The Four Devils
Set after the events of The Lesser Devil, this novelette picks up the story of Crispin Marlowe and his sister Sabine, as word reaches Devil’s Rest that a certain lost Marlowe lord has been found… How will Lord Alistair react? And has anyone told Lady Liliana?
The Dragonslayers
Quentin Sharp is a centurion in the Imperial Legions, a soldier, and a simple man. His mission is equally simple: rescue the young Countess Irina Volsenna from the Cielcin and the ruins of her burnng world. Deep behind enemy lines, without backup, Sharp and his men must defeat one of the iron giants of the enemy: a colossal war machine deadly as any battleship.
Fire in the Sky
A Cielcin horde has attacked the peaceful farming colonies on Cordalos, and Iana, a simple peasant girl, can only run and hide. But she is not alone, and when she gets separated from her brother, she must summon up the barest scrap of heroism to defend her home however she can.
Good Intentions
Before she met Hadrian, Valka Onderra Vhad Edda traveled the galaxy, digging through alien ruins on more than a dozen worlds in her efforts to better understand the Quiet, an ancient civilization of advanced, extinct alien xenobites apparently lost to time. Her journeys have brought her to the planet Sadal Suud, where the great clay Giants suffer beneath the whips of mankind. Unable to bear such injustice, Valka must choose not only to act, but to suffer the consequences of action, whatever they may be.
Kill the King
The Extrasolarian warlord Calen Harendotes has been amassing an army on the borders of the Sollan Empire for centuries, gathering refugees displaced by the Cielcin to himself. The hermit Monarch’s motives are wholly unknown, but his presence can no longer be tolerated. To this end, the Emperor has dispatched one lonely assassin to deal with the petty upstart once and for all. Unfortunately for him, not all is as it seems on distant Latarra, and there’s far more to Calen Harendotes than meets the eye . . . .