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Matthew found Marie, now can he get her to safety? After what seemed like an eternity, Matthew's finally saved Marie. In the time since she saw him last he's been through Hell. Not only that, but he's killed a lot more people than he ever thought he would. He's ready for some reprieve. On the other hand, Marie's been held against her will and has been forced to patch up the same Fulcrum soldiers who kidnapped her. Now two parties stand between them and their sought-after safety. The Fulcrum want to hunt them down and take revenge. The invading alien Beets are just willing to take whatever ...

The militia requested help in acquiring a new ship, Matthew's seeing to it that the job is finished. The job has taken Matthew and his team into Thessalonia, and Matthew isn't about to head back home after the job is done after going this far. He's got questions that need answering and he's got Beets to kill. And there's a chance that some of his friends from Crail are in the city too! Read The Battle for Allegra: Acquisition today! Acquisition is the twenty-third book in the sci-fi novelette series The Battle for Allegra. Join Matthew as he goes over the top and ventures into the killing ...

Matthew is tasked with killing a friend... At the request of space marine Second Lieutenant Seville Wyndover, Matthew is hunting down his friend James. Matthew and Rav'ian rescued Wyndover at the expense of their "glory hunt." Once Wyndover was saved, he returned the favor by giving them with more supplies than a Mudder could have dreamed of. Matthew's greatest dilemma isn't the fact that he is hunting down a friend. Now he himself is being hunted. Will he be able to kill his hunters before they kill him? Join Matthew as he fights to save Allegra! Relegated is the fourth book in the short ...

Bart Collier was counting the days he had left before he was done with his military service. He thought he was just about done. Then aliens invade Allegra. Now Bart is fighting for his life and to save those who also call Allegra home. Will he be able to make a difference? Read Behind Enemy Lines today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 10,300 words. If you're interested in longer tales, I have full-length novels and other meatier works!***

There's a secret beneath the Bulwark... It seems that the more time Matthew spends on the front the more things he finds. Sometimes those discoveries are enclaves of ancient AI killer robots, sometimes it's a bunker, and other times, it's something even more unexpected than all of that. In this case, that underground discovery is something that will change the way everyone in the Bulwark can live for the better. However, mystery surrounds it and its discovery opens up more questions than Matthew is ready for. Read on to find out what it is! Read The Battle for Allegra: Underground Today!! ...

Seemingly unstoppable alien invaders are invading the Milky Way. Archibald Dare's ship, the Huntress is dispatched to defend an uninhabited moon to keep the alien invaders, known as Beets, from getting a foothold in the galaxy. Will they succeed, or is their mission doomed to fail? Read on to find out! *This is a side story to The Invasion of Allegra story, but it can be read as a standalone. This, and the Invasion of Allegra, both take place prior to The Battle for Allegra.* **Note, this is an edited and republished version of the story that was first published on Kindle Vella in 2022.***

Can a twenty-year-old mount a rescue op against hardened veterans? After finding a place to call home in the dreary frontline trenches on Allegra, Matthew has just one mission in mind: Rescue. Marie, the front's stand-in medic was taken captive by a rival faction that was supposed to be on Matthew's side. However, in war, "supposed to be" is anything but a guarantee. Now Matthew has to turn his rifle on those who fought beside him. Problem is, those he's declaring a personal war on are hardened soldiers and Matthew is still a newbie. But, he's got a secret weapon. His guardian angels, the ...

Rude awakenings and hard truths. That's war. Matthew's thrown one curveball after another as he learns that just about nothing is sacred in war. Nothing is guaranteed. No one is untouchable. Now he's afraid that he might just lose it. Problem is, he doesn't have the time to lose it or to even fear that he might go crazy when the war is over. Instead, he's got one task after another. One mission always has yet to be completed when no one else seems to be doing any of the fighting. Now Matthew has to venture into no-man's-land at midnight to recover his lost mechanized infantry unit, Firefly....

Nowhere is ever truly safe. The year is 2284 and wars are endemic across Coalition Space. Matthew Campbell was a fisherman before the Coalition arrived. All he had to worry about was bringing in the day’s catch. Now he is in the middle of a war that has already killed tens of thousands. Matthew makes all the wrong people angry and he finds himself in a "prime" spot on the frontlines. ...Without any traditional military training. It seems that everything he learned in his tiny fishing village and from his time on a fishing boat will have to be enough to keep him alive. The question is, ...

