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The brutal war of extinction enters a horrifying new round as the cyborgs arrive from the Neptune System, in this, the third book of the series. The Highborn are remorselessly crushing the obsolete Homo sapiens. Gambling with humanity’s existence, Supreme Commander James Hawthorne attempts to lure the dreaded Doom Stars into a trap. Social Unity’s combined Battlefleet is the bait. The cyborgs are Hawthorne’s secret weapon. Unfortunately, for Marten Kluge, a vast space battle threatens to take place around Mars.

Humans are the warheads in a lethal contest of missiles vs. long-range beams in deep space. The desperate Homo sapiens of Earth launch their experimental beamship. It’s ultra-tracking and breakthrough technology allows it to out-range the Doom Stars.The Highborn want that ship. They send swarms of missiles, knowing few will reach it. In the nosecones are their secret weapons - Free Earth Corps heroes from the Japan Campaign.

Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe: making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying. Three masters of military science fiction have come together here to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem.

An epic unmatched through the ages… An Almighty power unleashed in a lust-drenched world with a terrible and unyielding hammer. With astounding narrative power—Vaughn Heppner, Winner of the Writers of the Future Award—sweeps the reader into the whirlpool of pageantry, passion, splendor, chaos and earth-shattering upheaval that was the world before the Flood. Here is the story of Methuselah, the wealthy patriarch of a rebellious clan, and Noah, a farmer driven mad with a vision of catastrophic disaster. So begins a towering saga of great events and mortal frailties. It is peopled with ...

There wasn’t anyone lower than Ivan the orphan at Belgorod Holding. He took care of the dogs, sleeping with them in the kennel. They were savage beasts, but Ivan loved them and strangely, the hounds loved him back. One day, a strange, silver-haired knight arrived with a band of brutal henchmen and a letter from the king. The knight hired local famers, heading into the Old Forest to search for treasure. The knight was evil, the search a trick, with the farmers living sacrifices for a wicked guardian of an ancient, hidden crypt. The knight sought unholy weapons, and he would destroy ...

Fierce Nephilim riding giant reptilian beasts burst out of the Red Desert to raid the villages of the Negara Hills, collecting the young men as spears slaves and the women as harlots. In Armod, Brand’s mother resists, receiving a sword in the guts for her courage. With bloody hands imploring Heaven, she curses the Nephilim before dying. It makes Brand a target during the savage training, leaving him lonely and afraid, as all his friends abandon him. Although terrified, Brand yet has a spark of courage left. He escapes into the grasslands, meeting Lod, who claims his mother’s curses have...

Tarag of the Sabertooths and the giant Mimir the Wise have raided an ancient crypt for weapons capable of slaying angels. They have a bold plan to storm Eden, kill the guardian who wields the flaming sword and eat from the Tree of Life so they can become immortal. Yet, there is a group of humans who escaped from them on the shores of Giant Land. Those people must never reach land to warn others. Thus, the Nephilim practice an ancient spell to summon a creature from the depths to sink the ships that carry Joash, Herrek, Adah and Lord Uriah. This time, the heroes from Elon and Poseidonis are ...

One by one, the moons and habitats of the Outer Planets have gone silent: Neptune, Uranus and Saturn. After the cyborg assault against the Jupiter System, the reasons seem obvious. Those of the Inner Planets desperately scan the void for sign of a cyborg invasion fleet. Finally, one man discovers a blip. The blip becomes something terrifying: Asteroids hurtling toward Earth. The asteroids bristle with lasers turrets and missiles, and their velocity and heading can only mean one thing.

The Space Marines are in the Oort Cloud, racing in their insertion pods to the frozen planetoid of Tyche. Alone in the dark, outnumbered and outgunned by the cyborgs waiting for them on the methane-ice surface, the hour of desperation has arrived. This novella is set in the Doom Star series.

Guided by their inhuman logic, the cyborgs maneuver new planet-wreckers, Lurkers, and secretive drone fleets into position. Waiting for the word are massed stealth-capsules, ready to fire cyborg drop-troops onto selected planets, moons, and habitats. This time the assaults won’t stop until the cyborgs conquer the solar system. Highborn Grand Admiral Cassius has a deadly new weapon and a plan to defeat the terrible enemy. First, he must assassinate Supreme Commander James Hawthorne, his former ally.

Gog the ruler of Shamgar wants vengeance on the world and against Lod who blinded him. Thus, he sends his son Dagon to the Sea of Nur to find and tame the fabled behemoth, bidding him to bring it back to Shamgar. With the behemoth, Gog will crush his many enemies. Lod is a white-bearded swordsman with burning blue eyes, his frame a twisted mass of muscle from twenty long years at the slave oar. He is driven by his visions, considering himself the blade of Elohim, and he has sworn to stop Dagon. But none of them knows that on the Isle of the Behemoth is a stolen flame of Heaven, changing ...

