A deposed empress, a disgraced priest, a mutinous soldier, two con artists, a brilliant scientist, and a lost explorer join forces to prevent evil academics from engineering an army of giants. But the Hunters and scientists of the Academy put up a fight and want payback.

San Martina starts as a crossroads and trading post serving settlers from back east as well as the local tribes. Little do most people know, it holds a secret guarded by Doña Mercedes Vasquez and her family—and their allies, allies who give her advance warning when someone attempts to break in when she’s alone at the hacienda.

The newest member of her uncle’s pirate crew, Nikki’s greatest skill is the con. So much the better if there’s competition. Then that competition becomes a partner—and more—and the two of them seek out a powerful talisman in order to steel it back for the family.

Magical protectors, the members of the four Clans work together to safeguard all of Teerrock. Sierra, one of the youngest of the Ocean Clan, challenges the elders themselves in order to save a doomed species that accidentally migrated to a dangerous location. Next, she and her friends must protect the Clans’ unhatched progeny from vicious attacks.

The crew of Triumph races against volcanos and tsunami as they search for the geologists lost in the planetary catastrophe. If the crew locates the scientists, can they get them out in time? On another mission, they need all their diplomatic skills to prevent all-out war.

Adaeze makes her own rules, always, which didn’t go over so well in the military. So she left and took one of their nuclear-powered submarines with her. Now she wreaks havoc on drug smugglers, arms dealers, and various other unsavory sorts.

Newly-promoted to captain of one of the fleet’s most powerful ships, Dannall faces a battle to win over her own crew. Then the fiercely reclusive Curai’Nal, who adamantly avoid all attempts at contact, suddenly attack one of her people’s colonies. Now Dannall must protect the millions of inhabitants and figure out what provoked the aggression—all while dealing with a crew who could rebel at any moment.

Sheherazade and her crew sail the silk and spice routes of the Indian Ocean. Sometimes she looks out for the interests of the sultan; mostly she sees to her own.

A ship the size of a small planet; a crew from all over the Milky Way. The crew, only three percent of which are humans, could grow to over five million in number by the time the ship reaches its destination in a distant galaxy.

At the vanguard of a new era of science and exploration, the Anillan Project names their first ship Exploration. Each ship in the eventual fleet of three hundred will explore a different galaxy. But that will only happen if Exploration accomplishes its mission, a mission some people want to destroy before it even begins.

Theolonia rarely follows rules—least of all ones she had no hand in making. But she occasionally takes on legitimate work, and now finds herself in a contest with another captain for a particularly valuable prize. Then she finds herself in a contest against dire weather while attempting to rescue a kidnapped oracle.