Before the Commonwealth existed, there was an expanding, multi-galaxy civilization, that disintegrated.  This is the story of its downfall, where colony worlds learned to survive by their own strength…or were abandoned to die.

Book list in Chronological Order:

AGE I:

Before the Commonwealth existed, there was an expanding, multi-galaxy civilization. Due to the combined effects of a too-aggressive policy of expansion, civil unrest, the inequality and abuse of the classes, and the categorizing of augmented humans as a slave class, the Central Allied Worlds (CAW) disintegrated.

 

The period of darkness and barbarism that followed is referred to as the Downfall. Various groups of people fled the Central Allied Worlds (referred to by its descendants/survivors simply as “First Civ”) as they became endangered or more powerful people tried to have them classified as mutants or non-humans, and either sterilized or made them into slaves. Among them were the Khybors, the ancestors of the Leapers.

 

Some groups of people managed to get hold of ships and flee to distant galaxies.

* Volume 1: Khybors: In the Beginning (A Khybor Story)

* Volume 2: Norbra’s Children (A Khybor Story)

* Volume 3: Slipping the Weave (A Khybor Story)

* Volume 4: First Law (A Khybor Story)

* Volume 5: Nova Vendetta Part 1: The Injustice

* Volume 6: Nova Vendetta Part 2: The Truce

* Volume 7: The Pirate and the Professor (Scifi Romance Novella)

* Volume 8: The Talon: The Adventure Begins (A Talon Story)

* Volume 9: The Talon: The Hero’s Mask (A Talon Story) New in 2024!

* Volume 10: The Talon: Song of the Nightskimmer (A Talon Story) New in 2024!

* Volume 11: The Saddle and the Sleuth (SciFi Romance Novella: A Talon Story)

* Volume 12: Wind Walker (SciFi Romance Novella: A Refuge Story)

* Volume 13: Moonbirds (SciFi Romance Novella: A Refuge Story)

* Volume 14: The Peace Village (A Refuge Story) New in 2024!

 

Commonwealth Series Page Age 1 (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3Y1oz40

 

Age II and III are being updated before coming back for sale, so keep an eye out for when these series (listed at the end of the page) are available for sale again!

 

AGE I:

Before the Commonwealth existed, there was an expanding, multi-galaxy civilization referred to by its descendants/survivors simply as “First Civ”. Due to the combined effects of a too-aggressive policy of expansion, civil unrest, the inequality and abuse of the classes, and the categorizing of augmented humans as a slave class, First Civ disintegrated.

 

The period of darkness and barbarism that followed is referred to as the Downfall. Various groups of people fled First Civ as they became endangered or more powerful people tried to have them classified as mutants or non-humans, and either sterilized or made them into slaves. Among them were the Khybors, the ancestors of the Leapers.

 

Some groups of people managed to get hold of ships and flee to distant galaxies.

 

Age 1, Volume 1: KHYBORS: In the Beginning

Three novellas in one volume explore the birth of the Khybors, whose descendants will impact the Downfall, the rebirth of civilization, the return to the stars, and the Commonwealth far into the future.

Khrystalis: Kerin is the youngest child of two powerful, intelligent and gifted research scientists. When the military interferes yet again in her father’s research, the resulting lab explosion fills Kerin’s body with experimental bio-crystal, long before the material is ready for human testing. In a twinkling, she’s changed.

Intended to aid the body in repairing itself, bio-crystal is used when medical science is incapable. As the living mineral penetrates down to the genetic level, Kerin learns to change herself and to sense the world in totally new ways. When her gift reaches out beyond her own biology, she stands poised between being the bearer of a great gift for humanity…or a threat that may change the universe.

Ambush: The twins, Casta and Pol, should never have been born, and there are many enemies who would still try to destroy them as they reach adulthood. Hidden away on a remote colony world with their uncle, they’re allowed to explore the breadth of their potential as well as to develop all the gifts they can imagine.

