Lean into the Unknown

Montgomery Hale has been promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade and now has greater responsibilities on the USF Providence. He has junior officers reporting to him for the first time, and a mission list that does not care about the new bar on his collar. The fleet doesn't slow down for a promotion ceremony.A pathogen outbreak at Hark Mining Station threatens to kill thousands. A mysterious wreck drifting in the Mehlin Corridor raises questions fleet command would rather not answer. And an alien probe broadcasting on an unknown frequency from a species nobody in the Union has met has Captain Price asking, why now?Three problems for one bridge crew, and a lieutenant who has spent four years lying about who he is — and who is starting to suspect the bill is coming due.No 10,000 ship fleets fighting endless wars. No civilization ending alien threats. Just good old fun: episodic science fiction in the tradition of the greats.©2026 Joe Durham (P)2026 Joe Durham

In a world that has hunted witches to near extinction, one person can turn the tide in their favor.Gwen has known from a young age that her fate was intertwined with someone who would either save the witches or be the one that leads to their destruction. Fate tasks her with helping the person that can change the course of the world as they know it. When the time finally comes, Gwen is surprised to find that the person she must help is her mate.Atticus has had a hard life. After being betrayed and tortured for years to try and force his compliance to fight in a war he wanted no part of, he snaps and loses himself to his animal side. To escape the torture, he loses a part of himself, not sure he’ll ever get it back. That is, until he finds his mate.Will Atticus be able to protect his mate from the things that haunt his past or will his abusers take even more from him than they already have?If you love:Emotional ScarsFated MatesForced ProximityShiftersTouch her and dieWitches/MagicGrumpy/SunshineThis book can be read as a standalone, there is NO cliffhanger. The other books in the series are also standalone's but are best read in order for a more enjoyable reading experience. There is a plot that travels all three books and is technically resolved in book three, but it is not necessary to be read to feel like each book has a conclusion. Each book follows a different couple, while still bringing back the faces from the last book(s) until the world's problems are solved.©2025 Kaya May (P)2026 Kaya May

A colony has voted to leave the Union, and worse, to ignore physics.A drifting gravitational anomaly is on a six-week track to cross Halen Colony's star system. The math says it will shift Halen's orbit by enough to render the planet uninhabitable inside a season. Halen's biosphere will not survive what is coming.Halen's elected council has voted that the math is a fleet manipulation. They have voted to secede. They have voted to refuse fleet evacuation, fleet assistance, and fleet ships in their orbit. Tin-foil hats abound.The Providence has been ordered to fix the orbit anyway, with or without permission. The window is six weeks. Any solution requires the colony's cooperation, which they have voted not to give.Montgomery Hale is going to the surface with the diplomatic team. Helm on the ship, field officer on the ground. A possible promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade looms, and his performance on this mission will be a deciding factor.Montgomery is also not who his service jacket says he is. He never went to the fleet academy. The record that put him on this ship is a forgery he built when he was seventeen, sitting on the floor of a station corridor with everything he owned in a bag. Captain Price has suspected it from the day Montgomery came aboard and has chosen not to ask.On day three of the Halen mission, Price asks Montgomery how you move colonists who have decided not to be moved. It's the kind of question a captain asks a junior officer when he's already decided the junior officer has the answer. The answer lives in the part of Montgomery's life that isn't on file.Montgomery can answer as the orphaned colonist kid he was--someone with street-smarts that understands the mindset of the conspiracy theory-embracing colonists. Or he can keep the lid on and watch a colony get cooked by physics nobody on the ground believes in.An Officer of the Union Space Fleet, Book 3. No galactic wars. Just a kid trying to save a planet that doesn't want to be saved.©2026 Joe Durham (P)2026 Joe Durham

He's on the primary helm rotation. The captain trusts him. He flew the corridor mission and he didn't get caught. After a year of waiting for someone to figure out his academy record was forged on a rented terminal when he was sixteen, he's finally relaxing into the job.

That's when things get bad.

Every mission he flies well makes his record look more wrong. A commendation puts his file on a desk at fleet personnel. An operations officer with a perfect memory starts noticing. And then the ship gets orders back to the station where Montgomery grew up--to save it from falling into the gas giant below. Just one person recognizing him could send him to a prison colony for 20 years. As the mission to save the station from falling to the planet below heats up, so does Montgomery's mission to stay under the radar. Both missions collide in this exciting second instalment

What if aliens are real?What if they were at work behind the scenes, subverting the good of all mankind?If you knew the truth, what would you do about it?Zane Taylor knows the truth.  His group of friends narrowly escaped when an alien ship used advanced technology to create tectonic instability on Noble Prime.  Their alien weapon set off massive earthquakes that slaughtered thousands of international workers on the fringe world.  And there’s no doubt that same nefarious aliens are working to isolate and slowly starve the entire human race. The survivors from Noble Prime have one chance to prove to the world what is really going on.  The psy-op war is happening whether people believe in it or not.  But Zane and his friends will have to risk everything to pull off a nearly impossible mission, with no guarantees that it will work.  But in times of desperate need, the courageous step up, and the best parts of humanity shine through.Siege is the stunning conclusion to the Alien Agenda trilogy.  A fast-paced, space opera adventure set in the near future, Siege combines great characters with a frighteningly real scenario that feels as if it were ripped from the headlines.  If you liked The X-Files, and The Expanse, you’ll love Siege and the entire Alien Agenda trilogy.

