Spectras Arise

A SOLDIER'S CONTRACT NEVER TERMINATES. In a few hundred years, the Algol system becomes humanity's new home. The question is: Is it a better one? CONTRACT OF DEFIANCE, CONTRACT OF BETRAYAL, and CONTRACT OF WAR follow former Corpsmember Aly Erikson and her crew of anti-Admin smugglers through ever-escalating life-and-death adventures and the trials of a living on the side of liberty and...

TRUSTING OTHERS IS YOUR FIRST MISTAKE. If Tech Sergeant Erikson plans to survive another day, she'll have to give up everything: her identity, her rank, her beloved Corps, and most of all, her so-called honor. Haunted by the ghosts of outclassed and outgunned rebels her squad was ordered to eliminate, Erikson struggles to maintain her military bearing—until even that is ripped away in an act of...

WHEN ALL OTHER OPTIONS RUN OUT, NEVER LET GO OF YOUR GUN. In a few hundred years, the Algol system becomes humanity's new home. The question is: is it a better one? When a crew of arms smugglers botches their latest job, Corps-deserter and crewmember, Aly Erikson, is separated from her brother, the only person she can trust, and left behind to fight for her life. In the aftermath, as she tries...

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW OR THE DEVIL YOU DON'T—SOMETIMES THEY'RE BOTH WORSE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE. In a bid to free the settlers of Agate Beach from their dependence on picking at Admin scraps, Corps-deserter Aly Erikson's crew is willing to make a few deals, even with the devil. When Aly learns her friends have deceived her, she has to decide which is stronger: her sense of having been betrayed or...

UNITY OR TYRANNY. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THE BODY COUNT. In the aftermath of a system-wide war between the Admin and Corp Loyalists and the non-citizen population of the Algols, everything once resembling order has been leveled. Scattered enclaves of survivors dot the worlds, living in snarled lawlessness how ever they can. Aly Erikson and her crew have carved out a niche of relative peace...