That potential is put to good use when their home is attacked and their uncle is kidnapped by enemies intent on destroying first their world, then civilization. The twins’ favorite game is called Ambush, and now the game has become reality. Only the enemy will never know what hit them…

When the smoke clears, Casta and Pol regain more than their uncle. Now what the twins are has a name: Khybors.

Wing and Claw: Lor and Jae lead the Khybors, training them to be the frontrunners of exploration teams clearing alien worlds for colonization. They’ve learned from their youth not to trust the powers-that-be when they speak of peace and cooperation between the emerging groups of augmented Humans and the rest of the Human race. All the signs are there, that the enemies who have been quiet, hiding in the shadows for generations, are ready to emerge and attack once again.

The time has come to reach for the stars, for Khybors to flee to the furthest limits of explored and colonized space, and find a world where they can live in peace and safety. First, they have to rescue the people who dared to stand up for them and speak on their behalf, before their voices are silenced permanently.

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-925191-32-5    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798224979837   ASIN: B0DJFCX1VS    Word Count: 76, 216

 

 

Age 1, Volume 2: Norbra’s Children 

Elin, a direct descendant of the first Khybor, holds the future of her race on her shoulders. When the Set’ri want to declare them non-Humans and have them exterminated, and other factions in civilization want them as slaves, Elin leads the way to a desert world called Norbra, where Khybors have a chance to live free and to raise their children in peace and safety.

But their enemies have followed them…

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 9781921314582    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798227690333    ASIN: B0DJFPKDCK    Word Count: 49, 728

 

 

Age 1, Volume 3: Slipping the Weave

Khybors flee to Norbra for a safe place to raise their children, far from enemies who want them declared non-Humans, or want to enslave or annihilate them entirely. Like the selfish, arrogant queen of legend for whom the planet is named, Norbra has a reputation for destroying all life. Elin and those who settle the planet believe no one else will want it. They hope their enemies will leave them in peace while they wait for Norbra to do the hard work of destroying their troublesome race.

However, Khybors are made to survive. They make Norbra their home and use the dangers of the planet for their own defense. Then. as the generations go on, they make a long-range plan for survival, aware that their enemies won’t give up. The only way for Khybors to survive as a race is to withdraw so far away that the Set’ri and other enemies will never find them, and in time, may even forget about them.

Rorin Pace comes to Norbra to win Elin’s heart, to follow his dream of piloting one of their ships, and to find a way to protect all Khybors. Kheeran, their daughter, reaches new dimensions as a pilot. Their son Banjer dives deeper within the computer world and discovers the vital element in the Khybors’ long-range plans of escape to the far reaches of space.

Zeph, a Wrinkleship pilot, allies with the Khybors in building their fleet and brings them a damaged ship called the Nova Vendetta, full of prisoners, pirates, and a growing artificial intelligence.

Errien, Kheeran’s daughter, leads the pilots who search for new gateways to other universes.

Meanwhile, their enemies grow stronger and come closer, and the countdown begins to the destruction of the Central Allied Worlds.

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-925191-84-4    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798227787736    ASIN: B0DJZ168DS    Word Count: 81, 108

 

 

Age 1, Volume 4: First Law

Of all the races that are part of the Central Allied Worlds (CAW), the augmented are the most feared, despised and threatened, considered no longer Human because of their abilities. But the time has finally come for the children of Norbra to act…

After generations of cycling back and forth between abuse and praise, friendship and fear in the galaxy, Elin and Rorin and their descendants have a plan and the technology to save all Khybors. Utilizing the mind-machine bond with their Skip ships, they can create Wrinkles in the fabric of space. For the first time, fleeing beyond the reach of politicians, genetic purists and extremists like those led by the vicious Set’ri allows them the means to invisibly get to safety and provide evacuation for their allies.

