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1) Deserter
Author
Series
[Kris Longknife] volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Kris Longknife had no choice about growing up rich and pampered. When she did have a choice, she joined the Marines. But now, a friend needs help halfway across the galaxy-and with a military heritage coursing through her blood, it's time for Kris Longknife to be a hero.
2) Audacious
Author
Series
[Kris Longknife] volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
While vacationing on the world of New Eden, naval officer Kris Longknife finds business mixing with pleasure when she, due to her military status, must attend a social function, where she once again finds herself the target of unknown enemies who have a personal vendetta against her.
3) Mutineer
Author
Series
[Kris Longknife] volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the Prime Minister of her home planet. Her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris's blood-and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the marines.
4) Resolute
Author
Series
[Kris Longknife] volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Kris Longknife has been given her first independent command, in the very remote system of Chance. Before long, she captures pirates who are hiding the location of an uncharted and unpopulated planet of miraculous technology.
5) Defiant
Author
Series
[Kris Longknife] volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With the fleet off on a propaganda mission, Wardhaven is left vulnerable to enemy warships that establish orbit around the planet, demanding surrender. Kris declares herself Commander in Chief and plans a desperate gambit to defend her world.
6) Furious
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For her own protection, Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife is assigned to a backwater planet where her Fast Patrol Squadron 127 enforces immigration control and smuggler interdiction--and where she finds herself homeless, broke, and on trial for her life.
7) Redoubtable
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife and her crew work to take down the pirates and slavers who are preying on millions of suffering refugees, especially after slavers kidnap a young girl, making the task personal as well as political.
8) Defender
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Kris Longknife is back in the good graces of the brass-- and to demonstrate that, they've promoted her to commodore. Now her mission is to find the home base of the aliens who are plaguing the fringes of the galaxy."--Page 4 of cover.
9) Survivor
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seeking revenge for her brother's death, Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald underwent an unlikely transformation, from pampered heir to naval lieutenant. Now a new challenge looms: Vicky will need to use both her military and political ranks to rebuild war-torn planets, planets ruined both by the Peterwald Empire and by Kris Longknife's revolutionary quests.
10) Target
Author
Series
[Vicky Peterwald] volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Victoria Maria Teresa Inez Smythe-Peterwald, daughter of wealth and power, was raised to do little except be attractive and marry well. Then everything changed--her brother, her father's favorite and the heir apparent, was killed in battle by Lieutenant Kris Longknife, daughter of the Peterwalds' longtime enemies. Vicky vowed revenge, but her skill set was more suitable for seduction than assassination, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When an alien race warns them that an unidentifiable force is roaming the galaxy, destroying everything in its path towards human space, Kris Longknife and her crew must take on new roles in order to combat this unknown threat.
12) Tenacious
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Vice Admiral Kris Longknife's honeymoon gets cancelled when she hears that the space raider's home world may have been discovered. Finding where the raiders came from could be the key to saving humanity. If only uncovering their secrets was that easy! As Kris returns home, she ends up tangling with a mutinous crew determined to take off on their own. The dissident group leads Kris straight into a new mess--a system filled with strange, deadly enemies...
13) Unrelenting
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The aliens attacking the planetary system of Alwa are an enemy unlike any Admiral Kris Longknife has ever encountered before. She doesn't know who they are, only that they worship a being known as the Enlightened One and are unafraid to sacrifice themselves against her fleet. But Kris faces more than just the fanatical behavior of an alien armada. A saboteur has infiltrated the military's medical facility and unleashed an epidemic that has spread...
14) Daring
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife leads a reconnaissance mission of the vast uncharted regions of space. No one, least of all Kris, expects to find a hostile alien starship. Now, she must determine the extent of the alien threat-and whether to start an interstellar war"--Novelist.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Commanding the Wasp, a space warship, Kris Longknife, hunting for pirates beyond the Rim, stumbles upon a plan to kill one of the members of the aristocratic Peterwald family and discovers that the would-be killers are setting her up as the assassin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Despite her role as a fleet Admiral and protector of a planetary system, Kris is still beholden to her great grandfather King Raymond's commands. She has been personally selected for a mission that, should she succeed, will save millions of lives. The Peterwald Empire is in the midst of civil war. On one side is the tyrannical Empress, on the other is the last person Kris ever wants to see again--Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald. Due to their shared...
17) Rebel
Author
Series
[Vicky Peterwald] volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Vicky Peterwald is no longer just the heir apparent to an imperial dynasty. She survived naval training and proved her mettle in combat to help the starving people of the ravaged world of St. Petersburg. Now, she is truly a Grand Duchess, leading a growing battle fleet in a rebellion against the tyranny of her stepmother, the Empress"--
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