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The Maia's Promise: The Digital Survival Journal of Franklin C. Royster

The Maia's Promise: The Digital Survival Journal of Franklin C. Royster

“This was not an accident – this ship was slated for a one-way mission …”

In the twenty-fifth century, the Terran freighter Tyler Y. Alphonse crash-lands on a terrestrial world. Or did it?

Six humans are awakened from Cryo-sleep and find themselves marooned in the depths of interstellar space. With their shipmates murdered and three unaccounted for, three of the survivors – Lt. Daphne Chigusa Lee, Chief Petty Officer Olivia Cruz, and a civilian, Franklin Cecil Royster – find themselves at odds on forging intimate relationships. Royster keeps a journal of their survival.

Interpersonal conflicts intensify as Chief Petty Officer Calvin Grimm and Petty Officer Reginald Burke suspect Royster has taken indecent liberties with the women.

Under increasing physical and emotional harassment, Royster flees the crash site, followed later by Lee. During their excursions they discover one of the ship’s ejected escape crafts, in which only Olivia Cruz survived, but she has sustained horrific injuries. With Cruz stabilized, Lee returns to the freighter to continue her treatments.

The two groups reluctantly join forces, but explosive, long-hidden secrets are laid bare. If they are to survive, everyone must overcome their differences.

Their story is all recorded in The Digital Survival Journal of Franklin C. Royster.

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The Search for the Tyler Y. Alphonse From the Investigative Files of Benoit Carter: The Ypsilanti-Dakkarosi War, Volume 3 of 3

The Search for the Tyler Y. Alphonse From the Investigative Files of Benoit Carter: The Ypsilanti-Dakkarosi War, Volume 3 of 3

In the late twenty-fifth century, a long-dormant mystery resurfaces involving the disappearance in deep space of a Pulvermacher-class supply freighter. Handed what appears to be another mundane “research and report” commission, Junior Agent Benoit Carter is about to have his well-ordered life profoundly change.

Carter’s initial search shows that his investigative section has been infiltrated by clandestine alien moles. Then a retired Confederation senior agent is murdered, an entire Del Mar subdivision is destroyed, and Carter is gravely injured in an assassination attempt.

After recuperating, Carter and his supervisor, Debra T. Stanton, follow a string of seemingly unconnected clues, eventually stumbling on some long-buried information. They learn how Terra (the Earth) was involved in a far-distant interstellar conflict, its cause, and the fact that their home world has been quietly invaded by enemy aliens, whose offspring have infiltrated vital levels of the Confederation’s governance.

Another disclosure during their hunt for clues is the identity of a close associate who has been putting up a well-crafted façade. Carter remains doggedly on the case, following a trail of digital bread crumbs to uncover the cause of the mysterious disappearance of the Confederation fast supply vessel, the Tyler Y. Alphonse.

This is the third book in an exciting trilogy.

Gregory A. Pierson grew up on the banks of the Mississippi River in Alton, Illinois, site of the Lincoln-Douglas presidential debates, a famous Civil War prison, and home of some of the most haunted houses in the country.

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Danovia Prime Obliterated! The Diary of Sedona Ames: The Ypsilanti-Dakkarosi War, Volume 2 of 3 - The Ypsilanti-Dakkarosi War 2

Danovia Prime Obliterated! The Diary of Sedona Ames: The Ypsilanti-Dakkarosi War, Volume 2 of 3

This second book of a trilogy is set in the twenty-third century. It’s a tale of rising tensions and loyalties played out on a galactic stage on the Confederation colony of Danovia Prime in the Orion Section. Danovia’s colonists were shocked to witness the destruction of their moon Trinity by the Ypsilanti Empire, a relentless force trying to eradicate the Dakkarosi. Marsha Ames gave birth to Sedona while on duty during that attack. That massive, square silver object the Dakkarosi stole has been brought to Trinity by two Terran opportunists, transported to Terra, and then returned to the Ypsilanti Magi after a drawn-out negotiation process. However, the Ypsilans are still bent on eliminating the Dakkarosi. To that end, the Ypsilanti forces secretly established bases on Danovia as Sedona matures into a teenager. Her mother, Marsha, and her father, the late General Rick Cox, never married. They showered her with love until he died of heart failure when Sedona was a small child. Sedona was the only teenager left on the planet after the Confederation allowed relocation for those wishing it. But Sedona would not leave without her mother, and Marsha could not go because she is a contracted Confederation employee. What will happen to those remaining on the planet? Find out in Danovia Prime Obliterated!

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In The Crosshairs : The Interstellar War Ignites : The Ypsilanti-Dakkarosi War, Volume 1 of 3

In The Cross Hairs : The Interstellar War Ignites : The Ypsilanti-Dakkarosi War, Volume 1 of 3

The time is the twenty-third century. Richard Cox is the commander of the Johnson Point Space Surveillance Installation on Danovia Prime. For five years there has been relative calm in this region of interstellar space.

An uptick in monitored subspace and regular frequency radio traffic discloses disturbing calls for help, as entire worlds in an area known as Gulf are being obliterated!

As Cox, Executive Officer Genni Carr, and Prime Minister Jon Dewey confer, the cause of this destruction has been transported for hiding at the North Pole of their terrestrial moon Trinity by two male Terran ne’er-do-wells and two female Dakkarosi denizens.

An ancient modified Expansion War-era Terran transport is spotted from orbit by a vessel on routine patrol, as it’s in the process of unloading a huge block of ancient silver metal. The perpetrators are apprehended and interrogated on Danovia. It’s disclosed that these Dakkarosi denizens ignited the spreading conflict by stealing this object from the unknown and powerful Ypsilanti Empire!

As the gravity of this situation is debated, they listen in stunned disbelief: The Terran males have secretly ferried scores of Dakkarosi to Trinity! That act alone has now placed Danovia in the cross hairs of the most lethal killing machine in the cosmos! The personnel of Johnson Point can only hold their breaths as this situation spawned in the depths of interstellar space spirals out of control in Volume 1 of “In The Crosshairs: The Interstellar War Ignites!”

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String of Pearls: The Survival Journal of the CSF Alphonse

String of Pearls: The Survival Journal of the CSF Alphonse

Set in the 25th Century, during an Interstellar supply run, the crew members onboard the Confederation Space Freighter “Alphonse” are systematically killed off. The ship seems to have crashed on a Terrestrial Alien planet-or did it? These and other strange and unexplained events occupy Space Marine Officer Daphne C. Lee and Confederation Social Servant Franklin C. Royster as they set out to solve the mystery revealed in the digital flight logs of the “Alphonse.” Will the duo find the answers that will shed light on its mission? String of Pearls: The Survival Journal of the CSF Alphonse will engage the reader in this riveting quest. About the Author: Gregory A. Pierson is a retired social worker. He grew up in Alton, Southern Illinois on the banks of the Mississippi River and currently lives in Castillejos, Zambales in the Philippines. Mr. Pierson was motivated to write String of Pearls: The Survival Journal of the CSF Alphonse by his love of Science Fiction. He has completed two new books, Dr. Nora and In The Line of Fire, which are part of the series.

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