After New California's founder committed suicide, two men vied to rule the colony. Ashwin George, supported by the colony's elite and Tian Quan, the Chinese company whose hyperdrive ships and intelligent robots dominated half the settled galaxy. Desmond Park, nanotechnology engineer, armed with a shrewd intellect, the loyalty of the colony's disaffected youth, and the most formidable weapon of all. A single idea."

"Military science fiction concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict." -Analog, on the Confederated Worlds series The Confederated Worlds lost the war. Can Lt. Tomas Neumann win the peace? By the terms of the peace treaty, the citizens of the planet Arden will vote to stay in the Confederated Worlds or join the victorious Progressive Republic. Newly-minted Lieutenant Tomas Neumann leads his overstretched and demoralized Confederated Worlds Ground Force platoon in a mission that pushes men and machines to their limits, against elusive, deceptive foes out to tilt...

"Military science fiction concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict." -Analog, on the Confederated Worlds series The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier. He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war. Tomas Neumann sought escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father. "Taking the shilling"-enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military-promised both. But despite the soldier's skills implanted in his brain, combat still threatened to destroy him, in body...

Decades ago, a quartet of advocates-Darren, Purcell, Nesbitt, and Juliette-came to Elard to share their messages of spiritual and social uplift with the planet's primitive, fractious natives. Under the scorching rays of Elard's fiery sun, their friendship dissolved into illicit affairs and an unexplained disappearance. Darren returns to Elard for one final mission. In only thirty days, he must solve mysteries buried in the planet's vast desert-and hidden in a woman's heart. Enter a compelling, alien world of power and corruption, wonder and terror, love and death.

"I'm reminded of Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry series, or more recently, Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Anniversary Day saga." -Analog Assigned to the halls of power, only Capt. Tomas Neumann can save the Confederated Worlds from the ultimate treachery
After bold action brings him the favor of the Confederated Worlds' new president, Tomas finds himself in an arena more dangerous than combat: Politics.
Battling assassins, spies, and pervasive surveillance, Tomas discovers a shocking secret. A desperate mission takes him from luxurious temples to secret police brain...

A king inclined contrary to nature.

A foreign-born queen confined to the palace.

A kingdom desperately needing an heir.

Two courtiers ask Keladon, retired battlemage and the king's bastard half-brother, to impregnate the queen. His sense of duty to the kingdom sends him to her bedchamber. But he must do far more to stop a conspiracy of magic and murder threatening the kingdom's survival - and the woman he comes to love.

From tundra to desert, from prairies to rainforests, the trade routes of Ganelerdos converge at Sparrenfor, Larpektis, Enelarmos, and Torg-ra-Honnet-the Merchant Cities. Fair exchange offers prosperity to the creative and industrious, both human and elemental... and unearned riches to the ambitious and greedy. Scorned by his father, mocked by his older brother, Woldirek Hansar rides with a caravan into a desolate wasteland. He emerges with a bold plan to make House Hansar the Scorned by his father, mocked by his older brother, Woldirek Hansar rides with a caravan into a desolate wasteland. He...