Things always go wrong when you try to be God. In the case of Reinhardt Base, the Coalition's attempts have now cost them an entire planet. Now the survivors are just trying to get out with their lives. Can they do it? Read Flight From Reinhardt today!

Carus Salvaggi is an 18-year-old in high school. He daydreams about graduating and marrying his lifelong love. But alien invasions have the propensity to ruin people's plans. Carus is now destined to a life far different from what he planned. Join him as the first of the alien ships touch down and the invasion begins! Read Barracudas today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 6,500 words. If you're interested in longer tales, I have full-length novels and other meatier works!***

Allegra is under siege and John Jansen doesn't learn this until it's too late. He was escorting a prison ship to Allegra, now it looks like that plan might be out the window. Read Going Down today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 1,600 words. If you're interested in longer tales, I have full-length novels and other meatier works!***

There's a hidden army far behind Beet lines. This army, if the stories are correct, is enough to turn the tide of the war against both the Beets and the Coalition. But they've been sidelined for quite some time now. They've been biding their time. All Matthew has to do is find them. ...And convince them to talk to him. ...And convince them to join the war too. Easy. (Or not.) What could possibly go wrong? Read The Battle for Allegra: The Ranch today! The Ranch is the twenty-first book in the sci-fi novelette series The Battle for Allegra. Join Matthew as he goes over the top and ventures ...

Life as a captain of a merchant ship was seldom exciting, but that didn't phase Ben Moriarty, a war veteran who was happy for the change of pace. But sometimes excitement finds you. For Ben Moriarty, that excitement is in the form of an alien invasion on a world he is making a delivery to. And that excitement will cost him dearly. Read Navigator today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 3,200 words. If you're interested in longer tales, I have full-length novels and other meatier works!***

Francis Reedsburg is a copper miner on a big old nothing of a planet named Raudona Akiratis. The closest thing he's used to when it comes to action is wait for ore pickups to occur--or at least it used to be that way. The miners in the San Sebastian Copper Mine have been finding odd bits and pieces from a race many call the War Makers. And it seems that they've finally awakened something... Read The Pillars today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 2,900 words. If you're interested in longer tales, I have full-length novels and other meatier works!***

Patrick Fahy-Connor wanted the easiest possible mission when he joined the Coalition. He didn't want to see any fighting. He didn't want any sort of action. He wanted to be left alone. But that's never how life works. Instead, he is surrounded by people and will soon be the center of attention for the whole of the Coalition. As it turns out, sounding the alarm about alien invaders from outside of the Milky Way has a way of attracting attention. It doesn't take long before Fahy puts together that those same aliens are heading for his homeworld. However, that isn't his only problem. His space...

Sometimes good things can come out of nowhere, Those good things could very well save your life, if you're lucky. With the Beet horde bearing down on the poorly defended Bulwark, Matthew is abundantly aware of his need for a miracle to survive the day. The same scene is replayed over every front on Allegra. People are dying across the entire planet by the thousands as the planetwide attack begins. Will Matthew and his Bulwark fare any better than the rest of the planet? Or are they destined to die alongside the rest of the Mudders? Buy The Battle for Allegra: Arrival today! Arrival is the ...

There's a lost world in the mountains. West of the Bulwark, a valley lies almost untouched by humanity, despite Allegra's long history of being colonized. There are stories of horrible beasts and other terrifying things in this forested valley. These stories became the basis of the name for the area: the Black Forest. Just like the tales of the Black Forest on Earth, this Black forest is supposed to have creatures that can kill man, woman, and child. And Matthew is about to check it all out. Read The Battle for Allegra: Fortify today! Black Forest is the fifteenth book in the alien invasion...

*This is a piece of flash fiction, it's short!* Ships like the Cambridge served diligently in their day. They won massive victories and saved many lives. However, there comes a time when a ship reaches the end of its life. A time that it must go the way of the ships that it once destroyed. That time has arrived for the Cambridge as it is, at long last, scuttled. Read The Cambridge's Final Voyage today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 1,300 words. If you're interested in longer tales, I have full-length novels and other meatier works!***

The Coalition is threatening to withdraw its fleet from Allegra as the threat of alien invasion becomes real. The people of Allegra, including those who built those ships, aren't about to let that happen without putting up a fight. Join Franz Zimmerman as the people of Allegra take to the skies in an effort to show the Coalition that they are not a people who won't go down without a fight! Read Resist today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 7,300 words. If you're interested in longer tales, I have full-length novels and other meatier works!***