Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Extended edition with new material.
Somewhere out in space, humanity's past is about to catch up with its future.
When Morgan Selwood's spaceship is stranded in unknown space she is relieved to be rescued by humanoid aliens. But her unusual appearance and her extraordinary technical abilities mean that everybody wants a piece of her.
Who's it to be? Autocratic Admiral Ravindra, who press-gangs her to help against a shadowy threat from the stars,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Grand Admiral Chaka Saahren has the rewards of rank
...but he doesn't have Systems Engineer Allysha Marten. Determined to keep her safe, Saahren will go to any lengths to win back the woman he loves. Allysha agrees to temporary employment by the Fleet, hoping to avoid at all costs the man she believes responsible for the death of innocent civilians, including her estranged father.
Sean O'Reilly has a plan...
...and it involves hijacking Allysha...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Chet, Toreni, and Jirra rescue Marisa, mistress of Shar Burk's brutal governor Soldar, from certain death they think they're just helping a fellow woman to a new life. But what did Marisa do to earn a death sentence? Is it just a couple of dictators flexing their muscles? Or something much more dangerous? They set off to follow a tenuous trail where Marisa discovers there's a whole new world off Shar Burk space station and men much nicer than...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Follow your dreams. You never know where they might take you.
Jirra's on the run, Siena's rescuing her lover, Toreni wants Master Chef status and Chet wants her reputation back. Four women, four goals, and one very small ship. Add a fleet request to free a rebel, the promise of little to no help and a caste-defined society simmering with discontent on the edge of explosion.
Now, on their own, they're staging an escape from a backwater prison planet...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A distant star has exploded. The ripples of its passing will rock the Empire.
When fate throws Brent Walker and Tian Axmar together, it's strictly a business arrangement. She's an Imperial agent with a problem to solve, he's a space jockey with an empty bank balance and a tramp freighter for hire.
Somebody's murdering Yrmaks and Humans, and leaving a mysterious calling card. Somebody wants interspecies war. Tian hires Brent to help her investigate,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Iron Admiral: Conspiracy and the Iron Admiral: Deception combined in one big volume.
The Iron Admiral: Conspiracy
On a remote planet a deadly virus is resurrected. If it is released, the Galaxy will be plunged into inter-species war.
Thrust together in a race against time, ex-Admiral Chaka Saahren and Systems Engineer Allysha Marten, must resolve their differences to solve the political crisis which has brought the Galaxy to the brink.
The...
Author
Language
English
Description
Three exciting stories from the Dryden Universe (note: all have been previously published individually)
A Matter of Trust
Pursued by her father's agents Princess Amira races across the galaxy in a desperate search for a safe haven. Amid simmering tensions at the edge of the Empire, she renews her acquaintance with Imperial Admiral Ul-Mellor. But what will he do when faced with a choice - Amira or his hard-won commission?
The Demon's Eye
Escaping...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Admiral Goran Chandler suddenly turns up in Ella's restaurant her comfortable world is thrown into turmoil. Ten years ago he'd been a senior commander, and captain of the frigate Antelope. She had been Lieutenant Bulich then, and he'd kicked her off his ship.
With unexpected danger threatening, and a killer stalking the corridors of the Hotel Majestic, Ella and the admiral must work together to escape with their lives before they can consider...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When history professor Olivia Jhutta receives a distress call from her parents, she sets out into space with their business partner, her grandmother and injured Confederacy Admiral Jak Prentiss to find them. But she's not the only one interested in the Jhutta's whereabouts. The Helicronians believe Olivia's parents have found an ancient weapon which they can use to wage war on the Confederacy.
Jak goes on the trip to fill in time while he's on enforced...
10) Rescuing Romila
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Misfits are off on another planet-hopping adventure.
When Jirra and Toreni rescue Romila from a raid on her antiques business the Misfits start off on a mission to uncover a drug-smuggling operation. A new, very potent drug is on the market, hidden in statues of ice warriors carved on a remote world.
But all's not well within the team. Toreni and Chet have fallen out, Toreni has received an offer that might be too good to refuse, and Jirra has...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Newly-promoted Captain Brett Butcher is about to achieve his life-long ambition to command a battle cruiser. But before he takes up his new posting, he goes home on leave, hoping to perhaps catch a glimpse of his first love, the unattainable Lady Tarlyn.
When the queen is assassinated in a terrorist attack, Tarlyn's life is thrown into turmoil when she, too, becomes a target. The last person she expects to rescue her is her childhood sweetheart,...
12) The Demon's Eye
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Krystina Merkos is reluctant to leave her home planet, but agrees it's best that her father doesn't have to concern himself with her safety while he fights a civil war. The journey on an Imperial warship becomes much more palatable when she discovers that Ben Paulsen, an old flame from her high school days, is a senior officer on the ship. But it's not all plain sailing. The captain wants to seduce her, Ben's trying to keep his distance - and pirates...
13) Morgan's Return
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When you delve into ancient history you never know what strange forces you might unleash.
When Morgan Selwood and Admiral Ashkar Ravindra travel to Morgan's Human Coalition to learn more about the origin of Ravindra's people, their relationship is soon sorely tested. Morgan is amongst her own people and Ravindra is overprotective and insecure, afraid of losing her. But not everyone is keen to welcome Morgan home, not when they'd gone to all that...
14) Starheart
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Freighter Captain Jess Sondijk has her life under control until the Confederacy's Admiral Hudson boards her ship in a search for contraband. Sondijk and Hudson have their own set of questions. For Jess, it's a matter of her husband's perhaps not so accidental death. For Hudson, it's that somebody's trading with the alien Ptorix - and offering them a large enough prize to induce them to part with their beloved starhearts, the jewels they call the windows...
Author
Language
English
Description
When opposites attract, explosions are sure to follow… Sara York's fight began during a bloody episode on her planet that left her vowing justice. Now, she hides her true identity behind a respectable job as a freight operator. Her mission is simple: orchestrate raids, hijacks, and piracy to support the rebels. Everything was going according to plan until Fyn reappeared in her life. Confederacy Fleet Admiral Fyn Nielsen's new assignment is to assist...
16) Retribution
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Tensions simmer on a world where Humans blame Yrmaks for their defeat in a recent war. For Celia Whitley, former head of Imperial Security and director of Humans First, it's a great place to incite an interspecies war. All it takes is money and weapons – and she can organize both. Revenge over the Yrmaks who murdered her husband will be hers. Imperial agent Tian Axmar wants Whitley dead – but her boss insists the woman be brought back to face...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
She's a legend and a mystery One hundred years ago the pirate ship Crimson Lady terrorized the space lanes, then she disappeared without a trace, leaving behind nothing but tall tales and legends. Until Tara Wyndham finds an artefact from the lost ship Rys Kovas made a mistake when he left Fleet to take over his uncle's tourist business. He jumps at the chance to hire out his luxury yacht to go hunting for a ghost ship with the lovely Tara and her...
Author
Language
English
Description
Three complete stories from the Dryden universe starring Tian, Brent – and PussEye of the MotherWhen fate throws Brent Walker and Tian Axmar together, it's strictly a business arrangement. She's an Imperial agent with a problem to solve, he's a space jockey with an empty bank balance and a tramp freighter for hire. Somebody's murdering Yrmaks and Humans. Somebody wants interspecies war. Tian hires Brent to help her investigate. It's an increasingly...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Penticton Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. Items must be over 1 year old.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service for new books published this year. Submit Request