On the beautiful world Adalta, a lost colony from Earth is about to come under attack by a forgotten enemy. To Marta, Adalta is just another planet to spy on for the massive trade ship that hides in the skies. Her tough-girl shell cracks when Sidhari, one of Adalta’s majestic flying horses, chooses Marta as her rider, and a soul deep bond begins to form. Still undercover, Marta trains to join the Mi’hiru, the elite all-female Karda guard. Assigned to handsome nobleman Altan’s quadrant, they fight a growing attraction. She has her iron-clad rules—no relationships, no friends, no lovers. She’s not staying on this planet. He’s destined to marry for politics, not love. Flying on patrol with Altan, they spot a village under attack by marauders with smuggled weapons she recognizes from her ship. And she is thrown into a battle between brothers that threatens all of Adalta.

In Hunter, book two of the Adalta series, Tessa, a young girl with a shattered dream, must unite with Galen, a young man with a shattered emotional shell. Tessa’s dream to reclaim her trauma-blocked elemental talent and become a healer fractures when a powerful flying hawk-headed horse claims her as the Austringer, one who hunts with hawks. Instead of learning to heal, she must learn to kill the ancient evil arising on the planet. Galen has no dream, and the emotions he can no longer hide threaten to explode. Assaulted by overwhelming elemental forces from the planet, he becomes the legendary Kern––with power over plants and soil he doesn’t believe in and doesn’t want. When a blood-and-death magician releases an ancient alien imprisoned for centuries, its horrific creatures rise to kill everyone who threatens to block its returning powers and its invasion of the planet. Together Tessa the Hunter and Galen the Kern must fight this alien evil that threatens to enslave their planet. Sherrill Nilson used to raise horses. Now she writes about flying horses.

Daryl Me’Vere faces battle on two fronts. He must face the facts of his brother Readen’s evil and treacherous attempts to rip Restal Quadrant from Daryl’s control. And he must rid the planet of the alien Itza Larrak—the alien everyone but Daryl suspects is his brother's ally—the alien that threatens to bring others of its kind to strip Adalta of all life and energy. And, if that isn't enough––the spaceship hovering above is falling––Adalta is destroying it. Young, scrappy Cedar Evans is appointed to help settle the dying ship's refugees in Daryl’s quadrant. How will these high tech people go from a life surrounded by the safety of their ship’s walls to life on a wide open primitive world with elemental magic they can’t believe in? As bio-systems expert, there’s nothing Cedar doesn’t know about the ship, so she knows that as the ship fails, so will her bionic leg. The leg she’s had since she was a child will not work on the planet. It’s useless—she can’t repair it; she can’t get rid of it, but she can’t let it hold her back. Wars on two fronts, thousands of refugees to settle––how can Cedar, from the failing space ship above, possibly help Daryl? Especially when he feels he has to protect her. She can’t fight. She has a non-working prosthetic leg. She’s defenseless—he thinks. He's wrong.