Fourteen Tremendous Authors. Fourteen Extraordinary Stories. One Amazing Anthology.An ancient spear of legend warded by a torturer. Swords that define families, for good and ill. Magic too powerful not to use, but too dangerous to keep. It's all here, along with dragons, ogres, and gods both old and new. These fourteen great stories continue universes you know and love, including Glen Cook's Black Company, Jon R. Osborne's Milesian Accords, and D.J. Butler's Tales of Indrajit & Fix. And there are fresh new voices bringing worlds you're going to love. Turn the page and read of valorous deeds and the keen edge of steel, shining in battle.

Everyone likes a good vacation, don't they? You hear the word Vacation and it brings up thoughts of water, sand, refreshing drinks, and fun times. Of course, when your budget matches your monthly grocery bill, expectations have to be lowered, surprises expected, and not usually the good kind. With thirteen stories of action, adventure, horror, and down right knee slapping fun, you'd best buckle up butter cup, you're going on a trailer park Vacation!

In the Galactic Union, few Human corporations are as storied or as well-known as the Intergalactic Haulers. Yet, they're only one piece of a larger story.During the Alpha Contracts, one hundred of Earth's finest mercenary organizations went to the far reaches of the Galaxy to fight for credits. Only four returned. The rest, tens of thousands of humanity's best warriors, were gone. Unbeknownst to most, a small, unconventional group chose a different path. Their foresight and unique talents set the stage not only for the long-haul shipping company of the present day, but of something else.Years later, a promising young mercenary receives an invitation to a strange, secretive shipping company. There, he discovers a shadowy organization dating back to the Alpha Contracts. An organization dedicated to rescuing Human mercenaries and returning them with honor. An organization, which-despite its many faults-restores his faith in humanity. It gives him purpose and earns him his nickname: Bull.Unfortunately, this clandestine company, and their heroic efforts, have not gone unnoticed. When a high profile hostage rescue goes bad, Bull and Jimmy Francis-the young pilot known as Snowman-find themselves searching for a way to create a better, more capable company so that others may live-all while hiding in plain sight.

Book Two of the Fallen Empire Series. 27th century Mercenary companies fight small wars in the ruins of a Fallen alien interstellar empire.

Azure Colony avoided the larger conflicts of the Omega War and Guild Wars, only to fall prey to rogue mercenaries. Now they're rebuilding, but strange forces are at work. New friends on the ground and mysterious lights in the sky promise "interesting times" for the Humans and hyper-intelligent Wrogul of Azure. Meanwhile, mercenary leader Verne and Peacemaker Harryhausen resume their search for the ancestral home of Azure's Wrogul. They encounter distrust, deceit, and misdirection from the all-powerful guilds, but they manage to learn of sightings of Wrogul-like aliens. Their strongest lead takes them to a forgotten system where a lost Human colony coexists with a strange alien race with remarkable similarities to the Wrogul.But when they find the colony is in the middle of a civil war, they're forced to make a choice-do they choose sides or stand by while the colonists slaughter each other?