Black Key Books

To survive on an alien world, Kaishi must decide whether to trust the creature inside her mind, or reject it and risk everything to fight for her freedom.Ignos lied. The alien promised to take Kaishi and her friends back to Earth, to home. Instead,...

Home. Kaishi can see Earth, but between her and home sits a hostile fleet, a desolate wasteland, and too many things that want her dead.Her sole chance at survival depends on a risky attempt to reach Earth's far side, where nobody Kaishi knows has...

Get in. Get out. Get paid. That's the motto for this squad of hardened mercenaries, one they're about to test as they get sent on a secret mission to a backwater world teeming with unexpected enemies. From jungle swamps to deadly caves, secret bases...

Get in fast. Rescue the VIP. Get out. Sever Squad is outnumbered, outgunned, and every second spent on Dynas ticks them closer to a fiery end.When a strange rescue signal comes in, Sever Squad gets the call. They're tough, reckless, and one carries a...

On a fringe planet, Sever Squad makes a last, desperate effort to destroy a deadly horde before it can consume the galaxy.After licking their wounds, Sever Squad gets a tip telling them to pick up their rifles, their swords, and their ship: the last...

With a team member taken hostage and a child in danger, Sever Squad pursues a deadly agent across the galaxy.Having left their command ship in ruins, the traitorous agents Vana and Renard look for the final missing piece to create a devastating new...

Sever squad went to rescue a missing VIP. Now they're broken up, hunted, and trapped on a planet filled with people, and worse, who want them dead.Not that Sever would have it any other way.Bashing their way into a fog-shrouded city, Aurora and her...

After breaking open a sinister secret and deserting DefenseCorp, Sever Squad's been invited back, providing they give up the little girl they've sworn to protect.Going home isn't easy, but Sever needs new gear, medical attention, and a hot meal after...

For some, their past haunts them. For Sever Squad, their past gets revenge.After leaving Dynas with secrets and suspicions, Sever Squad abandons their employer and makes for a secluded mining world to figure out what's next. An offer to help remove...

Kaishi embraced the gifts the Sevora gave her, but becoming an empress has attracted the kind of attention that comes with claws.Following the Sevora’s guidance has brought Kaishi and her people back from ruin and into prosperity, but as miracle after...

The dead belong in Riven. The living on Earth. But as war fills Riven to bursting, Carver has to find a way to keep those lines clear, or there won’t be much difference between the worlds for long.Guiding the dead to their next life has never been an...

All his life, Carver wanted to save Riven, the world of the dead. Now, to save those he loves, he has to destroy it.With the Guides in shambles and Riven overrun with furious dead, Carver embarks on a final journey to try and keep the departed where...

To save her family, Kaishi fights a desperate war for survival against enemies from Earth and far beyond.Meanwhile, an alien warrior must choose between his honor and his orders as his love faces a fate worse than death.Caught between warring...

As winter ravages the Seven Isles, a barbarian drives into the depths to slay the fiends, or die trying.Svarde, with a warband behind him, brings his axes to bear on the monsters far below the surface. If he can find the fiend's source and stop their...

He fought to save humanity. Now he’s having second thoughts.After more than a thousand years in flight, Starship is crashing towards a new home. At its helm, a corrupted machine with unknown goals and deadly tactics. Scrappy human leftovers cluster in...

Carver thought he’d saved the world from the endless dead, but as Earth tries to find peace, a new threat targets the guides themselves, and Carver’s first on its list.With WW1 still raging away, lost souls continue to pour into Riven, filling its...

In the far future, a dormant android awakes on a vast starship to find humanity's last hopes rest with him.Launched to carry the human species across the galaxy, Starship's generations-long journey has crumbled as machines took everything from their...

In the far future, a dormant android awakes on a vast starship to find humanity's last hopes rest with him.Launched to carry the human species across the galaxy, Starship's generations-long journey has crumbled as machines took everything from their...

Two androids. One captive. A vast ship filled with deadly secrets on the galaxy’s edge.Gamma completed his mission: the Nursery and its human future is safe . . . for the moment. Dangerous mechs wander Starship, broken code driving them to...

The Aegis is dying, and the fiends are coming.Across the Seven Isles, whispers sound of strange creatures haunting steps, of disappearances and deaths. Those rumors don’t reach the jungles of Vis, where Wax and his friends journey far from home...

The Renewal has begun, and Wax’s journey across the seven isles with it. First up comes Foti, a lava-blasted rock known for its ale and iron. Crossing from its coasts to the Great Forge is an adventure filled with watchful eyes, glittering creatures,...

The northern waters hold dark secrets, ones Wax needs to uncover if he's going to get one step closer to the Wound and its throne. Before such lofty ideas can be set in motion, though, Wax and his guardians have to find a ride upriver, a task made...