But an unprecedented discovery alters everything. They aren’t simply Skipping beyond the reach of the sensors, they’re Leaping to alternate universes, perhaps new dimensions…where the CAW can never find them. In alien space, the only certainty is that they need to protect themselves from other races that may prey upon them and their unique talents. Born of loss, pain and despair, the first law of the Leapers is set in stone: Harming one Leaper amounts to harming all. Attack and the gift of the Leap will be removed from cities, countries, worlds…the entire cosmos.

An act of survival on the part of the children of Norbra ushers in an era of unimaginable change.

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-925574-43-2    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798223663522    ASIN: B0DJZ5QMJZ    Word Count: 51,077

 

 

Age 1, Volume 5: Nova Vendetta Part 1: The Injustice

Niall Encardi is ready to graduate after long, intensive years of medical training and go home to the colony world of Sorendaal. His life-long dream has been to become a healer and help the people his uncle, the governor, leads. The revolutionaries who overthrow the current government of the Central Allied Worlds have other plans. When the homeworlds of Niall and his classmates don’t immediately give support and approval to the revolutionaries, the medical students are labeled enemies of the state and transported to prison.

Despite every effort to stay focused on his first calling, healing and medicine, Niall becomes a leader, first on a prison planet, then on the prison space station known as the Abyss. Every time the government changes hands, he and his friends and then his allies in the prison society are labeled conspirators and sympathizers and condemned to yet more imprisonment.

By the time the Abyss is attacked, Niall and his people have become a force to be reckoned with in their goal of freedom…even if it means turning pirate, like the falsely imprisoned nobleman who once sailed the ancient seas, on a ship called the Vendetta.

 

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-925191-35-6    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798227436412    ASIN: B0DJYW7KNX    Word Count: 74,695

 

 

Age 1, Volume 6: Nova Vendetta Part 2: The Truce 

Niall and his crew are just centimeters away from freedom, escaping in the stolen starship they’ve christened the Nova Vendetta. Then disaster strikes, paralyzing their ship. Retaken as prisoners, they find themselves traveling on the very ship that should have been their ticket to freedom.

Just when they’re beginning to despair, the unthinkable happens: Experimental technology and a risky gamble put the ship under their control. The escaped prisoners head for the furthest reaches of known space, determined to stay free at any cost.

Labeled rebels and pirates and criminals, they hold to the principles that have let them survive and stay Human during their time in prison. To the outlying colonies slowly being abandoned by the disintegration of the Central Allied Worlds, the crew of the Nova Vendetta and its slowly growing fleet of allies are heroes in the truest sense of the word.

The revolution reaches out to threaten Niall’s homeworld. Niall knows it’s time to go home. He has to protect Sorendaal, even if it means giving himself into the hands of the very people who want him dead.

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-925191-38-7    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798227061904    ASIN: B0DK1YQZD6    Word Count: 87,893

 

 

Age 1, Volume 7: The Pirate and the Professor 

As civilization crumbles, Kiryn realizes the only way to protect her planet from pirates is to become one herself. She takes up the mantle of her father, a reformed pirate who saved his homeworld. As captain of the legendary pirate ship, Nova Vendetta, she makes her homeworld a haven for the downtrodden. The scholarly representative of a neglected colony comes as a peace envoy and makes her think of more than just surviving. When the two of them are shot down in the badlands of her planet, they become partners to survive, then friends…and finally maybe something more.

 

GENRE: Science Fiction   ISBN: 9781921314889    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798227850720    ASIN: B0DK1ZGYRQ    Word Count: 25, 013

 

 

Age 1, Volume 8: The Talon…The Adventure Begins

It’s a time of turmoil in the Central Allied Worlds when the governor of Rensler, his wife and eldest son are forced to attend a “conference” of colonial governors. They leave the youngest son, Edrian, and the colony in the care of his grandfather, the former governor.

The two begin a secret project by befriending the sentient, nocturnal Nightskimmers.

