Series
Origins of Destiny
Before she ever set foot on a generation ship, Tanis Richards was a rising officer in the Terran Hegemony's military — running boarding actions, undercover operations, and black ops across InnerSol. Origins of Destiny is a hard, military science-fiction series tracing the missions and betrayals that forge the woman who will one day captain humanity's escape from a dying Sol System.
Storming the Norse Wind
Book 0
Tanis Richards and the crew of the TSS Kirby Jones are eleven months into a long patrol along the edge of the InnerSol asteroid belt — tired, low on supplies, and ready for a refit. When a freighter called the Norse Wind crosses their patrol space on suspicion of running contraband, what should be a routine stop-and-search turns into a fight for supremacy in the cold dark between worlds.
Tanis Richards: Shore Leave
Book 1
Commander Tanis Richards finally makes port after seven months on the edge of Jovian space, ready for some hard-earned shore leave. Paired with an AI for a mandated psych procedure at a luxury resort on Vesta, her vacation turns dark when she comes face to face with someone she killed a week earlier — pulling her into a conspiracy that reaches into the Terran Hegemony itself, and a discovery that… more
Tanis Richards: Masquerade
Book 2
Finally granted real shore leave on Mars, Tanis gets an urgent message from Harm Ellis: get to Ceres and find a missing operative. She never makes it. Faking her own death to go undercover with her partner Darla, Tanis tracks an artificial infiltrator known as Chameleon across the Sol System — and uncovers a plot to assassinate a government official and frame her for it, forcing her into a desperate… more
Tanis Richards: Blackest Night
Book 3
Six months after the events on Europa, Tanis and the crew of the Kirby Jones are still working to uncover who was behind her betrayal and the near-assassination of the Oligarch. A routine intelligence exchange with the Jovians spirals into deeper espionage than she bargained for, forcing a detour to Saturn on the way to Earth — and dragging Tanis into a race against time to protect herself, and millions… more
Tanis Richards: Kill Shot
Book 4
Tanis Richards has had enough of being manipulated — but the only way out is through. Ordered by the Jovian Oligarch to abduct a high-ranking Scattered Disk officer on Earth, Tanis doesn't yet know that her mission's success or failure will spark the Third Solar War. Meanwhile, Harm must do the unthinkable to escape his captor and reach her in time.
Tanis Richards: Agent Pre-order
Book 5
The Hegemony doesn't send soldiers to clean up its worst mistakes — it sends agents. Newly reassigned out of the line units she's led for years, Tanis Richards is handed a black-book assignment inside the Hegemony's own intelligence directorate: find out who leaked the InnerSol defense grid to the Jovian Oligarch before it costs a war. The trail runs straight through people she trusts, and the answer may mean burning… more
The Intrepid Saga
As the Sol System collapses, General Tanis Richards leads the GSS Intrepid — humanity's largest colony ship — on a generation-spanning voyage to found a new home among the stars. The Intrepid Saga is an epic hard-military space opera about sabotage, colonization, and survival across more than a century of interstellar travel.
Outsystem
Book 1
Demoted by the military and derided by the media as 'the Butcher of Toro,' Tanis Richards is still one of the sharpest counterinsurgency officers in the Terran Hegemony. When colony leaders recruit her to stop terrorists from destroying the GSS Intrepid during its final construction phase at the Mars Outer Shipyards, it looks like her ticket out of a dying Sol System. But powerful corporate and governmental forces — and… more
A Path in the Darkness
Book 2
When the Intrepid's AI loses control of the ship's engines and core systems while battling a saboteur, it wakes Colonel Tanis Richards from stasis as a last resort. Alone aboard a failing colony ship, Tanis must uncover what happened and find a way to stop the Intrepid from being consumed by a nearby star — and even if she succeeds, the decades-long journey to New Eden means she'll have to… more
Building Victoria
Book 3
The Intrepid is drifting slowly between the stars. After near calamity at LHS 1565, the ship is headed for Kapteyn's Star to make repairs. There, the crew will need to spend decades building a temporary industrial base. Across the void, the Noctus prepare to leave Sirius for the same destination. Their plan is to colonize the system and forge new lives for themselves . . . if they aren't destroyed… more
