Cauldron of Stars

Hardened space pirates try to kidnap a young girl…but a hero materializes from the stars and ruins their plan. His only mistake is letting them live. Legendary space trucker and freighter captain Mike Starrunner travels from planet to planet with his interstellar crew. But now they're in big trouble - they know too much about a criminal group called the Travelers. These murderous miscreants leave a trail of death wherever they go, and they want Mike's head. When his efforts to shake them fail, Mike and the crew's survival is at stake. They're outnumbered, outgunned, and outmaneuvered, and an ugly end seems certain. Desperate, they try a final impossible tactic as the Travelers close in for their revenge. Will the reckless gambit save them, or will Mike and his crew pay the ultimate price? Lovers of Iain M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds, and James S.A. Corey will flip for this genre-melding adventure. Find out why fans say this epic space opera has "insane adventures of improbable heroes!"

One more dirty job for the St. Clare's crew. This time it's all or nothing. In search of Pippa, an exiled teenage heiress, independent space freighter captain Mike Starrunner accepts a cargo for the Hurtworlds, the most hellish planets in the Cluster. The cargo is dirty, and could land the crew in jail...but that's never stopped Mike before. This time, the prize is not just money, but the truth about the Traveller plot that's turned Mike's life upside-down. But the job is a deadly trap for the Shifters. On a ravaged prison planet, Mike and the crew tangle again with the predatory Sophia and her Traveller allies. Pippa is the bait in a trap to destroy Mike...and potentially wipe the Shifters off the face of the galaxy. Sophia and the Travellers stand on the brink of grasping unimaginable power, and now Mike is the only man standing in their way. This ancient secret could shatter the uneasy peace of the Cluster. To defeat the criminal conspiracy, Mike must evade the long arm of the law, while untangling an intrigue that stretches across light years and centuries. If he fails, Sophia's murderous plot will succeed, and Mike's name will go down in history as a detested traitor. Join the crew of the St. Clare as they struggle to put the clues together, battle murderous criminals, and above all, hang onto their humanity. If you're a fan of Firefly or _The Expanse, you'll love this interstellar adventure set in a cluster of stars far, far away, in a future where we've colonized the stars and even altered our own DNA, but remain all too human. Warning: Contains swearing, sex, spaceships, unapologetic badassery, shapeshifting wolves, tigers, bears, lions, and one very large snake.

Someone froze my weapons officer in cryonite. They won't get away with that. Let me just find somewhere to put down these talking Barbies …Independent freighter captain Mike Starrunner has seen it all, but when someone freezes his weapons officer into a six-foot cube of cryonite, even Mike is stumped. Who would have done this and why? And what happened to good old carbonite? On skanky, sweltering hub world Ponce de Leon, there's no shortage of suspects. Fortunately, Mike is a Shifter-genetically gifted with the ability to shift into animal form. Unfortunately, so are the other guys. When Mike's investigation leads him to his nemesis, notorious smuggler Buzzz Parsec, and his gang of criminal bear Shifters, things get hardcore. If Mike can't solve the mystery, he'll not only lose his weapons officer, but his home.Hold these damn Barbies. It's time for BEAST MODE! The Cryonite Caper is a prequel to A Cauldron of Stars, the new space opera thriller series from New York Times bestselling sci-fi author Felix R. Savage. It contains swearing, sex, spaceships, unapologetic badassery, shapeshifting wolves, tigers, bears, lions, and one very large snake. You have been warned!