K. S Augustin
1) On Bliss
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Junior Commander Hoara Felin of the Republic's Space Fleet has crash-landed on a planet. Her ship is inoperable, her shipmates are dead. The only thing that can make a bad situation worse is finding she has crashed on the notorious prison-planet of Bliss–a place where condemned criminals are sent...but never leave.She finds an unexpected ally in Toh, a caring man who treats her injuries and hides her from those who would hold an officer of the Space...
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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 xenophobic and the caste system that governs her world rigid and stifling. She is looking for a way out.The notorious Department of Other Matters deals with things...
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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 ship and two other crewmembers, and that's not good enough to go up against a well-protected gang of cutthroats.Knowing he needs allies, Quinten attempts to track down the old members of the ST Alliance, but they're all dead. The only...
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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 business in Australia and, as a contingency, has requested a bodyguard. He expects someone dangerous, discreet…male. Instead, what he gets is decidedly...
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Whatever happened to Vigo Halan?Quintens ChoiceAfter 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 he gets a message from the Telaris system that raises more questions than it answers. Is it Vigo? If so, what is she doing at the edge of Republic space? If it isn't, who...
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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 an attempt to stave off boredom turns into a new way of life as the scales drop from Ursula's eyes and she tentatively enters a realm that contains vengeful ghosts, toyol, demons, pontianak and curses, not to...
8) Tainted Love
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Bryce Craven is different but, until he meets Cleo, he doesn't realise how different he really is. As a serial killer stalks the streets, the city is in terror. People stay home, afraid to venture out in the dark hours lest they too are discovered, murdered and drained of blood. But one person who is not afraid is Bryce Craven. He seeks a woman. A special woman. And he won't rest until he finds her and she delivers to him his heart's desire. Only...
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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 back. But Ebony has moved on since that time. She is now Xin Dell, a respected government security trainer. And what her people are asking of her is...
10) Quinten's Story
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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.Until he decides to take on a new crewmember. Quinten believes he has his own problems. He believes he is alone and forgotten. He is wrong. Quite wrong.
11) Restoration
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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 has been raised by aliens for the past thirty years-and Van has been chosen to restore him to Rahfon society.Even though the eyes of two worlds are on her, Van thinks the job will be straightforward enough. But when her charge, Eton Abless, is injured, an irate governor...
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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 are the alternatives?
EXTENDED BLURB:
In Enemy Hands
The Republic had taken everything from Moon-her research, her privacy, her illusions. They thought...
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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, tryiing to make a difference by thumbing her nose at everything her family stands for. Unfortunately, things haven't quite turned out the way she anticipated and, while running...
14) Europa Europa
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Can a manufactured being mutiny against her creators? Dare she?Salvia is a being like no other, crafted from the genes of several Earth species. She is on Jupiter's moon, Europa, to work for "the company", finding new materials that will be used for commercial applications. She is young, intelligent…and lonely; so much so that she demands that her employer send her a companion, or she'll never work for them again.Rhus is the brash male that the...
15) The Fell Of Dark
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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 Lith Yinalà±a, Cheloi Sie is nothing but a war criminal and she considers it her personal mission to kill her.
Unfortunately for Laisen/Cheloi, the...