When evil lurks in the shadowsNo place is safeNoble Prime is a world on the fringe of explored space. The International Space Exploration Foundation (ISEF) operates mining and research facilities on the frozen planet. It is home to large predators that necessitate a rotating force of security agents from every available contracting firm.Hellespont is the oldest and largest facility, with researchers doing work on the surface and miners delving deep into the bedrock below. It’s also where someone is trying to kill Zane Taylor.But there’s more to Noble Prime than meets the eye, and it’s drawing interest from powerful forces that have yet to step into the light. Man is not alone in the universe, and there is more at stake than most people realize.It won’t take much to blow the Alien Agenda conspiracy wide open. But doing so will put Zane and the people he cares about in mortal danger. The forces arrayed against the truth conspire to keep their presence hidden, but Zane Taylor is determined to shine a light on their nefarious plans, if he can just live long enough to pull it off.Conspire is the second book in prolific author Toby Neighbors’ science fiction conspiracy thriller series The Alien Agenda. It’s a fast-paced, action-packed novel with characters you’ll love to cheer for. If you like Firefly, The Expanse, and X-Files, you’ll love Conspire.

Montgomery Hale is seventeen, broke, and about to commit the biggest fraud of his life.He's spent years fixing machines on a backwater space station, saving every credit for a fleet academy education he'll never afford. When a last-minute vacancy opens on the Union's flagship, he does the only thing a desperate kid with a talent for forging documents would do.He fakes his way aboard.Now he's an ensign on the most prestigious ship in the fleet, surrounded by officers who earned their commissions, flying a vessel he's never been trained to operate, and reporting to a captain who sees more than he lets on.The ship's mission: chart a newly discovered passage through dangerous space to reconnect twelve colony worlds that have been isolated for forty years. People on those colonies are dying of treatable diseases. Children have never seen a supply ship. The clock is ticking, and Montgomery is at the helm.No alien armadas. No galactic wars. No chosen-one prophecies. Just a kid who's good with his hands, bad with people, and slowly learning that you can't fly a four-hundred-crew starship the same way you fly a junkyard skiff — alone. Ensign is competence fiction in the tradition of Star Trek's best episodes — the ones where nobody fires a weapon and the crew solves the problem by being good at their jobs. It's about fixing what's broken, learning to ask for help, and discovering that the hardest part of being part of a crew is trusting them.

A hidden conspiracy…A secret war against mankind…Something big is coming.Mankind is branching out, traveling to nearby star systems in search of habitable worlds and valuable resources. Technology continues to advance at a seemingly breakneck pace, but the ability to break the light-speed barrier seems out of reach. Or maybe the conspiracy theorists are right after all, maybe there is a conspiracy between the rich and powerful to hold humanity back.Second chances don’t come around every day.Regenerative Therapy can reverse aging, but the costs are staggering. Staff Sergeant Zane Taylor has served for eighteen years, putting his life on the line for the Western Alliance in their ongoing conflicts around the world. But a training accident has derailed his plans for the future and left him without many options.Willing to do just about anything to get the Regen Therapy that would heal his shattered hip and give him a second chance at life, Zane Taylor took the only option he had left. But no one foresaw what would happen when he joined Exsol, a private security firm offering services to corporate interests on foreign worlds.There is a secret war brewing. Few know what’s happening, or who is really behind the events shaping life in the Sol system. Join former SSG Zane Taylor as he discovers the alien agenda that is threatening the future of the human race. Foray is the first book in a Conspiracy Sci-Fi series that is loaded with mystery, suspense, and lots of action. Travel through space to the fringe worlds and discover the secrets for yourself. Fans of the X-Files, Firefly, and Stargate will surely love Foray and the entire Alien Agenda series.

Broadway’s Spellbinding Sensation Harry Potter and the Cursed Childis coming to a city near you on its first-ever North American Tour. Join the next adventure and experience the wizarding world like never before at this record-breaking, Tony Award-winning hit, hailed as “one of the most defining pop culture events of the decade” (Forbes).

When Harry Potter’s head-strong son Albus befriends the son of his fiercest rival, Draco Malfoy, it sparks an unbelievable new journey for them all—with the power to change the past and future forever. Prepare for a mind-blowing race through time, spectacular spells, and an epic battle, all brought to life with the most astonishing theatrical magic ever seen on stage. It’s a “marvel of imagination” (The New York Times) that will “leave you wondering ‘how’d they do that?’ for days to come” (People Magazine).

Jenna Kane, a specialist in the Mind over Martyr program, ventures into the Kandahar Mountains of Afghanistan to rescue a Muslim boy who is speaking out against the Shadow Mediators. Jenna and her Delta team discover a trove of magical jewels. Chris Lone Hawk, a dog handler on her team, hides these jewels in a Lord of the Rings Chess set and smuggles them into America. In this Mythic Fantasy, Jenna discovers the well-hidden jewels when she is ruthlessly attacked by a priest from the sect of Moloch. In her struggle to recover from the chemical he sprays her with, she is amazed when the magic ignites and the tiny gems are absorbed into the Medicine bag she wears around her neck.