Mike Shepherd
1) Dominator
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Vicky Peterwald volume 4
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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,...
2) Implacable
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Vicky Peterwald volume 5
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"Grand Duchess Victoria Peterwald wants her Empire back. To do that, she needs to destroy the so-called Security Specialists left behind by the Bowlingame crime family. Vicky has tried to kill the family twice! Still, this snake-like kleptocracy refuses to die! If Grand Duchess Vicky wants her Empire back, she needs to root those snakes out of every hole they've crawled into. Oryol has dropped off the net, but they have a regiment of redcoats...
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Kris Longknife volume 3
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"Born into a family of wealth and political power, Kris Longknife turned her back on high society and followed a different family tradition by joining the Marines. But now she finds herself relieved of duty. She's gotten in the way of someone's agenda--to bring down her father, the Prime Minister of Wardhaven. Now, with the fleet off on a propaganda mission, Warhaven is left bulnerable to enemy warships that establish orbit around the planet demanding...
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Kris Longknife volume 1
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"Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the Prime Minister of her home planet. Her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris's blood-and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the marines. She has a lot to lie up to and a lot to prove in the long-running struggle between her powerful...
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Kris Longknife volume 2
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"Kris Longknife had no choice about growing up rich and pampered. When she did have a choice, she joined the Marines. But now, a friend needs help halfway across the galaxy--and with a military heritage coursing through her blood, it's time for Kris Longknife to be a hero. When Kris Longknife's best friend vanishes, she boards the next ship to Turantic, the last place he was seen alive. But there's more to the rescue than meets the eye. Turantic...
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"The second volume of seminal short science fiction, featuring twenty-six new stories from series such as Wayfarers, Confederation, The Lost Fleet, Waypoint Kangaroo, Ender, Dream Park, the Polity and more. Alongside work from tomorrow's legends, revisit works by masters who helped define the genre, including Arthur C. Clarke and James Blish, and a classic Lensman tale from E.E. 'Doc' Smith. Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers brings you the essential...