Shadow of the Dominion

Valentinian just wants to make a living hauling cargo between planets and stations. His new charter promises to be profitable, hauling an all-girl-band all over the Dominion. But trouble starts before they take off, and Valentinian has just hired a crewman with a shadowy past, big muscles, and the sort of military training that only the Dominator's Elite Assault Cavalry wields. What else could possibly go wrong? Longshot-the first novel in the new series, Shadow of the Dominion, is a fresh take on space merchants, space marines, and oh, yeah, hired muscle. Be sure to be on the look-out for the other books in this series!

Valentinian and Dave have escaped the Dominion's Internal Security Bureau. Now they're fleeing for their lives, heading for systems outside of Dominion control, looking for a place where they can rebuild their lives. Figure out what comes next. Who they want to be, or to become. Hard Bargain-the second novel in the series, Shadow of the Dominion-takes you even further into Wildspace, human variants, and maybe even a crooked card game or two.

Kryuome - the desert world on Valentinian's treasure map. A place where he hopes to find friends and surprises, if his crew can survive the dangerous aliens of Wildspace. While the Widow tracks him and his crewmate.

Valentinian won a treasure map in a crooked card game. Its call brings him back to the planet Kryuome. There, he and the crew must outsmart the locals, the mutants, as well as the Widow aboard her new warship, in order to uncover a secret two thousand years in the making. Or die trying.

Valentinian and his friends never imagined being trapped underground with their worst enemies-the Widow and her crew. Above-ground, an entire tribe of sex-crazed cannibal mutants rampages, coming for their souls. Enemies must make deals with each other, planning for the inevitable double- and triple-crosses, as well as ferreting out the secrets of the long-forgotten vessel known as Princess Rualoh. Princess Rualoh-the sixth novel in the Shadow of the Dominion series-forges new deals and trickery between enemies as well as friends. And, oh yeah, maybe they'll talk with each other as well. Be sure to read all the books in the series, starting with Longshot Hypothesis.

Valentinian tries to do the right thing, for the clients who hire his spaceship for charter, for his mysterious new crewman Dave, as well as for the variants and aliens he deals with past the worlds in Dominion control, out into Wildspace. But the Dominion casts a long shadow. Sometimes you can never truly escape your past. Particularly when it comes to hunt you down. Read the first three books in the Shadow of the Dominion series! Collected together for the first time. This omnibus includes:Longshot HypothesisHard BargainOutermost