Kris Longknife: Audacious

Kris Longknife: Audacious
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780441015412

You can't keep a good woman down-Kris Longknife returns. Once again Kris finds herself caught in the crosshairs of unknown enemies who want her dead. Factions, both legitimate and underground, vie for control of the planet New Eden. And someone is taking advantage of the chaos to unleash a personal vendetta against Kris.

Kris Longknife: Daring

Kris Longknife: Daring
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101545232

Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife leads a reconnaissance mission of the vast uncharted regions of space. No one, least of all Kris, expects to find a hostile alien starship. Now, she must determine the extent of the alien threat-and whether to start an interstellar war...

Defiant

Defiant
Author: Millie Criswell
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2001-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0759520623

Attorney Travis Bodine faces the toughest challenge of his career defending his brother Rafe against murder charges. To make matters worse he has to work with his ex-fiancee, Hannah. The two must put the past behind them to save Rafe's life.

Kris Longknife: Intrepid

Kris Longknife: Intrepid
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2008-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780441016518

Kris Longknife has been assigned to The Wasp, the best warship beyond the Rim of Human Space. But while hunting for pirates, Kris stumbles upon something. It’s a plan to kill one of the members of the aristocratic Peterwald family—and the would-be killers are setting her up as the assassin.

Kris Longknife: Furious

Kris Longknife: Furious
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101612134

Having used unorthodox methods to save a world—and every sentient being on it—Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife is wanted across the galaxy for crimes against humanity. For her own safety, she’s been assigned to a backwater planet where her Fast Patrol Squadron 127 enforces immigration control and smuggler interdiction. But Kris is a Longknife, and nothing can stop her from getting back to the center of things—not when all hell is breaking loose. Now she’s on the run, hunted by both military and civilian authorities—and since the civilian authorities happen to be her immediate family, Kris soon finds herself homeless, broke, and on trial for her life on an alien world…

Kris Longknife - Stalwart

Kris Longknife - Stalwart
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-12-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781642110340

The foolish Iteeche clans that hauled Grand Admiral Kris Longknife back to the Iteeche Capital and interrupted her campaign against the rebels, are dead. Very dead. Their clans are disgraced and their palaces in ruin.However, while Kris was handling that noise, the rebels took back one of the planets she had recently captured, Arteccia, and are planning to take more. Now it's time once more again for Kris to kick butts and take names.However, life is never easy for a Human in the Iteeche Empire. The Clan Chiefs expect Kris to retake what the rebels took from the loyalists because that is the Iteeche Way. That is a tune she will not dance to. So, the Clan Chiefs play their ace: Do what we want, or we won't give you command of our ships. To their consternation, Kris does not give in. She gives them a literal middle digit salute and invites every minor clan to join the fun and games of capturing planets and gaining plunder.Unfortunately, the rebels have used their time well and they have their own plans for Kris, plans that should leave her fleet in ruins and the young Iteeche on the throne dead. Unfortunately for them, their plans can't really hold back Grand Admiral, the Stalwart Kris Longknife.

Vicky Peterwald: Target

Vicky Peterwald: Target
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101617314

BEAUTY AND THE BATTLEFIELD Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Maria Teresa Inez Smythe-Peterwald, daughter of wealth and power, was raised to do little except be attractive and marry well. Then everything changed—her brother, her father’s favorite and the heir apparent, was killed in battle by Lieutenant Kris Longknife, daughter of the Peterwald’s longtime enemies. Vicky vowed revenge, but her skill set was more suitable for seduction than assassination, and she failed. Angry and disappointed, her father decided she needed military training and forced her to join the Navy. Now Ensign Vicky Peterwald is part of a whole new world, where use of her ample charms will not lead to advancement. But her father is the Emperor, and what he wants he gets. What he wants is for Vicky to learn to be efficiently ruthless and deadly. Though the lessons are hard learned, Vicky masters them—with help from an unexpected source: Kris Longknife.

Kris Longknife Commanding

Kris Longknife Commanding
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Kl & MM Books
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2018
Genre: Admirals
ISBN: 9781642110234

Grand Admiral, Her Royal Highness Kris Longknife is up to her ears in problems . . . again. While summoned to the Imperial Iteeche Court to be humanity's Emissary, it turns out that what the Iteeche really want is a fighting admiral! You see, they've got this huge civil war going, and the Imperial side isn't doing so well. Kris now has command of the entire Imperial Combined Fleet. Sort of. The Iteeche Empire has a ten-thousand-year long history. There is nothing that won't say, "We've always done it that way," pointing to a track record lasting for thousands of years. Even when Kris reminds them they're losing, many have a hard time changing. Many Iteeche also wonder if letting a human win this war for them isn't losing everything already. Kris managed to win a defensive battle with a scratch force. Now she's thrown together a larger force and is ready to take the fight to the rebels. It's full speed ahead with Kris Longknife: Commanding.

Kris Longknife: Mutineer

Kris Longknife: Mutineer
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2004-01-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1440622345

Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the Prime Minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician’s wife. She’s been raised only to be beautiful and to marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris’s blood—and, against her parents’ objections, she enlists in the marines. She has a lot to live up to and a lot to prove in the long-running struggle between her powerful family, a highly defensive—and offensive—Earth, and the hundreds of warring colonies. And then an ill-conceived attack brings the war close to home, putting Kris’s life on the line. Now she has only one choice: certain death on the front lines of rim space—or mutiny...

Kris Longknife: Defender

Kris Longknife: Defender
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101626623

Kris Longknife is back in the good graces of the brass—and to demonstrate that, they've promoted her to Admiral. Now her mission is to find the home base of the space pirates who are plaguing the fringes of the galaxy. But no mission is ever simple when your name is Longknife. And this time the complications range from the military to the personal, as Kris finds herself—reluctantly—having to make some command decisions about her future...