As Edrian grows up, and unrest intensifies, he learns real heroes sometimes operate in secret. His position as youngest brother of the next governor requires him to present a false face to the world against the day when he must strike out on behalf of the colonists if they’re to keep their freedom.

When the expected revolution does erupt, Edrian’s father and grandfather are taken away, accused of treachery. His older brother flees to the wilderness to lead the rebels, and Edrian and his mother become hostages.

Edrian hides behind his false reputation of being sickly and studious, allowing him to move freely at night, freeing prisoners and striking in defense of the colony. Only a boy on the verge of manhood, yet the Talon’s reputation has already taken root…

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-921314-38-4    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798224753086    ASIN: B00TH8UOZ2    Word Count: 72, 863

 

 

Age 1, Volume 9: The Hero’s Mask

The colony world of Rensler remains under occupation by enemy forces. Erion Rensler, governor, and his father, Elbarto, the former governor, are still prisoners, their location unknown. All that stands between the invaders and success are the Rensler brothers, Eryk and Edrian.

Eryk leads the resistance fighters in the forests of Rensler. Edrian stays under the watchful eye of the enemy, playing a dangerous game of deception. At night, he sheds his pretense of being a sickly book-head and becomes the Talon, defender of the colony, riding on a deadly Nightskimmer…

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-922548-67-2    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798224853014    ASIN: B0DK3VJCSZ    Word Count: 65, 150

 

 

 

Age 1, Volume 10: Song of the Nightskimmer

The legend of the Talon continues to grow.

When Edrian Rensler regains contact with a hidden village that provides a plant vital to his family’s protective elixir, he gains new allies in the battle to defend Rensler.  In coming years, the colony world deals with invaders trying to change Rensler’s society and soul for their own profit and power.

He and the Nightskimmer, Aeza, grow even closer as adulthood brings new challenges. Edrian thinks about the future in new ways, when Aeza takes a mate and urges him to finalize his soul-bond with Aura. Then a series of crises and losses strike the planet, the colony, and the Rensler family, and Edrian risks death to protect and avenge those who hold his heart and soul.

 

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-922548-68-9    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798227456229   ASIN: B0DK3ZVYGB    Word Count: 70, 106

 

 

Age 1, Volume 11: The Saddle and the Sleuth

On the colony world Rensler, the daughter of the Talon, defender of the people, takes over her father’s mask and identity. At the same time, an investigator comes to the colony in search of the Set’ri, to stop them from hastening the disintegration of the galactic civilization. Can the two work together for the sake of the future, or will their necessary deceptions push them apart forever?

 

Genre: Science Fiction/Romance    ISBN: 978-1-921636-55-4    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798227336279    ASIN: B0DK42QKKW   Word Count: 32, 519

 

 

Age 1, Volume 12: Wind Walker

Refugees from the Downfall Wars, separated by centuries of spaceflight, clash on a far distant world. Caught between them are Tayree–native, Wind Walker, visionary, and a recent widow–and Arin, a foundling raised by the invading Colonists.

Tayree’s visions send her to find Arin, stolen from her tribe when he was an infant. She knows him from childhood dreams…and because his twin brother murdered her husband and infant sons in an attempt to possess her. Arin and Tayree could be part of prophecy to bring peace between the Ayanlak natives and the invading Colonists, but only if their hearts can heal.  Tayree has a chance to fill her empty arms, but claiming her rights of recompense from her enemy’s family could destroy the future for her tribe and Arin’s love for her.

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 9781921314667    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798227177339    ASIN: B0DK47Z9W7    Word Count: 87,647

 

 

Age 1, Volume 13: Moonbirds 

K’reeth and her sister, K’rin, were named for the moonbirds–sister raptor birds who share parenting duties, one the nurturer, the other the hunter and defender. Orphaned by catastrophe and adopted by the High Mistrada of the T’bredi scholars, they’re teachers entrusted with all the gathered wisdom of the Ayanlak.

