sovereign, but the usurper still sits on his throne, high above the clouds. Before he can truly rule, he must fight, and win, the final battle. Along with Moira, his vampiric love, and Jessi, their warrior companion, they’ll finally ascend to the home Sebastian was forced to flee to escape his own assassination. But first, a cryptic message arrives. A dear friend’s life is in peril, an ally who will be crucial in the battle to come.

Captain Isaac Gallant is the only son of the dictator of the Confederacy, his career slowed by a dozen measures to protect his reputation and safety alike - but he has no intention of being a pampered child. He is determined to do his duty. An attempt to force his crew to acknowledge their own duties puts his ship in a unique position to intervene when an overwhelming rebel attack is launched on one of the Confederacy’s most critical facilities.

The Archon Dominion crushes all dissent. Mercy Hail wants change, no matter the cost to herself. But freak accidents keep happening around her, and she can’t explain why. So when she lights the fuse on an uprising, it’s not exactly a surprise when everything goes wrong at once. The Dominion sends Dante Matter to Mercy’s world with a simple set of orders: Find the girl with emerging telekinetic powers and put her to work for us. Nobody warned him she’d be beautiful, though. Nobody warned him her gifts would be greater than his own.

Exiled mutants and mind-controlling telepaths invade Human Space. Langston Wheeler is the only thing standing in their way. But the threat is worse than he ever imagined—war is coming, and no one is ready for it. A hero haunted by his past. A woman who has everything. Hard core military science fiction with a dose of forbidden love. Onslaught kicks off the 100% complete seven-book Exile War series.

Once, telepaths almost wiped out humankind. Centuries later, a brotherhood called the Gentle Hand lives to keep it from happening again. But war is coming, and they are not prepared. Langston Wheeler survives the first strike in an interstellar war. The young telepath comes home to warn his fellow Gentle Hands of a shadowy threat already at their door. But his message falls on deaf ears, not least because everyone remembers his infamous dalliance with a woman he should never have loved. Cleo Sable endured nearly six years of exile before the call came, summoning her back to Earth for the war.

The isolated Eternity System is alone, overpopulated, starved of resources, and dying. A 500-year-old peace treaty between the Dalthaxian Alliance and Salgon Empire is expiring and the war to end all wars looms. The next generation of warfare ignites - a digital, bloodless war set in the new game universe of Eternity Online: the brainchild of the combined AI neural nets and technological prowess of both Dalthaxia and Salgon. The war in this game universe will decide which faction will take the Eternity Planet....

The Archon Dominion grinds the planet Summerwell under the heel of its boot. Mercy Hail started an uprising, but it’s a long road to freedom, and the Archons have reinforcements coming. Even with outside help, liberating her people won’t be easy, especially when things get complicated with one of the Archons. Dante Matter isn’t sure he’s on the right side. Archon society is cruel. The strong survive and the weak are crushed. He’s made it this far, but his future isn’t clear, and he’s not sure it’s a future he wants.