Mike Shepherd

"The war is over. Hooray! Half the fleet is back in mothballs, but out on the rim of human space, ships are disappearing. Some are merchant ships going about their. business. Others are exploration ships on deep space probes. What's happening to them? Captain Rita Nuu Longknife is ready to take the heavy cruiser Exeter to space and see what's there. She may have a nursery next to the captain's cabin and a two month old baby on her hip, but she's taking...

Everyone has known since Kris Longknife – Mutineer that Kris ran off to join the Navy after graduating college much to her parents' dismay. However, the story has never been told of how that came to pass. Worse, how does a scion of the Longknife clan survive that massive drop in social levels, plummeting from the Prime Minister's brat to a lowly Boot Recruit. Here, at last, is the story in all it's fuss and feathers still on this rare bird. Enjoy....

Sandy Santiago has problems coming out her ears. Granny Rita Longknife is on the warpath. All the workers are out on strike. Worse, the murderous alien raiders are testing Alwa's defense perimeter. Once she has her house in order, Sandy is strongly thinking of getting her own good look at what appears to be the alien home world. Last time Kris Longknife visited the place, she threw some serious shade on the aliens. Dare Sandy return? Might the aliens...

How do you win a war lost 6,000 years ago and change all history? What if you win that war, but find, 6,000 years in that future, that you don't much like the changes? Come with Launa and Jack to the exciting conclusion of the Lost Millennium Trilogy as they discover what they have done ... and find themselves 6,000 years from where they can do something about it. Can they make it? You're talking about Launa and Jack, right? Watch them make it all...

As a freelance CIA operative, Mick Scott was no stranger to danger. He had infiltrated the violent Weather Underground, and now he was assigned to pose as a Russian correspondent for Radio Moscow while actually reporting on the atrocities of Pol Pot in Cambodia for Voice of America. In the process, he helped to liberate a young French/Cambodian woman named Lovea Duval, who in the midst of Pol Pot's murderous rampage, emerged as the leader of a counterinsurgency...

Princess Kris Longknife is Viceroy, repesenting the Royal United Society to the alien Alwans. She commands a battle fleet in orbit and leads a major industiral effort to support that fleet. She's got a lot of people working with her... and they'd like some vacation time. Better yet, they'd like a stake in the planet Alwa that they're defending. They want homesteads. That means land, and Kris Longknife is very sensitive to her own Native American roots....

This is the third book with Grand Admiral Sandy Santiago serving as Kris Longknife's Relief, then Replacement, and now Successor on Alwa. She has all the challenges a gal could ask for. Granny Rita is on the rampage, and the cats have gone on strike. Leaving the Colonials to deal with Granny Rita, Sandy heads off to work with the cats, only to discover she is not the only one who has a bone to pick with them - alien monsters have a vendetta as well!...

How do you win a battle lost 6,000 years before you were born? How do you make sure that winning that battle doesn't lose you the war? Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear have won their first battle and made their first recruits. But the whole steppe is up in arms and the tribes are wandering. How do they create a peace that will last 6,000? Here is the exciting continuation of the saga started in First Dawn.

Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald has everything. A loving fiance who's soon to be her husband, adoring crowds, and she gets to share her golden wedding carriage with Kris Longknife. What more could a girl want? Well, the Emperor, her father, could have showed up to walk her down the aisle, but she's not really bothered about that. Then suddenly, she is. It turns out that he didn't make the wedding because he's broke and living nearly homeless in an abandoned,...