Military

by Steven Shepard

March 1864. The American Civil War is reaching its agonizing twilight, but for the citizens of Shreveport, Louisiana, the horror is just beginning. Captain Douglas Ivey, CSA, starts his morning with a quiet cup of coffee on his mother's front porch, unaware that an unstoppable Union juggernaut—30,000 soldiers of the Army of the Gulf—is marching straight toward his home with devastating intent. Tasked with a high-stakes, borderline-suicidal reconnaissance mission, Douglas is ordered down the Red River Road to locate and count the invading enemy. What begins as a strategic military assignment quickly spirals into an intimate nightmare. The mission thrusts Douglas, his closest friends, and members of his own family directly into the path of an oncoming war machine, fracturing loyalties and putting everything he loves in mortal danger. Spanning the massive, 565-page canvas of a nation tearing itself apart, the narrative follows the explosive fallout of Douglas's discovery. As the Union army advances, the Ivey family is split across ideological and physical battle lines. From the gritty, tactical tension of deep-reconnaissance scouting to the grand, visceral chaos of major military campaigns, the story explores the brutal realities of 19th-century combat through the eyes of those forced to fight it. As General George S. Patton famously observed, "Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance." For Douglas and his kin, this insignificance becomes a tragic reality. They are stripped of their peace, their security, and their innocence, forced to endure the absolute limits of human endurance. Ultimately, the story builds to a gripping climax where survival is just the first step. As the smoke finally clears over the blood-stained soil of Louisiana, the surviving members of the Ivey family face an even greater challenge: how to heal, how to forgive, and how to reconstruct their shattered lives from the ashes of a war that changed them forever.

by A.S Thomas

White Rabbit was raised to be a killer. Underland is where she was raised. She was literally made for one thing: to kill. But after a brief encounter with an agent from S.A.T Secret Agent TECS, she begins to question her purpose.

by Ashti Buttafuco

Kelly and her tactical team are Briefed in Lies and are sent out to hunt and dangerous cryptid but soon discover the suits lied to them. Confused she soon discovers they are being hunted by a Skin Walker. Will Kelly be able to keep herself and her team alive? Find out by reading Briefed in Lies.

by Bryan R Barton

They are not ordinary soldiers. They are the shadows before the storm.\ Forged in secrecy, bound by discipline, and driven by an unbreakable code, The Black Watch stands apart from every regiment that came before it. Under the command of Michael Reeves, these handpicked warriors are stripped of old limits and remade through fire, loyalty, and relentless training into something far greater than men in uniform.\ Their creed is simple but absolute: the mission comes first, surrender is not an option, and no fallen comrade is ever abandoned. In a nation torn by war, The Black Watch becomes a silent weapon in the fight for liberty, moving where others cannot, striking when hope seems lost, and carrying the weight of freedom on their shoulders.\ But the Warrior Ethos is more than an oath recited before presidents and generals. It is the heartbeat of a brotherhood, the compass that guides them through fear, sacrifice, and the darkness of battle. For Reeves and his men, courage is not the absence of fear. It is the decision to rise anyway.\ To wear the Black Watch uniform is to become the storm.

by Revdoug

Sixteen-year-old Melvin Cornedge refuses to wait for the world to decide his fate. With his father, Sergeant Marvin Cornedge, missing in action in Europe, Melvin forges enlistment papers and joins the 29th Infantry, determined to bring his father home. What begins as a desperate act of love becomes a brutal coming‑of‑age as Melvin is thrust into the second wave at Omaha Beach, where boys become soldiers in minutes and survival is a matter of inches. Back in Redd Hollow, Kentucky, Melvin’s mother, Dahlila, struggles to hold the family together after discovering her son’s lie. Her daughters watch the house fall quiet as she prays for two men at war—one missing, one too young to be there at all. Training breaks Melvin down, but the battlefield remakes him. Guided by the hardened but loyal Sergeant Waylon, he witnesses the true cost of war: shattered towns, wounded brothers, and the thin line between courage and fear. Along the way, fragments of Marvin’s fate surface—a medic’s testimony, a bloodstained note, and rumors of a man who refused to leave the wounded behind. As Melvin fights through Normandy, he begins to understand the weight his father carried, and the price of stepping into another man’s boots. The search for Marvin becomes a journey that will define the rest of Melvin’s life. Years later, Melvin’s son James uncovers the letters and silences left behind, realizing that some wars never end—they echo through families, passed quietly from father to son as acts of love that outlast the battlefield.

