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It's dangerous to get too close to one of those damn Longknife. So Senior Chief Agent in Charge Foile volunteers to get too damn close to the whole family of Longknifes. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Kris Longknife feared the survival of the entire human race might hang on what her Grampa Al did next – but she couldn't figure out what he was up to. After a career in the Wardhaven Bureau of Investigations, Foile was good at finding out...
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How do you win a battle lost 6,000 years before you were born? How do you make sure that winning that battle doesn't lose you the war? Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear have won their first battle and made their first recruits. But the whole steppe is up in arms and the tribes are wandering. How do they create a peace that will last 6,000? Here is the exciting continuation of the saga started in First Dawn.
3) Dominator
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Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald has everything. A loving fiance who's soon to be her husband, adoring crowds, and she gets to share her golden wedding carriage with Kris Longknife. What more could a girl want? Well, the Emperor, her father, could have showed up to walk her down the aisle, but she's not really bothered about that. Then suddenly, she is. It turns out that he didn't make the wedding because he's broke and living nearly homeless in an abandoned,...
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The victory parades are over and half the fleet is back in mothballs. The Navies better start getting them back in Commission! Rita Longknife, commander of the heavy cruiser Exeter, has proof. Proof that there is something else out there. Proof we are not alone in the galaxy. Aboard her ship is evidence that we have blown up an alien ship, and they have blown up one of ours. So far, contact with the aliens is being made by pirates, the worst scum...
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This is the third book with Grand Admiral Sandy Santiago serving as Kris Longknife's Relief, then Replacement, and now Successor on Alwa. She has all the challenges a gal could ask for. Granny Rita is on the rampage, and the cats have gone on strike. Leaving the Colonials to deal with Granny Rita, Sandy heads off to work with the cats, only to discover she is not the only one who has a bone to pick with them - alien monsters have a vendetta as well!...
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Kris Longknife has been ordered back to human space. Admiral Sandy Santiago has the job of replacing her. However, an any mere mortal fill a Longknife's shoes? Kris Longknife's shoes?
Sandy has problems. Lots of problems. She's got alien birds that don't want to use money. Alien cats with their paws on the nuclear button. Alen monsters that want a rematch so they can kill every human.
Oh, and she's got Rita Nuu Longknife on her hands. How can a...
7) First Dawn
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Launa O'Brian's first assignment right out of West Point is beyond strange. They want her to help a peaceful band of farmers win a war lost 6,000 years before she was born! The Army has a time machine. They even tested it once. It didn't work, but trust them, they fixed it.
With the entire US Army to choose from, they picked Captain Jack Walking Bear for her partner. A combat vet, he's got a while different idea about this mission. But the Presicent's...
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Sandy Santiago has problems coming out her ears. Granny Rita Longknife is on the warpath. All the workers are out on strike. Worse, the murderous alien raiders are testing Alwa's defense perimeter. Once she has her house in order, Sandy is strongly thinking of getting her own good look at what appears to be the alien home world. Last time Kris Longknife visited the place, she threw some serious shade on the aliens. Dare Sandy return? Might the aliens...
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Grand Admiral, Her Royal Highness Kris Longknife is up to her ears in problems..again.While summoned to the Imperial Iteeche Court to be humanity's Emissary, it turns out that what the Iteeche really want is a fighting admiral!You see, they've got this huge civil war going, and the Imperial side isn't doing so well. Kris now has command of the entire Imperial Combined Fleet. Sort of.The Iteeche Empire has a ten-thousand-year long history. There is...
10) Indomitable
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Grand Admiral, Her Royal Highness Kris Longknife, commander of the Iteeche Imperial Combined Fleets has the enemy on the run. Literally. The last time she entered a rebel system, every disloyal ship picked up its skirts and ran.So why has she been ordered, as in requested and required, to make a formal report to the Emperor? Ron the Iteeche and his two young Iteeche Counselors have little to say on the subject except that some Iteeche think Kris is...
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Princess Kris Longknife is Viceroy, repesenting the Royal United Society to the alien Alwans. She commands a battle fleet in orbit and leads a major industiral effort to support that fleet. She's got a lot of people working with her... and they'd like some vacation time. Better yet, they'd like a stake in the planet Alwa that they're defending. They want homesteads. That means land, and Kris Longknife is very sensitive to her own Native American roots....
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Rita Longknife has had enough of sitting home and watching General Ray Longknife gallivant around the universe. No sooner does she deliver little Al Nuu Longknife than ships start disappearing out on the rim of human space. Is it pirates, or is there something more sinister. Just because half the fleet is back in mothball, Rita's not going to sit around and let this happen.
Rita swappes her Attack Transport rank of pilot for a full commission as...
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Admiral Kris Longknife should have known the job offer was too good. Really, she knew by now that what was too good to be true really, really isn't. Still, she jumped at the chance to be the first human emissary to the Iteeche Empire.
Only when she got there, and met the Emperor, a teenage kid swamped by his throne, did Kris find out that there was a little civil war going on in the Iteeche Empire. The loyal forces were losing, and they needed the...
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The cover story features Nikki, who always wanted to work on the moon, but she figured she'd have to wait until she was out of high school. But her first job is working on the moon! Bummer, she's only delivering pizza...from her room in her folks house, but hey, she's working on the moon. It's a start.
Another story features a heroine who grew up with the Program. Which meant Dad was usually gone and Mom was usually talking up PR for the Program....
17) Lost Dawns
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From the Nebula Nominated and New York Times Best Selling Author, Mike Shepherd, comes the long-lost story of how Launa O'Brian and Jack Walking Bear got sucked into the impossible. This has never been available before. Follow our two courageous troopers as they prepare for an insane mission even as the world around them descends into its own insanity.
18) Lost Days
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How do you win a war lost 6,000 years ago and change all history? What if you win that war, but find, 6,000 years in that future, that you don't much like the changes? Come with Launa and Jack to the exciting conclusion of the Lost Millennium Trilogy as they discover what they have done ... and find themselves 6,000 years from where they can do something about it. Can they make it?
You're talking about Launa and Jack, right? Watch them make it all...
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