Challis Tower: 15 books

Alshandiel Dolrahn wants a new life away from the suffocating world of Qolar. But will the Diplomatic Corps be her salvation…or undoing? The ideal assassin is young, smart and on the run. Alshandiel feels suffocated by her home planet of Qolar. She finds her fellow Qolari narrow-minded and...

SHORT BLURB: Both heart-pounding novels in a single edition. Winner of two SFR Galaxy Awards. Two talented scientists, one a savant, attempt to flee the repressive Republic with a solar ignition technology that both their government and its rebel faction want. When there are no good guys, what...

A Republic 'future historical'Gilthen Ahn is captain of the Darck Banks cartel, a pirate band working deep in Republic space. He has six ships under his command and, unless he finds money to pay off his substantial debts, he'll lose everything.Tera d'Olzon is a privileged member of Republic high society,...

Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. After the tragic death of her parents, and with nothing left tying her to the United Kingdom, Ursula Formosa returns to her homeland of Malaysia and a job with the eccentrically-named Singapore firm, 'The Check Your Luck Agency'. What begins as...

Quinten Tamlan was once the scourge of the Republic. Then he disappeared... It's been seven long years for Quinten Tamlan. Scarred and bitter, he has lost direction and the spark of idealism that once fired his resolve. But when he is forced to take on a new crewmember, he is once more pulled back...

Series: Quinten Tamlan #3 Whatever happened to Vigo Halan? After helping them successfully free a group of Transitionals held at the secret Rannler facility, the best bounty hunter in the galaxy suddenly disappeared. A year and a half later, Quinten still doesn't know what happened to her. Then...

Yves Nerin has a problem.A bad business decision has serious repercussions and the only way Yves can get some breathing space is to run away to the end of the world-Australia. He doesn't like it, but if it means keeping his sister and her family safe, he has no choice. It isn't such a penance. He has...

Hoara Felin has fallen in love with a man who is forbidden to leave the planet. Plus, he's not quite a man… Junior Commander Hoara Felin of the Republic's Space Fleet has problems. Her ship is inoperable and her shipmates are dead. The only thing that can make a bad situation worse is finding she has...

Series: Quinten Tamlan #2 Quinten goes after the man who killed his wife… After seven years of enforced isolation, Quinten Tamlan is back on his game and he wants the head of Faks Somen, now leader of the Mitres Raygun pirate cartel, on a platter. There's only one problem: he only has one...

2015 SFR Galaxy Award winner (under the title RESTORATION) In politics, is there a place for love? Van Motaff, renowned philosopher and Rahfonist, is looking ahead to Retirement, but the planetary government has other plans. Something unprecedented has happened—a young, male Rahfoni from...

A long time ago, a determined young woman escaped the despair of her homeworld, turning herself into one of the galaxy's best martial artists, Ebony Strike.Decades later, the people of her homeworld have tracked her down. They need money and, in order to get that money, they need the old Ebony Strike...

Sophie is English, divorced, living in Singapore…and bored, Bored, BORED! But is she ready for handsome, exotic, young Adrian Pereira?Several years ago, Sophie Ogden moved to Singapore with her banker husband, Tim. However, when they got divorced, Tim moved back to the UK, leaving Sophie to carve herself...

2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Award Recommended Short List (Short Fiction) under the title PRIME SUSPECT)A lonely being in a lonely galaxy…Heron Meed has two strikes against it. It is a hemaphrodite in a galaxy dominated by two-gendered beings. And it's a convicted criminal.After six years of incarceration,...

What can you do when you start falling in love with the woman you're meant to kill? Laisen Carros is a covert agent of the Fusion, sent undercover to infiltrate the Perlim Empire. However, the years she's spent as Cheloi Sie fighting Menon rebels on an alien battleground are starting to exhaust her. To...