Book One - BETRAYAL
Some machines learn to fight. The Ōkami learned something far more dangerous — loyalty.
In the 2060s, AI soldierbots do most of the dying. A shrinking cadre of human officers still bears the burden of leading them. Paul Owens and Kata Vukovic are the best of that cadre — battle-tested, augmented, and chosen to command the Ōkami: a new generation of soldierbots capable of bonding with their human leaders. In the lawless killing grounds of the Southern Cone, where a Chinese-sponsored warlord is pushing them toward the breaking point, that bond is the only thing standing between Paul's unit and annihilation.
But the real threat isn't on the battlefield. Ruthless entrepreneur Fiona Malloy is pulling strings that reach from the boardroom to the front lines — the latest face of an appetite for profit and power as old as war itself — willing to sacrifice anything, and anyone, to win.
Book Two - ODYSSEUS
Paul Owens thought the void between Earth and the asteroid belt was far enough to outrun his sins.
He was wrong.
Six years after Los Olvidados, Paul is serving his sentence aboard the deep space freighter Odysseus — stripped of rank, cut off from everything he loved, and haunted by the memories of what he has done and lost. The plan is simple: survive the voyage. Earn his freedom. Make Fiona Malloy pay.
When catastrophe cripples the ship and the crew begins to die, Paul realizes it was no accident. Someone has put a plan in motion all the way from Earth, and the only ally Paul has on the Odysseus is Althea, a beautiful synthetic.
Back on Earth, Fiona Malloy hasn't forgotten Paul Owens. She has money, reach, and people willing to do whatever she asks. And she's using all of it. The void between Earth and the belt may be vast, but Fiona has never let distance — or anyone — stand in her way.
Paul wants revenge. Fiona wants him gone. The reckoning is coming.
Book Three - SACRIFICE
Paul Owens finally has what he's always wanted — a ship, a crew, and a shot at Fiona Malloy.
None of it will matter if they don't survive what's coming.
Hidden in the void aboard the stolen Perseus, Paul and his unlikely crew are running out of time. The Company wants their ship back and has sent a gunboat to take it. Fiona Malloy still wants Paul dead and has people hunting him across the solar system. Ruthless pirates have caught the Perseus’s scent too. And somewhere in the dark between Mars and the asteroid belt, something far darker and stranger than any of them has fixed its eyes on the Perseus.
Forces are closing in. None of them are coming to help.
Every crew member — human and machine alike — will be asked to give something they cannot get back. Some will. Some won't. And nothing will be the same when it's over.
Book Four - GHOSTS
Paul Owens survived a cataclysm in the void aboard the Perseus. Now all he wants is revenge.
More determined than ever to get back to Earth to avenge his comrades, first he must save Althea from the dark sphere ship that took her. He doesn’t have much to bring to the fight—a damaged ship limping through the void with a skeleton crew, a pirate captain with half a leg, a former first sergeant who woke up in the wrong body, and a haunting, enraged presence he can no longer ignore.
On the other side of the solar system, Fiona fights her own war. New agendas. New murders. The same ruthless arithmetic. And still looking for Paul Owens.
And inside the sphere, alone in the wreckage of murdered ships, Althea fights her way toward one thing: the truth at the heart of what holds her — and what it might do to the monster if she gets there.
Two things haunt the space between them: what Paul lost, and what Althea is becoming.