Starla Dusai is fifteen, deaf—and being held as an enemy combatant by the Indiran Alliance. Willem Jaantzen is a notorious crime lord about to end a fearsome vendetta – and possibly his life. When he learns his goddaughter has been captured by the Alliance, will he able to save her in time? And she, him? STARFALL is the first book in Jessie Kwak’s Durga System series, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi novellas set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven’t managed to leave behind their vices. And that’s very good for business.

Manu Juric is a mediocre bounty hunter. But he’s damn good at reading people and creating unexpected explosions—and that can take you a long way in this business. Not far enough, he learns when he tries to take out one of Bulari’s most notorious crime lords: Willem Jaantzen. After the attempt is horribly botched, Jaantzen spares Manu’s life in exchange for joining up with his motley crew for one small heist. There’s a reason Manu avoids teamwork: it’s the worst. And as the increasingly unpredictable job plunges Manu into an ever-tangling web of uneasy dangers and bristly egos, he realizes he’s going to need to find some allies—fast. And the one man he may need to trust the most is the one he’s been contracted to kill. NEGATIVE RETURN is the second book in Jessie Kwak’s Durga System series, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi novellas set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven’t managed to leave behind their vices. And that’s very good for business.

She thought nothing could come between herself and her new family. She was wrong. It’s been five years since Starla Dusai’s home station was destroyed by the Alliance, and she’s spent every minute searching for evidence that she wasn’t the only survivor. When she receives a tip that her beloved cousin Mona is alive and well on an astroid station out in Durga’s Belt, she drops everything to find her. Thrust into an unfamiliar world of crime cartels and union politics, Starla soon realizes Mona is caught up in a dangerous plot—and that saving her might just mean giving up the new family she’s come to love. If it doesn’t get them both killed first. DEVIANT FLUX is a standalone prequel novella to Jessie Kwak’s Bulari Saga, a fast-paced series of standalone gangster sci-fi novels set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven’t managed to leave behind their vices. And that’s very good for business. For fans of Firefly, the Godfather, and the Expanse.