Baron Lucius Giovanni, Captain of the battleship War Shrike, finds himself without a home or nation, his ship heavily damaged, and crew in bad shape. The odds against their personal survival are slim. The time of humanity has come to a close. The great nations have all fallen, either to the encroaching alien threats or to internal fighting and civil war. The aliens who seek to supplant humanity, however, have not taken one thing into account: Lucius Giovanni. He and his crew will not give up – not while they still draw breath. If this is to be the fall of humanity, then the crew of the War Shrike will go down fighting...and in the heat of that fight, they may just light a new fire for humanity....

Baron Lucius Giovanni has managed to buy the human race a brief reprieve from the two alien races which seek humanity’s extinction. In the process he has become the leader of a new nation and the commander of a powerful fleet. However, victory comes with consequences. Without an imminent threat, old feuds have sparked back to life and tenuous alliances falter. There are also old enemies who cannot forget that Lucius has what they wanted. He must find a way to hold off scheming rivals, sociopathic psychics, and even former friends. If he can’t do all that and take the fight to humanity’s true enemies, billions may die under alien servitude.

Baron Lucius Giovanni has done the not only has he held the alien Chxor at bay, he has taken the fight to them and liberated human worlds. Yet humanity's implacable foe has drawn a line in the sand. They will hold Nova Roma at all costs... or see it a scorched ruin. Lucius must aid Nova Roma's Emperor and liberate his homeworld, but along the way he must also deal with old and new adversaries and with a conspiracy that seeks to usurp control of his fleet. Nova Roma's Emperor is going home, and Lucius will go beside him, for if he cannot overcome these obstacles, then humanity's last hope will be overcome and the Chxor will enslave and exterminate the remaining free worlds

You can never go home. Alannis Giovanni has followed in her family's footsteps and joined the United Colonies Fleet. As a bare Ensign, she's been assigned to the Fleet's newest, most powerful cruiser, the Constellation, on it's maiden voyage: a simple show-the-flag mission that should be good for her to learn what it is to be an officer. But things are never simple. At their most distant port, they come across allies in need. The Ghornath species are in search of their origins and an array of enemies are trying to stop them. The crew of the Constellation will have to face pirates, aliens, and uncover a ten thousand-year-old secret in order not just to save their allies, but to thwart a threat that might well catch the rest of the Fleet off-guard. These battles will test Alannis, force her to grow and become the officer that her position and blood demand of her... yet the greatest threat may be one she is the least prepared to face.

The greatest threat is the one that you don't see coming. Lieutenant Alannis Giovanni has proven herself in battle, but now she has to face a far more personal threat. Her ex-husband, Reese, plans to activate an alien superweapon located at the Temple of Light that could devastate entire star systems and Alannis is the only one who can stop him. She and the crew of the UCS Constellation will have to fight off Reese's other pursuers, infiltrate pirate bastions, and defeat aliens bent upon the destruction of humanity in an effort to stop Reese from activating the superweapon. It's a dangerous mission, one where a single misstep could not only doom entire star systems, but embroil the United Colonies in a multiway war. Yet Alannis has little choice. She has to stop her ex-husband no matter the cost. It's a race to the Temple of Light, and whoever gets there first will have the power to destroy worlds.

Lieutenant Commander Forrest Perkins is haunted by ghosts. He's lost his ship and most of his crew, he's been accused of being an enemy agent, and the woman he has come to love has been officially declared dead. He's a man with nothing left to lose... which is why he's about to do the unthinkable. His plan is simple: steal a prototype warship, assemble a crew, and hunt down the man behind all this: Marius Giovanni. To do that, he's going to have to find a place whose location is shrouded in mystery. It's a star system that has been erased from the star charts, a star system of ancient alien ruins, rumored to be haunted and cursed, and a place where death and misery befalls all who venture there. Forrest will have to go to the Ghost Star. Where better to bring the woman he loves back from the dead?