The Rule of Three
When a global blackout kills modern technology, a teen and his neighborhood must improvise to survive.
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Fields of Fire
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Never Surrender
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Plague War
A returned primarch fights to reclaim a plague-ravaged realm while faith, war, and family clash on all sides.
A Meeting at Corvallis
In post-tech Oregon, rival factions edge toward war as hostage leverage, truce talks, and battlefield choices decide the region’s future.
Firestorm
A displaced destroyer crew faces widening fronts, rising technology, and a new enemy in an alternate-world war.
Hope for the Best
A time-traveling historian joins the Time Police to trap a long-running enemy while history itself starts to go wrong.
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Odysseus Ascendant
In a far-future war, a Terran crew must defend Earth against the Empire while an uncanny presence aboard their ship grows.