Cassandra Marx is a thief, and a good one. This time she got greedy, though. She swiped a priceless artifact from Carmody, the most powerful man on Hesperus. He's been beating his daughter, Lark, so Cassie took the kid too. Now Carmody is tearing the galaxy apart hunting Cassie down. The artifact isn't just a priceless relic of a lost civilization. It's the key to a galaxy-wide conspiracy. Cassie needs to figure out the significance of the ancient egg, but with bounty hunters and mercenaries hounding her from one end of the galaxy to the other, she and Lark have another puzzle to solve -- how...

A plot to steal a priceless artifact Lark is on a school field trip when she thinks up a way to steal the Orb of the Stars. When she tells her guardian she expects him to talk her out of it. Instead, Jerry climbs onto the roof of the opera house - and stumbles into the middle of a kidnapping plot. Becomes a fight to the death with ruthless fanatics Now the Plateau Society is after Jerry. When he escapes, they go after his partner, Cassandra Marx. It's a mistake. Cassie tried to put her past behind her, but someone is after her family, and someone is going to pay. She still has all the skills...

A WAR IN DEEP SPACE The Hive has retreated from Earth, and Captain Richard Hammett has been ordered to give chase - in three puny corvettes. He expects to find the colony on Ariadne in ruins, but the colonists are alive, and they're fighting back. LEADS TO A WAR ON THE HOME FRONT The first battle is ugly. It's only when reinforcements arrive from Earth, though, that things REALLY get bad. There's been a change of government, and the Navy has a new mission - keep the people of Earth under control. As the Hive prepares a doomsday weapon and launches it at Ariadne, Hammett receives new orders....

Interstellar war is just the beginning Richard Hammett is no longer a captain in his beloved Spacecom. He's an admiral in the brand-new Colonial Forces in the Naxos system, tasked with defending the colony from the aliens of the Hive - and from the vengeful ships of Spacecom as well. When a scouting mission in deep space reveals the location of an alien Gate, Hammett finds himself surrounded and trapped. A Spacecom fleet blunders in, looking for Hammett to place him under arrest. With the aliens closing in, the two human fleets set aside their differences to battle a common enemy. A...