One day in the not-too-distant future, a wormhole opens up on the outskirts of the Terran solar system. For the next twenty-five years, it comes and goes at regular intervals, spilling mysterious transmissions into local space. The Terran Security Council rushes to establish a foothold on the far side of the wormhole-ostensibly to explore this new part of space, but in reality to forge a first line of defense against a possible alien invasion. A planet suitable for ice-mining is found. A manufacturing seed is launched, but the seed fails to germinate. TSC taps Chief Awinita 'AJ' Johnson for...

Captain Jillian D'Lange is a woman with a promising future...until she gets caught in an explosion meant for someone else. Eight months later, she emerges from a coma only to find that the galaxy is a very different place. Her lover is dead, her new ship is three months shy of being confiscated, and she's now a cyborg with memory problems. She's also the focal point of an investigation into corruption within the powerful Spacer's Union. The president of the SU believes that her memories are the key to unlocking the case and tries to bully her into submitting to psychotherapy. When she...

When a dragon is offered a human sacrifice, the theory is, dinner is served, right? But what if the dragons figures the meal isn't all that tasty? Lathwi is about to find out. Offered as the annual sacrifice, she's left to feed and pacify the local dragon, but Taziem has different ideas. Really, why eat a scrawny girl when she can take down a big yummy cow? Taziem takes Lathwi to her cave and raiser her with her dragon-babies, in hopes of getting the one thing more important to a dragon than food-knowledge. While Taziem learns more about humans, Lathwi learns and grows as a dragon, until one...