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War. It's as inevitable as breathing. Sometimes there are breaths between conflicts, short reprieves, and then those reprieves are shattered as war breaks out. As sons and daughters are sent out to die. As the true evils in the universe are revealed. Matthew Campbell, a young fisherman from a backwater world, finds himself thrown into the combine of war. He's tossed straight to the frontlines without any traditional military training, all he has to fall back on are the lessons from the life he is leaving. Join him as he fights to save a planet he has never been to. Read The Battle for ...

The fight for Allegra continues... Matthew Campbell, alongside everyone else in the Bulwark, are faced with a sudden assault from the Beets. Mudders are being killed left and right. Matthew is nowhere to be seen on the front. Will Matthew be able to get to the front in time to lead his soldiers to victory, or are they destined to die? Or will salvation come from somewhere else? Join Matthew as the fight for Allegra kicks into high gear! Read The Battle for Allegra: The Complete Season Two Omnibus today! This is an omnibus of books 11-20 in the series: The Battle for Allegra. All told, this ...

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 ...

The Fireworks Begin in the War Maker Bunker The Dawn force opens fire on the War Maker robots that were left patrolling the bunker for an untold number of years. These robots have killed before, so it's obvious that they're dangerous. Matthew and his team are in charge of capturing one of them alive. The robots are only about ten meters tall, what's is there to worry about? Matthew has a lot of struggles in the book ahead. Join Matthew as he fights to save Allegra! Fireworks is the eighteenth book in the military science fiction series The Battle for Allegra. Dive into this tale as alien ...

War has come to Alai's homeworld and she is powerless to prevent it. All she can do is watch. All she can do is worry. Looking to her husband, Alia hopes beyond all hope that he might be able to deliver her, but she is convinced that it's too late... Read Falling Skies today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 1,000 words. If you're interested in longer tales, I have full-length novels and other meatier works!***

Avel Barbas had a trick to staying alive: being the 'grey man'. All he did was try to stick to the shadows and avoid being noticed. It served him well. Until it didn't. Avel is part of a contingent sent out to some odd ranch. They aren't told why, but Avel will quickly find out that there is a rebel faction that is assaulting the location. However, these rebels aren't about to go down without a fight. Will Avel and the rest of the Coalition soldiers beat back the rebellious militia, or will they die trying? Read Settler's Ranch today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around ...

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!***

Alien worlds have a tendency of being unforgiving. People who take too long to learn that die, those who can adapt survive. Same as anywhere else in the galaxy. But there's also a bit of luck that comes into play for those that stay alive. Matthew's luck is looking up as he searches for the lost seeder ship that may or may not exist. All he has to go off of are old stories. Alas, his luck may just run out. Join Matthew as he fights to save Allegra! Seeder is the sixteenth book in the short story military sci-fi series The Battle for Allegra. Dive into this tale as new alien species are ...

When aliens invade Allegra, those who know what's best for them make a run for it. However, not everyone runs to the safest places. Some end up finding hidden dangers and secrets. Hreve and Horton are two of these unfortunate people. Beneath the Black Forest on Allegra there is a hidden, alien secret. Read The World Beneath today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 6,000 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!***

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!***

It's mere weeks before the Beets arrive on Allegra. Those who know what's coming are getting desperate to do all they can to prepare. Peter Petrova, a smuggler, is unaware of the invasion that's coming, but it won't stay that way. It seems that the Allegrian militia has a need of his particular set of skills. Read Smuggler's Route today! ***Please note, this is a short story that is around 2,400 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 ...

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!

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 ...

Honor the Dead …Even if You’re the One that killed them. Matthew killed a Toa warrior, and now he has been invited to take part in a “glory hunt” to honor the dead Toaz. Rav’ian, Matthew’s Toaz companion has opted to lead the way again, and she already has a target in mind. She wants to hit a hive of the alien invaders with just her and Matthew. In the process of this Matthew and Rav’ian have to rescue some Coalition space marines, and even encounter some interesting space marine mechs. Join Matthew as he fights to save Allegra! The Hunt is the third book in the short story ...

Matthew Doesn't Like the Idea of Killing People. Killing Beets was one thing, after all, they're the invaders. People, on the other hand, the act left a bad taste in Matthew's mouth. It also felt like it ripped a piece of his soul out of him. But, that's his mission. In fact, it's his first real one from a superior officer. He has to recover the stolen mech and put down those who stole it. Anyone who stood in the way would likely be ready to kill him, so he'd have to act first. Will Matthew and his newfound allies be able to complete the mission? Join Matthew as he fights to save Allegra! ...

They made it back in one piece... Now what? On the frontlines, Matthew's brain is always occupied with survival. War doesn't give soldiers a chance to plan their futures out. Unfortunately for Matthew, however, his team depends on him to plot out their courses of action. Before Matthew can get the chance to settle into to Sanctuary, his little slice of bunker-paradise on the front, he's heading out again. This time he's heading into what will be the bloodiest engagement that he's been in to date. Read The Battle for Allegra: Revelations today! Revelations is the ninth book in the alien ...

Kill or Be Killed. Cliché? Yes. True? Even more so. Matthew was a 20-year-old fisherman. Now he's a soldier that is about to get thrown into the meat grinder of war. If that isn’t bad enough, he’s stuck on the frontlines while the rest of the Coalition’s army awaits a “master plan” that has yet to emerge. Even after over a month of aimless fighting. Will Matthew survive his first day on the front, despite his obvious lack of training? For years the Coalition figured that the only possible alien invasion would come from the Alexandrian Republic, not somewhere far beyond the ...