Project Gleise 581g

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author S. E. Smith brings another action-, adventure-, and suspense-filled story to transport listeners out of this world. In a world gone crazy, it is often the humans who are at fault, seeking answers to questions we are not yet ready to understand. Lt. Commander Joshua Manson's focus on his career has taken him to many places, just not the one he has always dreamed of going: space. His sometimes controversial methods during missions have given him the reputation of being a soldier who doesn't always play by the rules. A challenging mission leaves Josh questioning if he'll have a career at all, so he is surprised when he is offered the chance to command a mission in space to investigate an unknown object. The more he learns, the more determined he is to lead it, even if it means a one-way ticket. Cassa de Rola's family has lived for centuries in the quiet valley where they farm. Her family has tried to remain untouched by the growing unrest between the intergalactic military forces fighting for control over their planet. All of that changes when an unusual object falls from the sky and Cassa finds a strange male in the container. She knows that taking him in will endanger the lives of everyone close to her, but she can't leave him defenseless. Now the military forces on both sides want to discover the origins of the container and its missing contents. When the fight between the Legion and the Gallant Order escalates to all-out war, a new rebel leader emerges from the stars that will change the galaxy, and Cassa's life, forever.

Lieutenant Commander Ashton "Ash" Haze has always embraced two things in his life: adventure and women. But when he awakens on an alien planet, there's no time for anything other than survival-or so he thinks. Kella Ta'Qui is one of the Turbinta-a guild that discards their genetic identities in favor of what they train to become: assassins. Kella has been honing this deadly skill set since she was taken from her home as a child to train. Her first mission is to find and kill whatever was inside the unusual capsule that landed on Tesla Terra, but predator becomes prey when she is wounded by her target. Dazed and confused, she stumbles into a group who plan to sell her to the highest bidder-until a rescuer appears. Ash has always been a troublemaker, and his Navy training ensured that he was able to handle almost anything thrown his way in the past. But when he enters a city in the middle of the desert and discovers a wounded alien woman, nothing could have prepared him for how she affects him. He soon learns that she knows where his fellow crew member might be located, and that knowledge unwittingly thrusts him into the middle of a local civil war. The fight begins, and the race is on to find the other members of Project Gliese 581g crew before the Legion does. Can an easygoing Navy pilot and an alien assassin work together to reach the location of one of the other capsules on the cutthroat Turbintan planet, or will Ash find himself served up to the Legion for the highest number of credits? Whatever happens, the war has begun with the first awakening of the resistance-a resistance that Ash unwittingly volunteered to fight for.

Two warriors-one mission: survival ...Sergi Lazaroff is a weapons expert and a spy for the Russian FSB. Assigned to the Project Gliese 581g exploration team as a mission specialist, his job was supposed to be simple-learn all he could about the man-made object in space that no one from Earth made, and return home to convey that valuable information to the FSB. When he wakes up on an alien planet in an escape pod, Sergi knows the last part of his mission will be impossible. Instead, he'll have to use every trick he has to survive in a world where he doesn't know the rules. La'Rue Gant has landed on a planet belonging entirely to assassins for one reason only: one of the mysterious pods that everyone is looking for landed here. It's worth a lot of credits, and she currently needs credits so desperately that she'll even take them from the Director of the Legion himself: Andronikos. In the meantime, she's trying very hard not to think about how many lives Andronikos has destroyed in this ridiculous war, or why he's so interested in someone bringing him these pods, because she needs to collect this bounty! The pod itself was surprisingly not difficult to find, but actually getting it to her ship when the competition and the previous occupant of the pod are larking about ... is proving a bit difficult ... really, really difficult. The hunter becomes hunted, and nothing is turning out like La'Rue thought it would ...Caught in the middle of an alien civil war, two fighters from vastly different backgrounds must come together to fight for the survival of the Knights of the Gallant Order as the Legion forces close in around them. Can they slip through the traps set up to snare them, or will the Legion Director finally capture not one, but two of the prophesied ancient Knights of the Gallant Order?

The war for the future has begun. The past will not be forgotten. Some bonds are forged in honor… General Roan Landais was raised to be a weapon, forged in the fires of war by his father and uncle's ruthless ambition. Now, branded a traitor, he's hunted across the galaxy-by the very family that created him. Dr. Julia Marksdale awakens in a distant world, thrust into a war she barely understands. With nowhere to turn, she's forced to trust the one man whose loyalty is the most uncertain. Roan is ruthless, calculating, and everything she should fear. Yet, beneath the hardened soldier, she sees something else-a man fighting for more than survival. A man who may be the only hope of stopping an unstoppable weapon. As the Legion prepares to unleash planet-killing technology, Roan and Julia must join forces with the Gallant rebels and Julia's fellow Gliese survivors to strike before it's too late. But in the cold void of space, second chances don't exist-only the choice between defying fate or dying with it. Join the Ancient Knights of the Gallant in the fight for freedom-and discover the power of hope in the darkest of battles. Internationally acclaimed S.E. Smith has done it again! Characters you will love, adventure you won't forget. Prologue Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Epilogue Author's Note