Lod the fanatical pit slave ranges the Pre-Cataclysmic Earth to confront the Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels. They have supernatural size, strength and mystic powers. He has a sword, a knife or merely his fists. But in him burns visions from Elohim, giving him the courage to rise up and fight the invincible. He begins in the canals of Shamgar, used as bait for giant rats. Years later, he toils in the galleys of Poseidonis, a chained beast rowing to face the dreaded fire ships that always destroy their foes. Lod faces the duel of his life on the Isle of the Dead, assassin’s ...

This will sound impossible. Bannon’s government screwed him over by breaking their deal with him. He was an experiment that turned out a thousand times better than expected. He was the perfect killer and they could tune his mind any way they wanted for as long as they desired. What could be better? But the bastards hadn’t counted on the hard core of the man, the inner Bannon that knew something was wrong with him. He was going to figure things out, and when he did, the people who thought the rules didn’t apply to them… The hunters become the hunted as the two sides engage in a ...

The world is falling to the darkspawn, evil creatures that transform their captives into blood-drinkers, clawmen and worse. It looks as if nothing can stop their growing horde. But there is a knight, a lonely man that no one can beat in combat. He frees an innocent prisoner and she stirs his heart, blowing on the embers of his courage. She challenges him to lead them, a rabble of frightened souls against the onslaught of ancient sorcery. Can a weary knight, a woman with a vision and a desperate band of crusaders defeat the conquering powers of Darkness?

The Nephilim—the sons of fallen angels—have a plan: find ancient, powerful weapons, storm Eden, defeat the guardian Cherub with his flaming sword and eat from the Tree of Life. Then they can rule the Earth as gods. Gaining such weapons is highly dangerous, however. They will need ensorcelled humans to trip primeval traps for them, dying in their place. Young Joash, a freed slave, knows nothing about these things. He trains to become a charioteer like the champion Herrek who freed him from bondage. But when Herrek’s band falls under a Nephilim spell, Joash will have to find the courage...

I had one job, keeping the super-genius Dr. Calidore alive on the Allan Corporation Voyager Manhattan. The spaceship was run like a pirate vessel, part of a multi-corporation fleet racing to claim an alien asteroid vessel that had just appeared beyond the moon. None of us knew the Chin Corporation Voyager had nuclear-tipped torpedoes and planned to murder the lot of us. Well, no one knew but Calidore, and the little genius decided to skip out on a shuttle and take over the alien asteroid for himself. He screwed up bad, so bad you wouldn’t believe me if I told you what happened. The point ...

Lod the fanatical pit slave ranges the Pre-Cataclysmic Earth to confront the Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels. They have supernatural size, strength and mystic powers. He has a sword, a knife or merely his fists. But in him burns visions from Elohim, giving him the courage to rise up and fight the invincible. He begins in the Stadium of Swords in Nod, where a god sits among his beauties, watching the slaughter in his glory. He treks to the camp of a giant seeking the perfect vessel to bear his Nephilim seed, there to enact a dreadful vengeance. At the Tree of Death, Lod dares to ...

The breathtaking new thriller from the bestselling authors Vaughn Heppner and Logan White. An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland went horribly wrong. Those exposed to dark matter changed, each in unique ways. Agents of the Deep State government whisked them away to a secret facility in Italy, beginning harrowing experiments. Gavin Kiel escaped, going to ground as only a survivor of the deadly world of espionage could do. Only one person could lure him out of the shadows—the woman who opened his laboratory cell door three years ago. Gavin’s quest to find her killers ...

Keros is a crippled leper in pirate-haunted Shamgar, enduring a life of misery. Then one day the soldiers of Gog march Lod through the streets. Keros crawls out to see Elohim’s fabled champion. Before the vast throng, Lod touches Keros and declares him healed in Elohim’s name. Nothing happens…at first. But when ruffians come to kill Keros that night, he rises up and slays them, taking a Bolverk-forged sword the fools have stolen during the march. Gog learns of this healing. It is his city. In a rage, he demands that his minions bring Keros to the Catacombs, there to lie entombed with ...

Fallen angels came to earth seeking the most beautiful daughters of men, having children by them, the Nephilim. The fallen angels left, but their demonic sons remained, thirsting to conquer the Pre-Cataclysmic World so they could rule as gods. One of the most oppressive is Gog the Oracle, a pitiless monster. He has gathered his galleys and enforcers to crush the men who have risen up to resist him. He also seeks Cain, the deadliest swordsman in existence, the first murderer and ageless wanderer. Cain will be his hidden blade to strike at his enemies. Lod leads those who have thrown off ...