When Earth is conquered by a technologically superior race called the Grath, humanity is forced to work–and fight–for them. But not all humans are content to submit to their masters…

 

The Cull Chronicles Book 1: The Next Best Thing to Heroes

While the rest of humanity is forced to toil away their lives in dank factories building equipment for the alien war machine of the Grath, Jason Cull and a select few are being trained to help fight battles in place of their masters. According to the Academy’s brochures, Jason should be one of the best and the brightest the human race has to offer. So why does he feel decidedly average?

As graduation and the impending trials of war close in, Jason and his closest friends find themselves kidnapped by forces with radically different plans. Thrown into the midst of a resistance movement that demands him to fight against the Grath instead of alongside them, Jason begins the process of proving himself all over again.

GENRE:  Science Fiction     ISBN: 9781921636189     Word Count: 70, 485

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The Cull Chronicles Book 2: The Enemy of My Enemy

Jason Cull has never really imagined he’d carry the title of captain. But when the resistance movement Freedom‘s launch is botched and their leader is killed, Jason ends up the man in charge. Since the Grath conquered the Earth and started putting humans to work, Jason has struggled to believe he’s special despite being one of the select few chosen to help fight battles in place of humanity’s new masters. Being kidnapped by the resistance movement and made their leader has put him in the uncomfortable position of being the one to figure out how to literally save the world.

His only consolation is that the Freedom‘s former leader at least left him with a vague idea what to do next: Find the alien race, the Bettarians, who are already at war with the Grath and strike a deal with them to help win back Earth. The Bettarian’s empire may be rumoured to be vast, but Jason’s seemingly fruitless ferreting from one end of the galaxy to the other has him concluding the universe is one pretty enormous haystack. Beyond that, the mission to scour outer space for allies gives Jason lots of time to mull over the former leader’s ill-conceived plan.

He’s left with a question he has no answer to by the time his search is successful: What can one ship full of refugees from a backwards planet possibly offer a sweeping and ancient alien empire in exchange for their assistance? Especially when it turns out that they all have much bigger problems than the Grath…

ISBN: 978-1-921636-88-2     Word Count: 84, 458

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The Cull Chronicles Book 3: The True Threat

When we last saw Jason Cull and the crew of the Freedom, they had just succeeded in risking everything to trade one problem for another.

The ruler of the mighty Bettarian empire had agreed to free the Earth from its enslavement, all Jason had to do in exchange was take care of the one thing in the universe that the emperor was afraid of.

Couldn’t be that hard, right?

GENRE: Science Fiction     ISBN: 978-1-925574-76-0    ASIN: B087QN2N31     Word Count: 89, 377

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