Karnish River Navigations

Flis Kupe only wants to quit her life enduring the horrors of the interstellar war. Even willing to burn out her embedded arlchip. The device that pumps her miliary talents to the absolute limit.At a cost.Ready to return to a simple life, a cryptic message from her brother Bryce on Paulding throws her plans into disarray. A boarding by merciless river pirates thrusts Flis into a desperate race to make it home. A race that become deadly.

Flis Kupe and Grae Sinder. Former interstellar soldiers. A great investigative team. Even in those moments of running for their lives. Running hard.Caught in a mystery that could bring down multi-planetary companies, Flis and Grae must dodge pirates and cops to find the truth.A truth that comes with a price.A Karnish River Navigations novel that takes you right back to the adventure of the canals. Sean Monaghan is the author of more than one hundred stories, in print, online, on broadcast radio and podcast. His stories include "Concentration" in Landfall, and "The Molenstraat Music Festival" in Asimovs. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his story "Low Arc" Battle weary after years of interstellar war, Flis Kupe returns home to the quiet peaceful Karnish canal lands on Paulding, her home world. Turns out, times change. The turmoil of pirates, brigands and low lives shatters the peace. All too often.

The deep space battleship Persephone Quest crashed on Paulding's surface centuries back.The history books closed long ago. Leaving behind a monument and nothing much else.When people start asking the wrong questions, Flis and Grae find themselves tangled in a tangled and tightening web of deception and corruption.Only one person has the answers. The pilot of Persephone Quest herself.Big problem. The pilot died in the wreck. Three hundred years ago.A standalone novel in the thrilling Karnish River Navigations series. Sean Monaghan is the author of more than one hundred stories, in print, online, on broadcast radio and podcast. His stories include "Concentration" in Landfall, and "The Molenstraat Music Festival" in Asimovs. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his story "Low Arc" Battle weary after years of interstellar war, Flis Kupe returns home to the quiet peaceful Karnish canal lands on Paulding, her home world. Turns out, times change. The turmoil of pirates, brigands and low lives shatters the peace. All too often.

The giant stone block of Vaile Max prison stands on the Karnish plains. Impregnable and escape-proof.Prisoner Cole Dugald waits, release imminent. He wants no trouble.But when authorities demand help from investigator Flis Kupe, trouble looms. For everyone.On a collision course with deadly psychopaths, Cole and Flis must team up to survive.A Karnish River Navigations novel that expands the world with unexpected revelations. Sean Monaghan is the author of more than one hundred stories, in print, online, on broadcast radio and podcast. His stories include "Concentration" in Landfall, and "The Molenstraat Music Festival" in Asimovs. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his story "Low Arc" Battle weary after years of interstellar war, Flis Kupe returns home to the quiet peaceful Karnish canal lands on Paulding, her home world. Turns out, times change. The turmoil of pirates, brigands and low lives shatters the peace. All too often.

Flis Kupe and Grae Sinder, former interstellar soldiers, make a great investigative team. When they're not running for their lives.Caught in a mystery that could bring down multi-planetary companies, Flis and Grae must dodge pirates and cops to find the truth.A Karnish River Navigations novel that takes you right back to the adventure of the canals.

Decades after the diaspora, the vast canal lands of Karnth still support struggling farms.When a sinkhole chews up Dallas Saldon's soil-tuner, and almost takes him too, he knows he needs to rethink his plans. Tough and resilient, Dallas faces challenges with a stoicism born of the land.But the sinkhole proves just the beginning. Placing Dallas and a new arrival in more danger than he knows.Called in to help, Flis Kupe and Grae Sinder face challenges beyond anything from before.Challenges that might just change everything they know about the canal lands.And beyond.A Karnish River Navigations novel that pits the investigators against an unimaginable foe.