Author: jsmorin

“We’re going to find someone with a nice ship. Someone who doesn’t deserve one. And we’re going to steal it.”Esper made that promise. Now it’s time to make good. The Cult of Ra has a flagship, and thanks to a turncoat in their ranks, Esper and her friends know where it’s going to be. Better yet, they know that Pharaoh Ramesses XIII will be aboard. It’s time to cut the head off the cult.One … head off the cult.One problem…The cult knows they’re coming.Two problems, actually…The Poet Fleet knows where they are, too, and have sent a team to make…

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A murder mystery you can sink your ship into.Esper has a rendezvous with a mysterious contact aboard an undersea luxury cruise ship, an exclusive submarine hotel for a cozy five-day getaway. She’s going to get all the intel she needs to cut off the head of the Cult of Ra—at least that’s the plan.When she first meets her contact, it’s at the scene of his murder.Then someone sinks the cruise ship, … murder.Then someone sinks the cruise ship, trapping Esper and the other passengers with the killer.Now, Esper has to discover the killer’s identity, recover any stolen intel the victim…

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Almighty Ra looks down not from one sun but from all.When a client hires Esper and Kubu to find a missing holovid costar, they stumble onto a recruiting effort for an ancient cult with a new look. The Cult of Ra died out in Egypt before the Iron Age, but it’s been rebranded for the Interstellar Age. More suns for the sun god! Those crazy gods weren’t animals but aliens after all.Tracking the cult … all.Tracking the cult to a lunar theme park, Esper will have to take on an entrenched corporate machine built up over a veneer of affordable…

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Core World problems… turns a blind eye toward. And when one of her protectees gets kidnapped, Esper will stop at nothing to bring her home. Well, almost nothing. Because Esper’s work has pushed her to the edge of a moral precipice. She’s clinging by the last of her willpower to avoid the easy path, the one that might lead her to damnation and turn her into the sort of person she’s been battling all along. And the voice in her head keeps egging her on. House of the Orion Sun is the third mission of Black Ocean: Mercy for Hire. Set in the Black Ocean Universe, it continues…

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Esper and her sidekick Kubu might be the galaxy’s worst bounty hunters, but with a little magic and a lot of luck, perhaps they could become its greatest heroes. A zany space adventure perfect for fans of Guardians of the Galaxy!

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These days, even the humans are built by robots.Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap.Geneticists have restored Earth’s biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human … in its infancy; human cloning is banned.Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly naïve about her species’ history. But Eve’s creator wants her back and has a gruesome…

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Piloting the starship Mobius, Captain Carl Ramsey and his ragtag crew seek adventure in a galaxy crawling with bounty hunters, smugglers, and interstellar syndicates… These action-packed space missions will keep you glued to the page!

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