It's a dirty galaxy and someone has to clean it.Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of Station Kelly Kornienko is bot-programmer Triana’s number one rule. Well, number two, right after "eat all the chocolate."But when one of her cleaning bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the airlock. A highly connected security agent interrupts her routine with stories of missing bodies, and Triana can’t ignore him; it’s cooperate or find a new job. A girl has to pay the rent, even on a crappy studio compartment.Working with a shiny detective beats a shuttle dirt-side, so Triana lends her programming skills to Agent O’Neill’s investigation. Together, they find more victims and evidence of a major cover-up.It will take all Triana’s technical talents, most of O’Neill’s connections, and some really excellent croissants to stop the murders, save her job, and ultimately, her life.The Vacuum of Space is the first book in a completed series.This book was previously published as Murder is Messy

The Earth is freezing. Its salvation was left to a group of criminals. Like me.Skylar Sorabella has spent eighteen months in prison doing whatever it takes to stay alive — assaulting guards for solitary, dodging a cellmate who wants her dead, and counting down the days until a dying sun makes none of it matter.She's not proud of who she's become.But she's still breathing.Until an alien captain changes everything.For nearly a year, a mysterious man has visited Skylar in her dreams — silent, steady, and impossibly real. The way he holds her makes her forget the world is ending. When his face appears on a prison TV as Captain Xaan of an alien spacecraft offering Earth its last chance at survival, Skylar realizes the connection wasn't in her head.It never was.The Vainovians need a crew. They're willing to take prisoners.And Skylar has nothing left to lose.There's just one problem: the alien sent to screen her says she can't be trusted.He's not wrong.But if Skylar wants a shot at freedom — and the man she's already fallen for — she'll have to prove she's more than the worst thing she's done.Even if it kills her.Departing is a slow-burn science fiction romance with no explicit content, set at the end of the world — featuring a morally gray heroine, a mysterious alien captain, and a connection that defies space, time, and trust.

Mandalorian meets Taken. Max hunted alien war criminals across the Gigaparsec of known space. After they’re all gone, he isn’t sure how he’ll fit into peacetime society. That’s not a problem now that Saurian mobsters have kidnapped his only surviving friend. Since evolved races can’t legally kill sentients, Max is going to have to get creative. Fans of Dietz, Zahn, Vance, Heinlein, Walter Jon Williams, David Brin, and Becky Chambers should enjoy this action-filled quest to other planets.

"Lena Gibson (the bestselling author of The Edge of Life) lays the tracks into an exciting new post-apocalyptic world where corporate greed controls the necessities of life, one ancient society's trash is today's salvation, and the heart of one heroine can save a country's soul." —D. Lambert, author of Son of No Man seriesIn a dark dystopian future where one corporation owns everything from water to truth, a scavenger unearths something extraordinary in the trash. She has no idea it will make her the most wanted woman in the West.Deep in the sprawling landfill outside Long Beach, Elsa survives on water tokens and careful silence under the grip of GreenCorps, a megacorp that owns every resource and every rule. When she uncovers maps to hidden seed banks, she holds the key to breaking the stranglehold on food. But secrets have a way of attracting the wrong people.On the run and hunted across the West, she finds an unlikely ally in a train-hopping drifter whose love and quiet loyalty are the last thing she expected. Fans of The Hunger Games, Red Rising, and Wool will find the same futuristic hopepunk spirit here, wrapped in a story that burns with urgency and grit. Elsa found the key that could feed a starving world. Now the most powerful corporation alive wants her dead. If you love survival, relentless action, and heroes who refuse to quit, this is the adventure you have been waiting for. Don't miss out, start reading today.2024 IndieReader Discovery Award Winner - Dystopian Fiction2024 Maxy Awards Finalist - Sci-Fi & Fantasy2024 Eric Hoffer Awards: Montaigne Medal Finalist2024 Eric Hoffer Awards: Honorable Mention eBook2023 Literary Titan Gold Award Winner

The Void had been defeated. It was supposed to be over.Ten years ago, Desa Nin Leean put away her guns and settled into a quiet life with her partner, Kalia. But her world has gotten a lot more complicated ever since her people discovered that they weren't alone in the universe. Ambassadors and diplomats and Justice Keepers, always coming and going.Now, an assassin has come to her city, wielding the ancient power of the Void, a religious fanatic who turns ordinary people into zealots. These foreigners with their fancy technology aren't prepared for a threat like this. Desa has no choice but to confront the assassin and discover the truth about his agenda.But in doing so, she will come face to face with an enemy far more deadly than any fanatic: the guilt, anger and grief that she has suppressed for so long.

From USA Today bestselling author Robert D. Armstrong comes the complete series, A World Apart. She crossed the stars to put the war behind her.For veteran fighter pilot Captain Victoria Belic, the Kelton Wars on Earth were over. She had earned the callsign Lioness in humanity's last stand against the machines. By the end, the enemy knew her name.But victory left scars. Victoria tried to bury the Lioness with the ghosts of everyone she could not save.Then came the chance to colonize a new world. A chance to leave the wreckage of Earth behind and help build something better. When Victoria woke, she was on a world she did not recognize, and her reputation had beaten her there. And now, the machines that destroyed Earth were coming for them next.But the machines made one critical error:They came for the last pride of humanity.And woke its Lioness.