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Dead Reckoning
WNS Pathfinder is a breakthrough in interstellar travel, built in the utmost secrecy and incorporating new technology that will revolutionize trade and exploration in the galaxy. Secrets are impossible to keep, however, and when word gets out, everyone wants to get their hands on her.
Captain William Brighton loses her to forces loyal to a competing government and is cast adrift in a small launch along with part of the officers and crew. With few resources, it would seem the best option would be to put down on a nearby planet and wait for rescue. But Brighton will not allow them to stay. If there is any hope of retrieving their lost ship, they must find a way to rescue themselves before Pathfinder is out of reach for good.
The odds are stacked against them. Pursued by soldiers who also want the new technology, running out of food, generating their own power, without a working navigation system, they cling to the slimmest of hopes; that their captain’s reckoning can keep them from ending up dead.
Day of Reckoning
Ensign Monica Samuels is in deep trouble.
Just six weeks after her graduation from the Warner Naval Academy, WNS Pathfinder, her ship, is stolen by other members of the crew. They round up everyone and put them off the ship, but at the last minute, her captain sends her back to join with the thieves.
No instructions, no plans, no weapons, no backup.
What was Captain Brighton thinking?
There’s no way to tell now, but she had better figure it out fast. The thieves are getting closer to delivering Pathfinder, her secret is only one slip away from being discovered, and there’s no one on the ship she can trust; but Samuels has vowed to do her duty and protect her ship.
In order to do that, she must bring those responsible to their Day of Reckoning!
Force of Reckoning
Commodore William Brighton was sure that losing his ship, WNS Pathfinder, to thieves within his own crew was the worst thing he would ever have to deal with.
Now he knows that his ordeal is just beginning.
As soon as he makes it back to Earth, the chase is on to find and retrieve Pathfinder. But the longer he spends in pursuit, the more evidence he uncovers that the enemies of his government are more numerous and better prepared than anyone on Earth is aware.
As deep as the conspiracy runs, though, those enemies will soon learn that William Brighton is a force to be reckoned with!
Forged by Betrayal
Captain Sheli Chowdhury is a Marine who has no experience with war, but who, after spending several weeks on a new planet, finds herself in the middle of a violent and bloody revolution.
She wants to do her duty and bring her people through the conflict safely and she works hard to achieve that goal, but when she finds out that the enemy is not who they all believed, she has to fight her way back to the capitol to rescue her General and the Governor’s daughter before it is too late.
But, this may be impossible because the real enemy is one of their own and is at the General’s side even now.
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Final Reckoning
Captain William Brighton has done what he set out to do.
With Lieutenant Samuels’ help, he has reclaimed his stolen ship, WNS Pathfinder. But for how long can he keep it?
In what should have been friendly territory, Brighton finds himself surrounded by enemy warships. The Forrest Family knows all too well how much is riding on the outcome of the battle that is taking shape, and they are pulling out all the stops to keep the ship for themselves.
The stakes are just as high for Brighton and his dauntless officers and crew. Risking their lives is part of the oath they all took when joining the Warner Navy, but if Brighton cannot somehow keep the new technology Pathfinder represents from falling back into Forrest’s hands, the future of the Warner Family would be bleak at best.
For both sides, there is no possibility of surrender or retreat. Brighton must use every resource he has, every trick or maneuver he’s ever known, and every speck of cleverness he can muster to try to carry the day.
His fear is that, in the final reckoning, all of it may not be enough.
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Outward Bound
William Brighton is graduating from the Warner Naval Academy. His world should be perfect, but someone is out to keep him from accepting the chance of a lifetime. What can a Born Explorer do when he's unjustly grounded?
Monica's family has discovered a serious problem, one that could spell ruin for everyone. Now she's being asked to sacrifice everything to save the rest. At 16, she's always given Whatever the Family Needs, but this time, are they asking too much?
Cadets Hayes and Mitchell go camping and hiking for their Senior Year Break from the Warner Naval Academy. How were they supposed to know one of them would be mistaken for a Warner Corporate Board-Member’s son and they would both be kidnapped? Now they are Lost and Alone in the wilderness and wondering if they will ever get the chance to graduate, ...or survive.
Plus, two more complete stories from the Reckoning Universe!