Brand new stories from ten of the finest authors in the world, including Stephen Coonts, Dale Brown and Larry Bond.

Sergeant Kendra Pacelli is innocent, but that doesn't matter to the people pursuing her. Mistakes might be made, but never acknowledged, especially when billions of embezzled dollars are at stake. But where does one run when all Earth and most settled planets are under the aegis of one government?

For Colin Maclntyre, it began with a routine training flight over the moon. For Dahak, a battleship, it began millennia ago, standing guard against an unknown enemy, which once devastated the galaxy and now has returned. Dahak grabbed Maclntyre's ship and informed him that he is to be its captain and lead the fight against the ancient enemy.

In the wake of the peace accord between the Republic of Cinnabar and the Alliance, former warriors Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy make a living escorting wealthy nobles on an expedition to a remote section of the universe and find themselves taking on winged dragons, jealous lover

If the corrupt Empire ruling most of planet Hafardine falls, so will the last remnants of civilization left behind when galactic civilization collapsed long ago. Only two men see the coming disaster, and have a plan to save the future.

Conquered by the Jao twenty years ago, the Earth is shackled under alien tyranny - and threatened by the even more dangerous Ekhat, who are sending a genocidal extermination fleet to the solar system. Humanity's only chance rests with an unusual pair of allies: a young Jao prince, newly arrived to Terra to assume his duties, and a young human woman brought up amongst the Jao occupiers. But they ..