Their bond of sisterhood is tested when K’reeth falls in love with the Wind Walker Talon. The relationship is further strained when the new peace with the Colonist invaders includes a promise to send home all the children who have been rescued by and raised among the Ayanlak–and K’reeth is the first.

Her forced journey to be reunited with a family she doesn’t even remember eventually takes both sisters across the continent and into the nest of political intrigue and contention that may tear their world apart–on the very brink of peace and the fulfillment of ancient prophecy.

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-921636-84-4    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798224838950    ASIN: B0DK4RNKGF    Word Count: 113, 487

 

 

Age 1, Volume 14: The Peace Village

Rescuing K’reeth from her kidnappers brought an epic storm down on their enemies, but common sense said the Dominators were far from defeated. Taron and K’reeth had dreamed of a world where Ayanlak and Na’huma colonists could live together in peace and acceptance. Now that she was pregnant, they needed to make that world a reality, and soon, or their child of two races might never be born.

Admiral Dorwen had a dream of a peace village, where both groups of galactic refugees could learn from each other and learn to share their world, which the Ayanlak had named Storm Shelter and the Na’huma colonists had named Refuge. As fall turned to winter, volunteers gathered and shared ideas, and traveled to the T’bredi enclave, where they would be safe from their enemies, to prepare to start building in the spring.

Touching while meeting together in the Dream Plain had always been forbidden, and the storm created when Taron rescued K’reeth illustrated exactly why. But that discovery sparked curiosity, and K’rin and other scholars delved into the archives to learn more about the Dream Plain, who had learned how to use it, and what else they could do in the realm of the mind. If people could travel wide distances through the Dream Plain–granted, with devastating consequences–what else could travel through it?

The discovery of ancient treasures stored in the Dream Plain, unchanged by the centuries, opened doors of speculation and possibilities, and a chance to delve the secrets of the ancestors.

 

Genre: Science Fiction    ISBN: 978-1-922548-69-6    ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798224875313    ASIN: B0DC4P4TYC    Word Count: 82,953

 

 

AGE II

* Volume 1: Undying (An Order Story)

* Volume 2: Scholar (An Order Story)

* Volume 3: Vision (An Order Story)

* Volume 4: Soloana

* Volume 5: Legacy of the Talon (A Talon Story)

 

AGE III

* Volume 1: Lin of Sunsinger (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 2: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 1: Sunsinger (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 3: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 2: Spacer’s Creed (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 4: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 3: Dead World (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 5: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 4: The Lady and the Order (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 6: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 5: Fever (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 7: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 6: University (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 8: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 7: Leap Ships (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 9: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 8: Aramar (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 10: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 9: Gemar (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 11: Sunsinger Chronicles, Book 10: Scouts (A Sunsinger Story)

* Volume 12: Star Sword (A Sunsinger/Scouts Story)

* Volume 13: Star Dances (sequel to Aramar and a SciFi Romance)

* Volume 15: Hoven Quest (A Hoveni Story)

* Volume 16: Meruk Episodes I – V (A Hoveni Story)

* Volume 17: Meruk Episodes VI – X (A Hoveni Story)

* Volume 18: Meruk Episodes XI – XX (A Hoveni Story)

* Volume 19: Hoven War (A Hoveni Story)

* Volume 20: Virtually Dead (A Khybor Story)

* Volume 21: Kin (Sequel to Virtually Dead – A Khybor Story)

* Volume 22: True Caderi

* Volume 23: Kleintran (A Scouts Story)

* Volume 24: Chorillan Series, Book 1: Azuli Eyes (A Chorillan Story)

* Volume 25: Chorillan Series, Book 2: Scouts’ Pride (A Chorillan Story)

* Volume 26: Chorillan Series, Book 3: By Fire and Stars (A Chorillan Story)

* Volume 27: Chorillan Series, Book 4: Chorillan (A Chorillan Story)

* Volume 28: Chorillan Series, Book 5: Silver Azuli (A Chorillan Story)