Henry Vogel Libri

"My parents are not dead!" Everyone thinks I'm in denial, and have been ever since my parents vanished seven years ago. Everyone thinks I should just shut up, and accept the vast inheritance coming my way. Everyone thinks I should let it go, and get on with my life. Everyone is wrong. I know my parents are still alive-but if I reveal "how" I know, I'll be drafted into Psi Corps. But my inheritance can fund my search for them. I didn't count on deadly opposition from the board of the very company I'm about to inherit. There are powerful people involved who will go to extreme lengths to protect their dark secrets and silence me forever. But those people don't know about "my" three wildcards-my rebuilt spaceship, my best friend who doubles as my bodyguard, and the psychic powers I've kept secret my entire life. My parents "are" alive, and I'm going to find and rescue them-"whatever it takes."

After crash-landing on the lost colony world of Aashla, Terran Scout David Rice rescued Princess Callan, kidnapped heir to the throne of Mordan. In fighting his way across half the planet to see her home safely, he won her love, and then her hand in marriage. Now David and Callan want nothing more than to settled down and live happily ever after...But a man can't do what David has done without making powerful enemies, and his enemies want revenge!Told in the form of a lead-in novella and a novel, SCOUT'S OATH opens with the story of a young thief who risks his life to bring David and Callan a warning that starts them on a desperate race against time to find and rescue her parents. Then, to stop the outbreak of planet-wide war, David must surrender to King Rat, ruler of the tunnels beneath the city-state of Beloren, and it falls to Callan to pull together a band of unlikely heroes and organize his rescue. Can an old pirate, a young thief, a crusty doctor, and a daring airship pilot help Callan do the impossible?SCOUT'S OATH is an exciting modern homage to the classic tales of planetary romance made famous by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett. If you like your heroes unabashedly heroic, your heroines feisty and true, and your plots filled with dangers and twists at every turn, you'll enjoy SCOUT'S OATH.

Years ago, Terran Scout David Rice crash-landed on the lost colony world of Aashla, where he rescued and fell in love with the beautiful Princess Callan. Pledging his life and sword to Callan and his adopted home world, David thought he'd never see another Terran again-until the night the sky was lit by weapons fire, as another starship tried and failed to blast its way through Aashla's deadly planetary ring. Now, rushing to the crash site, David and Callan find they're too late, as their bitter rival, Prince Rupor, has gotten there first... For on a world of swords and airships, even a wrecked starship can overthrow the balance of power! SCOUT'S DUTY is an exciting modern homage to the classic tales of planetary romance made famous by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett. If you like your heroes unabashedly heroic, your heroines feisty and true, and your plots filled with dangers and twists at every turn, you'll enjoy SCOUT'S DUTY.

In a family full of heroes, Nora Connaught is the normal one. She's never fought space pirates. Never saved anyone's life. Never done anything remotely heroic. Now she's 18, and going off to college on another planet. Nora hopes she'll finally get to live a normal life. But life never goes as expected. After pirates hijack the starliner she is traveling on, putting thousands of lives at risk, Nora must live up to the Connaught name. Can she cast her own heroic shadow?

After two thousand years of isolation, the lost colony world of Aashla has reestablished contact with the rest of galactic civilization. Princess Callan of Mordan, and her royal consort, Terran Scout David Rice, were the people who made that happen. Now, they lead the mission to ensure that Aashla's unique culture is not overwhelmed by the galaxy-spanning Terran Federation. But on a routine inspection tour of Federation scientific outposts, Callan and David are horrified to find an abandoned camp and a mass grave. When an unnatural storm knocks their airship out of the sky, they're forced to confront their worst nightmare. Someone has smuggled forbidden galactic technology onto Aashla--and whoever they are, their trail of murder and destruction has only just begun...

Unwillingly drawn out of her annual drunken stupor, Captain Nancy Martin, Retired, finds herself involuntarily reactivated. Her assignment-help Special Agent Erica Hampton solve the disappearance of an entire school's student body. Hampton's superiors suspect a slaver ring has kidnapped the children, to sell them on a rim world beyond the Terran Federation's borders. When Nancy and Erica discover the truth behind the abductions, they realize their deadline is quite literal, and much closer than they thought. When the gloves come off, the missing children couldn't have anyone better fighting for their lives. It will take every bit of skill Nancy and Erica have to track down the villains behinds the disappearances. Defeating them will be a different matter entirely.

Captain Nancy Martin expects a lonely death. Passing out as her battle-damaged starfighter bleeds the last of its air, she comes to in the cavernous and deserted docking bay of an unknown starship. Leaving her crippled fighter to seek help, she finds she's been scooped up by a gigantic generation ship inhabited by the descendants of the original crew and passengers-people whose entire universe is the ship! Mistaken for the vast ship's long-lost and near-mythical Captain, Nancy is welcomed as a savior. She believes she's found the allies she needs in her desperate fight for survival. But an even greater menace lurks in the shadows of the ship-one that controls every inch of the ship and every life aboard it. One that will stop at nothing to destroy- "The Counterfeit Captain." Set in the same universe as Vogel's best-selling novel, "The Fugitive Heir," "The Counterfeit Captain" further expands the stage for Vogel's exciting brand of star-spanning science fiction adventure.

The Progenitors-ancient, powerful rulers of an empire spanning a thousand suns-vanished before mankind discovered the Americas, leaving the Elders to rule as Regents of the empire. Three thousand years later, the Regency set their sights on the Terran Republic.When the vast Regency fleet attacks, the fate of humanity falls on a pair of young shoulders. Elise, a scholar's daughter who has never been on her own. Glen, the slave of an alien master, who doesn't know how to be human.Against the vast empire, Glen and Elise have nothing to oppose the aliens but their wits, a spaceship, and a handful of allies-an ethereally beautiful alien artist, her equally handsome brother, and a quadruped mob boss protecting her teenage daughter.Together, they must steal a sacred text out from under the Regency's very noses, rescue Elise's father, and hope he can solve the mystery of the Progenitors' whereabouts. If he can, they must pray humanity's salvation can be found on...The Lost Planet.

Matt Connaught wants nothing more than to enjoy life with his new wife, Michelle, and to catch up on lost time with his parents, who were held captive for seven years. As a member of one of the wealthiest families in the Terran Federation, this should be easy. It's not. Because Matt is psychic. If anyone outside of his family discovers his secret, he'll be taken from his family and forced to serve in Psi Corps. When Federation agents come looking for him, Matt and Michelle have only one choice-to go on the run. But how can they hope to escape from Psi Corps, when the Corps has the full might of the Terran Federation behind it?

Psi Corps wants Matt, the most powerful psychic in generations. He's slipped through their fingers twice and escaped beyond the borders of the Terran Federation. But mere laws won't stop Psi Corps from coming after Matt. Psi Corps wants Michelle, Matt's wife and the key to controlling him. Trained as a bodyguard since birth, Michelle is the only reason Matt is still free. But no bodyguard can stop the full might of the most powerful government in known space. When a surprise attack almost catches them, Matt and Michelle realize they have nowhere to hide. They must take the fight to Psi Corps. To live free they must find Psi Corps' weakness and exploit it. They must be David to Psi Corps' Goliath. They must slay the giant or serve it. Slayer or slavery-there are no other options.