The Declan Shaw Detective Series
Declan Shaw is a private investigator in Houston, Texas. He doesn’t “do murder.”
If you think that will keep him out of trouble, think again …
The Other Books - The Savage Crown Series
A four- volume Science Fiction Saga
Elymore - To set the scene
The rulers of the early Empire wore the Savage Crown. Those were heroic times. Today’s Federation, packed with bureaucrats, career politicians and lobbyists, is everything but heroic. What it inherited from the Empire are its sins – greed, corruption and a rigid class system that favors humans, keeps aliens in subordinate roles, and denies mutants basic rights. Founded on principles of democracy and tolerance, the Federation is morally bankrupt.
Nowhere is this more obvious than in Elymore, the capital and center of power. This is where the tale begins. A tale of ambition, dominance and survival. A battle for a crown that fully deserves its name.
Solitaire Plaza - The outsiders caught in the struggle
The story starts very far away from the capital and its political intrigues. Fifteen years earlier, Aidan Gable turned his back on a brilliant military career. He chose to go to the Border, the furthest reaches of the Federation, where nobody cares about a man’s past. The darkness he left behind will catch up with him. A distress signal, a barren asteroid, a handful of dust, and a spacewalk that he would have been well-inspired not to take will throw him and his friend Sachs, the android, in the middle of a civil war. They’re caught between Hallam’s cold-blooded dictatorship and Kassem’s desperate efforts to save an ailing democracy that no one still believes in. The spiral of violence is winding up fast; when it releases, the innocents will fall with the guilty.
Aidan Gable may be the wild card… or could it be his friend Sachs, the unpredictable android?
Sands of Kelian - Transition and reprieve
The Historical Studies campus on a bright summer afternoon. Students enjoy the recess, an arrogant professor performs for an audience of admirers, and Crytha Demoraz, archeologist, wonders where she’ll find the money to resume her digging campaign in the Kelian desert.
On that perfect day, a strange accident kills fifty people and causes brain damage in many more.
Liam Hutton, the Security officer in charge of the investigation, will face an enemy unlike any he has encountered before, and Crytha Demoraz will find out that the violence that buried a forgotten civilization still poisons the present. The challenge will bring them together in a story that is part thriller, part adventure, and where nothing is at all what it seems.
Winter Planet - The final chapter
Eight years have passed since the end of the civil war and the defeat of Hallam’s dictatorial regime. A storm is gathering that could destroy the fragile peace Kassem engineered. The forces that made Hallam’s rise to power possible have not been disarmed; they’re still at work, more dangerous than ever. Peace is an illusion as thin and treacherous as summer ice on Vigen, the Winter Planet.
Soren Rowan has not given up his supreme ambition to rule alone and restore the throne of his ancestors. He’s been biding his time, moving his pawns, and sowing discontent behind the scenes. After years of covert intrigue, his weapons are ready – brute force, deadly science and blind fanaticism. He will use them ruthlessly, to the point of total annihilation, and his adversaries are not ready. It will cost them dearly.