Magic and the Mob don’t usually mix well. But to survive, Selia Lascari has made both work in her favor.
Banished from her hidden island homeland and adopted into a Mob family, Selia has spent nearly a decade learning to live in the “modern” world of technology and doing legitimate business for one of the city’s oldest crime syndicates. Being a part of it all, while still feeling very much apart from everything and everyone around her.
When she’s asked to run an errand, she discovers too late that it’s a trap. Alfi Barboni, a would-be suitor, wants revenge on her family, and he’ll do anything to get it.
When her adopted father is left for dead in the attempted coup, Selia’s forced to turn to her only other option: the city’s vigilante known as the Sandman. Risking everything to protect her father and save herself, Selia dons a mask – a lot of Kevlar – and begins her search for Alfi…only to discover he’s nothing more than a necromancer’s puppet.
If Selia, with the Sandman’s aid can’t stop the necromancer and end the attempted coup, everything she holds dear will be left in ruin.
It was supposed to be a simple contract for a couple of months of security services off world, but the devil’s in the details.
Tight Bridge Technologies hired Ethan Fargo and his militia to guard their power stations on the planet Endine against mob unrest and sabotage. When they arrive, they find the planetary authorities don’t want outsiders around to uncover their dirty secrets, and the Galactic Patrol’s not interested in providing backup. They all but order him to stop making waves, kicking asses, and taking names. The harder Fargo works to keep his people safe, the more troubles he finds. Dragoons and pirates are stalking the outer system, while the planet itself is a snakepit of treachery, tyranny, rebellion, and corruption. Everyone wants him to fail, while taking the blame.
They made one mistake: they underestimated Ethan Fargo. After the locals kills two of his Ghorkas, and kidnap his lady, he’s out for blood, and to hell with anything in his way….
What the history books never tell you….
In the decades leading up to the first Gulf War, modern weapons shake the air, land, and sea. Until finally, Saxüru, one of the old gods, slips through a fractured barrier and rises from the Red Sea, eager to take dominion.
But war has changed over the centuries, and Saxüru is met with the dogged resistance of Joint Task Force 13 – an elite, covert unit sworn to hold fast against every evil, supernatural threat.
One particular warrior vows to track Saxüru and bring him down. Tapped for assignment aboard the Navy’s highly classified seventh hydrofoil, Thomas “Red” McCraith joins the bedraggled crew of the USS Scorpius as they patrol the shores of a region plagued by political unrest, religious extremists, and dark, ancient sorcery.
The conflict spills over, until the fate of all mankind hangs in the balance. With casualties and collateral damage mounting, time grows short for both sides. Tensions mount and the crisis escalates, as Saxüru summons his most horrific creature, Falak, the Serpent, which lives only to do its master’s bidding and yearns to feast again on human flesh.
