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Deadly alien stowaways. A determined starship’s crew. The battle for Earth is on. Jas Harrington made it back to Earth after battling hostile aliens at the far reaches of the galaxy. What she doesn’t know is, the aliens have hitched a ride. When the crew disembarks, Jas parts company with the pilot, killing their budding romance. Oh well, never mind. Then comes the game changer; Jas realizes Earth is being invaded, and no one’s doing anything about it. The government’s trying to sweep the problem under the rug.

Between 1896 and 1922, in addition to a series of full-length novels Lucy Maud Montgomery published over 140 short stories. In general, these tales are reflective of the coming of age themes and the sylvan settings which are explored in greater detail in the novels.

Kickass sci-fi heroine versus deadly aliens. Growing up as a Martian on Earth has left Jas Harrington solitary, quick-tempered, and with zero tolerance for fools. All plus points when working as chief security officer aboard prospecting starships. Jas' latest berth is aboard the Galathea, which trawls the reaches of the galaxy seeking precious minerals and rare resources. She thinks it's a routine trip. She's wrong. An inspection of a far-flung planet leaves Jas suspicious that there's more to the place than meets the eye.

An ancient war reignites. When Taylan Ellis saved the life of the woman who wanted her dead, she unknowingly sparked a chain of events that promises to reawaken a war between ancient rivals. Blissfully ignorant of what she’s done, Taylan has resumed her search for her children in the West Britannic Isles, among the cultish Crusaders, hostile invaders of her homeland. To remain anonymous, she adopts a bizarre disguise and mercilessly plays upon their ridiculous beliefs. Meanwhile, the global powers are ramping up for a confrontation that will decide the future of humanity.

Jas Harrington has escaped to the starship Bricoleur. In the brief respite from battle, she must decide how best to fight the Shadows, who kill and replace their victims. Along with her companions, she travels to her birthplace, Mars, where she delves into her murky past and uncovers surprising secrets.

The Britannic Alliance is clawing its way back from annihilation with the help of King Arthur, revived from a 3,000-year sleep, and former Royal Marine, Taylan Ellis. Newly discharged, all Taylan wants to do is find her children and keep them safe. If only life were that simple. The Alliance is a long way from recouping its lost territories, and deranged cult leader, Dwyr Kala Orr, continues to prey upon Earth’s inhabitants. Orr has discovered Taylan is a threat to her existence, and she’s after her blood.

The Britannic Alliance has been brought back from the brink of disaster by Taylan Ellis, a Royal Marine fighting to win back her homeland. The fight goes on. The cultish Earth Awareness Crusade still holds many BA territories, and the Antarctic Project continues to ravage the planet, snatching scarce resources to build colony ships.

King Arthur in outer space? Endless warfare has ravaged Earth, and billions are desperate to escape. One of them is Taylan Ellis. Driven from her home in the West Britannic Isles by an invasion and severed from her children, Taylan enlists with the Britannic Alliance, hoping she can help regain her homeland and find her kids.

Like many, Destiny is a young woman who struggles with her weight. Her love affair with food began at five years old when her father walked out of her life and her mother was left depressed, never fully getting over the fact that her husband was gone. When Destiny ate, she was able to numb all the pain that life had dealt her. Food became her drug, her lover, her friend. To make matters worse, she was involved in a terrible car accident as a teenager and lost the use of both her legs.

When the Concordian colonists finally reached Earth after years lost in space, they expected a short visit. All they needed was bio-material to reseed their world. What they hadn’t anticipated was the arrival of the Scythians. They learn the deadly aliens attacked the planet once before, devastating the burgeoning civilization. Now they’re here to stay. Earth is weak. Humanity has barely begun to climb back to its previous level of development. The Concordians face a terrible choice: stick around and help in the effort to repel the invasion, or return home and save Concordia.

When humanity’s first deep space colonists touched down on the new planet, they had no idea it was the birthplace of a hostile alien species. After enduring numerous attacks, the survivors realize the aliens are about to enact their revenge by invading Earth. General Cherry Lindstrom commissions the building of a starship to carry a select band of colonists to the home world and warn the inhabitants of the impending war. Generations have passed since the original colony ship departed.

Carina Lin and her family of mages are trying to get to Earth aboard the colony ship the Bathsheba, but they have one small problem: The ship’s out of fuel.

Within the galactic badlands, an ancient terror awaits. Our dark heroine, Carina Lin, continues in her quest to reach Earth, which she hopes will be a safe haven for mages. In order to get there, she must cross a vast galactic region. The colony ship, Bathsheba, can help her achieve her goal, but she and her merc buddies must first seize the ship and then navigate the dangers of deep space.

Carina Lin has fought torturers, vengeful clans and the forces of darkness to free her mage family, but her fight is not over yet. She returns to the planet where she discovered clues to mage history and lore, hoping to find the way back to Earth and a new home.

Life is never simple and especially not for Carina Lin. Bloodthirsty tyrants, savage aliens, and vicious adversaries are just a few of the challenges she’s been forced to overcome on her galactic voyage to the birthplace of mages: Earth. Against all the odds, she’s made it. Eager to discover if the planet is a safe place for her and her family to openly practice their "magical" abilities, she travels to the surface. What she finds there confounds all her expectations.

Carina Lin has defeated dark mages, hostile aliens, and evil smugglers to bring her family halfway across the galaxy in her search for Earth. But more obstacles stand in her way. A strange star system awaits them en route, threatening to trap them within its confines forever. Carina must face the challenges of an extraordinary space station, if she’s ever to find a safe haven for the people she loves.

Carina Lin, her mage family, and her mercenary band are on the final leg of their long journey aboard the colony ship, Bathsheba. But to reach their destination, they must cross a region of barren space, where habitable planets are few and friends are rare. If Carina is to reach Earth, the rumored birthplace of humankind and hoped-for sanctuary for the mage clan, she must defeat the terrors that lurk outside and within her starship.

Fighting for freedom from galactic tyranny, General Cherry Lindstrom is responsible for the defense of the colony world, Concordia. This last outpost of human civilization lives under constant threat of attack from hostile aliens who claim the planet as their own. But decades have passed since the last assault, and the colonists have grown complacent. Thanks to the effects of time dilation, only Cherry and a handful of others remember the devastation wreaked on Concordia previously.

All that remains of human civilization is a fledgling colony on Concordia, a planet light years from Earth. Infighting and disaster dogged the colony’s earliest days, but through the determination and bravery of a few individuals, the remnants of humankind have clung to existence. One of the grittiest of these characters is Cherry Lindstrom. A farmer turned freedom fighter, she helped to lead the generational colonists’ rebellion. Now she must travel to the Galactic Assembly and persuade the leading powers to accept humans into their alliance.

All her life Cariad had one dream: to participate in humanity’s colonization of deep space. After topping her field as a geneticist, and then spending 184 years in cryonic suspension, she’s achieved her goal. But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators come out at night, ready to feast on the new arrivals. What’s more, saboteurs have stowed away aboard the ship and are determined to destroy the new colony.