Amargosa Trilogy

The Storm breaks on Amargosa.Davra Andraste returns to the resistance with her former captor as her prisoner. Now she will have to confront an even more implacable enemy, the human warlord Colonel Kray.Laral Farad assumes rule over occupied Amargosa after the deaths of his uncle and cousin. He intends to exterminate the humans once and for all. But a new resistance rises, made up of humans, his own people, an intelligence no one knew existed before, and their leader, a teenage girl on a mission of vengeance.JT Austin has gone from runaway to combat pilot. On Hanar, he trains with a sword-wielding special forces lieutenant and friendly Gelt to keep a promise to his late wife. He's going to take back Amargosa. Or die trying.Marcus Leitman sees five centuries of work nearing its end. But he must walk a tightrope in the halls of power, letting someone else take the mantle of leadership while he manipulates events behind the scenes. Only his nemesis of four hundred years returns to tell him he's about to fail.Amargosa has groaned under Gelt occupation for a year. In one swift strike, humans will take back the planet. And both human and Gelt will be irrevocably changed.

Seven stories reveal the "gap year" for the Children of Amargosa between the Amargosa Trilogy and the Suicide Arc.Tishla must deal with shelled aliens looking for a home. JT Austin has a ghost. Davra Andraste saves mean girls on her way to the Navy. Eric Yuwono has to make nice with conquerors turned refugees. Connor Duffy can't stop misuing equipment. Ellie Nardino ponders terraforming. Mitsuko Yamato delays accepting a marriage proposal to pacify sentient squids.

The Children of Amargosa - Childhood ends the night the sky explodes. For Davra Andraste, her quiet life aboard Amargosa's orbital station is shattered when aliens known as the Gelt destroy it. She falls to the surface and links up with a cadet bamed Eric Yuwono, along with two teens, Ellie and Duffy, who excel in explosive pranks and mostly harmless hacking. For JT Austin, his idyllic farm life is destroyed when his host family is slaughtered. He and their daughter Lizzy flee for the woods. When JT and Davra's group link up, they form the core of a new resistance to the aliens.Gimme Shelter - JT Austin flees his wealthy family to make his own fortune on Tian, the financial and cultural capital of the Compact. A prank lands him on Amargosa, an agricultural colony. To teach him a lesson, his parents strand him there, hoping he will learn something of work. JT soon finds himself under gaze of the farmer's daughter. And a shady constable from a nearby township. Something is going on, though. The constable is training a fighting force. Plus, rumors abound of a coming alien invasion.