The galaxy is at war, but wars are won and lost in the shadows. To the galaxy at large, Jack March is a privateer of the interstellar Kingdom of Calaskar and a former Iron Hand commando of the malevolent Final Consciousness. In truth, he is an alpha operative of the Silent Order, the most efficient and feared intelligence organization in human space. When there is a crisis, Jack March is the man to call. But there are many forces that wish to enslave or destroy humanity. And when a mission leads March to a lawless asteroid space station, he might be the only one left to stop those forces...

The galaxy is at war, and the shadows of human history might destroy the present. When Jack March agrees to help Dr. Adelaide Taren track down a tip about an archaeological find, he doesn't expect to be drawn into a deadly Machinist plot. Because the secrets of the find are rooted in the past, but they might change the course of the future...

Combined for the first time in one volume, here are the bestselling novels SILENT ORDER: IRON HAND, SILENT ORDER: WRAITH HAND, SILENT ORDER: AXIOM HAND, and the short story RAIL GUN. The galaxy is at war, but wars are won and lost in the shadows. To the galaxy at large, Jack March is a privateer of the interstellar Kingdom of Calaskar and a former Iron Hand commando of the malevolent Final Consciousness. In truth, he is an alpha operative of the Silent Order, the most efficient and feared intelligence organization in human space. When there is a crisis, Jack March is the man to call. But there are many forces that wish to enslave or destroy humanity, and March is the one to stop those forces...

Want to write a novel? This is the book for you! The key to writing a good novel is to tell a good story, and this book will show you how to tell a good story in novel form. We'll look at all the important parts of a satisfying story structure: -The introduction. How to set the stage for your book. -The conflict and the inciting incident. All stories revolve around conflict, and the more emotionally significant the conflict, the better. -Rising action. Your characters need to take action to resolve their conflict, and they will experience setbacks and failures. -The climax. The more significant the conflict, the more powerful its climax and resolution. -The resolution. We see how the conflict and its resolution have changed the characters. Finally, this book contains a complete annotated copy of the author's novel SILENT ORDER: IRON HAND to provide an example of a novel that follows the rules of story structure. From the introduction to the resolution, STORYTELLING: HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL will show you how to write a compelling novel of your own!

Antenora is the apprentice of the Keeper of Andomhaim, and she might be the only hope of the Keeper ever finding her way home. But Antenora has made many enemies, and they are coming to take vengeance upon her...

Caina has hated the Imperial Magisterium, the Empire’s college of magi, for all her life…and the magi hate and fear her right back. But the Magisterium has much bigger problems right now, and the First Magus is willing to make a deal. If Caina can find the root cause of a mysterious string of suicides, the Magisterium will leave her in peace. Except the suicides are actually murders. And unless Caina is clever, she’ll be the murderer’s next victim…

I'm an illegal wizard, an expert thief, and an occasional killer. So robbing the mansion of the Elven noble Lord Castomyr should prove no challenge at all. Except another thief has an eye on Lord Castomyr's treasures, a thief with magical abilities I don't understand. And unless I outwit this master thief, I'll be the one left holding the bag...and among the Elves, the punishment for theft is death.