Things have changed on the Bell, thanks to the war. Luca finds herself doing some pretty colorful runs for the Carnes Syndicate these days, beginning with a little weapons smuggling. It's not the smuggling that's dangerous, though.It's the thugs following her that catch her first mate's attention. Emery Charles trained for years to do the Empire's dirty work, and he did it without flinching. His refusal to bring in the captain of the Carry Bell gets a bounty on his head, and a swarm of operatives out to do the job. Now, they have to find a way out of this rat's maze of spies, war and...

Ari Badu captains a space hauler named the Carry Bell. She's got a run back home on Taarken Prime that needs her attention, and that's not the only thing that needs her attention. Family is always complicated, but, in this case, it's beset with twelve years of secrets that are about to come roaring to the surface as she encounters the man who ruined her life, Caden Carnes. What will happen next is anyone's guess, but Ari can only pray it doesn't take another twelve years to work it all out?

Ra'dan Sevarus inherited the Carry Bell, and it seems a destiny right along with it. He's called home to his home world to deal with family drama, and walks right into a revolution, a changed world and the arms of the most beautiful human he's ever seen. Dr. Nina Quell runs a local clinic for the indigenous of Brin, the most populated of the three planets. She also happens to have family drama of her own, but hers happens on a slightly more galactic scale. Her sister rules the Imperium of planets with an iron fist. All they have to do is save a planet from slavery, dodge an controlling...

Mal Renata was born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, but it never stopped her from becoming the voice of the Braxian people. As an activist fighting off mankind's inevitable slide into cruelty and prejudice, she wants to stop the Scourge bill from becoming law, but how can she do that, if the bill's supporters keep dying? Public outcry wants someone to pay, so she intends to give them someone. Until she tracks down, Adame Sacha, a Braxian freedman and one of the notorious Brother Assassins, she thinks the brotherhood is her problem. Instead, she finds they may be the best allies...

Aiden Simeon hasn't had a normal life. That's how he became a tech with a mercenary group on Havoc Station, one of the roughest places in the galaxy. He's inherited the responsibility of three other kids, while he's still just a kid himself. The Lancers are the only ticket out of the system, and he intends they'll be on that transport when they go. Provided, of course, he can solve the problem of a cyber attack on the station, survive the war with a new and overwhelming enemy, and learn how to fit in an evolving world where nothing can stay the same.