by joshua gibson

Caleb Monroe survived the war, but he did not come home whole. After an ambush near Ghazni costs him his right leg and takes the life of his closest friend, Caleb returns to Texas carrying wounds no surgeon can repair. His marriage is broken, his faith is buried under anger, and his relationship with his young son is slipping away. When a failed attempt to end his pain leaves him alive, Caleb is forced to face the wreckage he has spent years trying to outrun. Through his twin sister Riley, a wounded nurse named Leah, and an old veteran named Jenkins, Caleb is drawn into Rally Point—a Christ-centered refuge for veterans, families, and the brokenhearted. Inside the retired walls of Station 9, Caleb begins to learn that redemption does not erase the fire. It teaches a man how to rise from the ashes.

by Sarah Bantu

**About the Story** What if the key to your survival was locked inside a secret, ancient bloodline?\ Spun from a fascinating true piece of Russian history and set against the brutal, breathtaking backdrop of the frozen north, *Daughter of the Falcon* blends gripping suspense with an unforgettable romance.\ For centuries, deep within the endless, snow covered forests, an elite and hidden clan of warriors lived by their own laws. They did not just survive the winter they ruled it, training lethal military falcons to hunt, fight, and protect secrets hidden from the world. Today, that fierce bloodline legacy is alive, but the isolation of the frozen north is cracking. A dangerous, unpredictable threat is closing in, forcing old secrets into the light and testing the loyalty of a clan that has never bowed to anyone.\ Filled with high stakes twists, deep betrayal, and a slow burn love story that burns hot against the bitter ice, this fiction novel proves that some family histories can never stay buried. Step into a harsh, beautiful world where danger hides in every shadow, trust is a luxury, and you never know what's going to happen next. Discover what happens when the frost bites deep, and the falcon finally takes flight.

by Raven Hawthorne

The countdown has reached its final hours. Armed with their freshly minted flagship, *The Defiance Call*, and a newly assembled armada of white-alloy Krynn heavy cruisers, Elena, Marcus, and Commander Aris Tarek plunge through a slipstream gate back to their home world. They arrive to find Earth's atmosphere transformed into an active warzone, completely blockaded by the ruthless Vanguard execution fleet and the invasive biomass-harvesting spires of the Xylos Swarm. ​To win this final, desperate war for sovereign freedom, the crew must orchestrate a coordinated, three-front military operation. On the ground, Captain Marcus Burke aligns with the remnants of Earth's shattered surface military forces, leading high-stakes tactical strikes to shatter the Swarm's harvesting network. In orbit, a joint defense fleet must hold the line against massive Vanguard dreadnoughts. ​Meanwhile, Dr. Elena Ross and Commander Aris bypass automated defenses to infiltrate a core repository buried deep below the planet’s surface—the primary planetary engine built by humanity’s ancient creators, the Builders. To permanently activate the planetary shield matrix and neutralize the rogue machines, Elena must act as the ultimate bridge between humanity's raw tactical survival and the precursor architecture. Defying their intended genetic purpose, humanity must rely on pure mechanistic strategy, grit, and synchronicity to claim their inheritance as the legitimate heirs to Earth before the planet is sterilized forever.

by Raven Hawthorne

​Dr. Elena Ross expected a standard research mission, but nothing could prepare her for the day Earth's atmosphere became an active intergalactic warzone. Without warning, a blinding ionization storm erupts across the valley, shredding her river convoy and forcing the survivors to flee into a hidden jungle canyon. Guided by Captain Marcus Burke, a hardened military escort, the remnants of the team seek shelter inside what appears to be a monolithic stone ruin. They quickly discover it is an entrance to a massive subterranean hub—part of an ancient, automated planetary defense network left behind by a long-lost alien race known only as the Builders. The computer system is a malfunctioning military network executing a corrupted protocol. As the hub seals them inside, its automated scanners detect a rare Precursor marker in Elena and Marcus's DNA, registering them as authorized operators. ​Unfortunately, the hub’s malfunction has already initiated a catastrophic global chain reaction, firing energy beams into orbit that drag an ongoing alien war directly into the skies of Earth. Enemy fleets drop out of hyperspace, clashing over the planet as the malfunctioning computer coordinates the chaos from below. ​Deep within the automated facility, Elena and Marcus trigger an emergency backup system that opens a long-hidden stasis pod, awakening a sleeping alien officer named Aris Tarek. As the war rages in the atmosphere above, this newly awakened survivor is the only one who holds the command codes to override the malfunctioning grid. ​Forced into an uneasy alliance, Elena, Marcus, and Aris must race through interconnected underground facility hubs to shut down the array. They are trying to survive, stop a rogue machine, and negotiate a peace treaty before Earth's atmosphere is completely incinerated.