Peacemaker Wars
J.N. Chaney & Terry Maggert
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Would you choose to live an ordinary life. . . or embrace a destiny among the stars?
In a single act of courage, a young American soldier named Mark Tudor saves an interstellar soldier from certain death at the hands of a vicious killer. Afterwards, she promises to show him the Galaxy, but only if he leaves his old life behind.
Mark must fly far away from the only home he's ever known, towards a life not so different from that of a humble soldier. Out among the asteroids, he learns of swords and honor, starships and empires.
He learns what it means to be a Peacemaker.
Along the way, he’s joined by Perry, his combat AI companion who helps him survive—and earn a living—among the stars.
And to his surprise, his first mission is far from simple, and it may prove to be his last.
Mark's new enemy is smart and deadly, but they are highly specialized in one specific thing: killing Peacemakers.
And they're very good at what they do.
The Guardian: Book One:
The Disremembered Trilogy
A T Kalynowych
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It might not be a religious proverb, but at least it ought to be a maxim of humankind. It’s certainly one of the greatest truths I’ve discovered: life is mostly bewildering.
I suppose when I found myself with an Immortal as a mentor, I should have expected that my world was going to change. But how does one prepare for the sheer magnitude of dissimilar perspectives they are presented with when their mentor is a more than thousand-year-old Greek? And he lives by a set of truths learned in a world long forgotten. Forgotten, but not gone.
One truth is our capacity for inadvertent adventure. Though there is civilization aplenty, the wild spaces between the cities have always surprised people with the unexpected. And here another great truth of Apollo’s time is found: those men who heed the call of such adventures often live just long enough to become dangerous but die before they can tell their children about the truly important discoveries they made.
And here we are, descendants with an indescribable deficit in our upbringing, a feeling that there is more to the world than we’ve been told. I know you’ve felt it. But though men are forgetful, these kinds of important things don’t just go away. They rest in the shadows and wait to be rediscovered.
I ought to have known some people would rather that such forgotten things stayed that way. Men who search for meaning and direction are far more controllable than they might be, if they knew the truths we learned from the Guardian. Neither of us intended to become historians, but once such information was recovered there was only one thing to do, it had to be written down, or be lost for another generation.
So then we begin the Books of the Disremembered.
Longshot
Avery Blake & Johnny B Truant
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While Las Vegas burns, John Abbot is on fire.
What's a Gambler to do when the kind of winning streak he's only ever dreamed about hits just as aliens invade and it looks like the world is coming to an end?
Even while Las Vegas catches fire all around him, John Abbot decides to let it ride. For the first time in his life it feels like he can do no wrong. But it's gonna take more than a boatload of chips to survive the alien apocalypse. It might even require him to pull together the motley crew of left-over lowlifes and Vegas vagabonds to embark on a high-risk crusade.
In order to get a dying alien to Area 51, and hopefully save the world, John's only hope is a disillusioned showgirl, a snarky comedian, a cynical slot machine junkie, and the rest of the Las Vegas leftovers.
Unless they die, and destroy the universe along the way.
It's a race against time as the aliens arrive in this new stand-alone book in the Alien Invasion universe.