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...

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…

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: 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: Undaunted

Kris Longknife: Undaunted
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101148918

Kris Longknife encounters some peaceful aliens who have come to warn humanity of an unidentifiable force that is roaming the galaxy, obliterating everything in its path-a path now leading directly toward the human worlds.

They Also Serve

They Also Serve
Author: Mike Moscoe
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101617632

A WAR WITHIN Colonel Ray Longknife and Marine Captain Mary Rodrigo were once enemies in an interstellar war. Now they’re working together to keep the peace. But can they protect themselves from an enemy they can’t even see? When a bad space jump flings their starship thousands of light-years away from home, Longknife and Rodrigo make an amazing discovery: a planet inhabited by the descendants of a ship’s crew—lost three hundred years earlier. As acting ambassador, Longknife is eager to welcome the planet’s population back into the fold of humanity. But Rodrigo is suspicious. She senses that something is wrong under the planet’s veneer of peace and prosperity. And she’s right....

Stark's Crusade

Stark's Crusade
Author: John G. Hemry
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2002-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110165077X

HE SWORE TO PROTECT AND SERVE. NOW HE HAS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM. When the American Lunar colony was threatened, he served his country in battle. But when high ranking officers betrayed him and his soldiers, he had only one choice—rebellion. Now Sergeant Ethan Stark is in charge of a rebel organization he never intended to create, and the United States has just joined forces with its former enemy to insure his destruction. Stark has no intention of compromising his honor, even in the face of impossible odds. He and his soldiers have no desire to fight American forces, but they are willing to pay any price to defend the rights of the colonists they were sent to protect. Now Stark and his soldiers must fend off deadly aggression from their own country without igniting a full scale civil war.

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: Welcome Home / Go Away

Kris Longknife: Welcome Home / Go Away
Author: Mike Shepherd
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101589671

An original novella in the “fast-paced, exciting military SF series”* featuring Kris Longknife. Kris Longknife is back home from her galactic adventures, but her entire Fleet of Discovery has been annihilated. Now, humanity finds itself at war with an alien race more monstrous than anyone could have possibly imagined. General Terrance “Trouble” Tordon, Kris’s great-grandfather, is given the task of calming the panicked politicians, some of whom blame Kris for the disaster and would like to eliminate the ever bothersome Commander Longknife. But as “Trouble” struggles to defend his Kris, the level of uncertainty among the civilians leads to more panic and a rush to judgment that makes him believe that he’s facing a fight he’s bound to lose… Includes a preview of the newest Kris Longknife novel, Furious, available November 2012. *SF Site