Michael R. Hicks

Led by Commander Owen McClaren, the TNS Aurora is embarked on an extended survey mission, searching for new worlds that could support human life. Drawn to an uncharted star system by the discovery of potentially habitable planets, the crew of the Aurora discovers something entirely unexpected: the planets are already inhabited, but not by humans. Approached by gigantic alien starships, Aurora's crew makes ready for humanity's very first contact with another sentient race. But nothing could prepare them for what fate has in store. For they have entered the domain of the Kreelan Empire, which has waited thousands of years to find another spacefaring race against which to wage war to honor their Empress. With all but one of the crew killed in bloody close combat, the aliens send Aurora home bearing the sole survivor: the Messenger, a young crewman who carries with him an alien artifact that is humanity's only sign of how much time remains until they are plunged into an interstellar war...

First Contact (In Her Name, Book 1)

In the first book of an epic futuristic fantasy trilogy, this is the story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their god-like Empress. Captured and enslaved, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experiment to see if humans have souls, and if one may be the key to unlocking an ages old curse upon the Kreelan race. Enduring the brutal conditions of Kreelan life, Reza and a young warrior named Esah-Zhurah find themselves bound together by fate and a prophecy foretold millennia before they were born.Publisher's note: This book is the first section of the original novel IN HER NAME, which is now the omnibus edition containing the entire trilogy under one cover.

In Her Name: Empire

In the first book of an epic futuristic fantasy trilogy, this is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Nightmarish female warriors with blue skin, fangs, and razor sharp talons, the Kreelans have technology that is millennia beyond that of the Confederation, yet they seek out close combat with sword and claw, fighting and dying to honor their god-like Empress. Captured and enslaved, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experiment to see if humans have souls, and if one may be the key to unlocking an ages old curse upon the Kreelan race. Enduring the brutal conditions of Kreelan life, Reza and a young warrior named Esah-Zhurah find themselves bound together by fate and a prophecy foretold millennia before they were born.

Empire (In Her Name, Book 4)

In the second book of the In Her Name trilogy, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carr . With their help, he fulfills his childhood dream of becoming a Confederation Marine as he befriends Eustus Camden, who becomes his best friend and ally. Reza will need all the help he can get, for dark forces are at work at the heart of the Confederation, and Reza becomes a pawn in a lethal power struggle that leads him back to the planet Erlang. There, a heartbreaking reunion awaits him, along with the discovery of an ages-old power that the Kreelan Empire will stop at nothing to control. Publisher's note: This book is the second section of the original novel In Her Name, which is now the omnibus edition containing the entire trilogy under one cover.

In Her Name: Confederation

Season Of The Harvest

First Contact (In Her Name

For long ages, the Kreelan race has been ruled by war. Only the priests and priestesses of the ancient martial orders prevented total annihilation as countless times civilizations arose, only to collapse again into savagery.But one day, a powerful warrior arose from the Great Wastelands. Known as the Dark Queen, she begins a war of conquest across the face of the Homeworld, secretly planning to destroy the priesthoods and resurrect the dark ways of her race's apocalyptic past.But one thing she did not anticipate was the birth of Keel-Tath, a child unlike any other. A child foretold in an ancient prophecy, who would rise to wield the supernatural powers of all the martial orders. A child the Dark Queen must kill, no matter the cost...

From Chaos Born (In Her Name, Book 7)

In the final book of an epic trilogy, In Her Name: Final Battle picks up where In Her Name: Confederation left off:Reza Gard awakens in a hospital on Earth after having been in a coma for months. Charged with murder and high treason, he finds himself the scapegoat for a daring plot to assassinate the President of the Confederation.Escaping with the help of Jodi Mackenzie, who is now hunted for what she knows about the death of the president, Reza discovers that something is deeply wrong with the Empire: the warriors have lost their will to fight. Compelled to step into a trap set for him and Jodi, the two once again find themselves bound for Erlang. But this time it is to meet Tesh-Dar, who has been captured.Captured and sentenced to death, they can only watch as a human armada gathers for a strike against the Kreelan homeworld. But the human fleet - and humanity itself - will be doomed to utter annihilation unless Reza can save his Empress from death...

Final Battle

In Her Name First Contact

A year after the Sutter Buttes incident. Jack Dawson and Naomi Perrault, having failed to find the elusive bag of lethal New Horizons seed, are fired and the secret agency established under President Curtis to study the harvesters is shut down. Little do they know that an unforeseen horror is about to erupt across the globe, one they may not be able to stop...

Bitter Harvest (Harvest Trilogy, Book 2)

Kreelan High Priestess Tesh-Dar thought nearly a century of agony had been her greatest trial. Then her Empress placed the survival of their entire species in Tesh-Dar’s hands. When she cloistered herself away in the temple of the Desh-Ka after she brought shame upon herself during the battle on Saint Petersburg, Tesh-Dar endured a nightmarish ordeal of pain and suffering to redeem her honor. Summoned by the Empress after nearly a century, Tesh-Dar was given an impossible task: find The One among the humans spoken of in an ancient prophecy who could save her own kind from extinction. On a small colony world, Lieutenant Colonel Wiley Hickock of the Confederation Marine Corps leads a brutally mauled Marine division against a vastly superior Kreelan force. Drawing on his knowledge of ancient human history, he hands his alien enemies not just one, but two spectacular defeats. But after he is nearly killed by Tesh-Dar and no longer able to fight after suffering major brain damage, he’s exiled by his hateful son to the backwater world of Hallmark to work as a lowly handyman. Emotionally numb and stricken with nightmares after his parents are killed by Tesh-Dar, Reza finds that the Kreelans aren’t the only enemies he will have to face. But he also learns that he won’t have to face them alone: Wiley becomes his friend, protector, and surrogate father against those who prey on the children. All Reza has to do is survive long enough to become a Marine and take vengeance against the aliens who killed his parents. On the far side of the galaxy, young warrior Esah-Zhurah is sent to the Homeworld to learn all she can about the humans as part of a great experiment set in motion by Tesh-Dar, to teach humans of the Kreelan Way in hopes that at least one of them has a soul and can save their people. There is only one slight problem: Esah-Zhurah hates humans with a fiery passion. From the frozen wastes atop an ancient mountain of the Kreelan Homeworld to the arid wheat-covered plains of the planet Hallmark, Tesh-Dar’s quest binds Reza, Esah-Zhurah, Wiley, and others to an ancient prophecy. The only question is who, if any, among them will survive. Author's note: Quest For The One falls between Dead Soul and Empire in the In Her Name saga. If you enjoy tales of epic space opera, alien invasion, and interstellar war, blended with science as magic and loaded with action and adventure, you’ll love Quest For The One! Get your copy now!

Quest For The One (In Her Name, Book 11)

First Contact (In Her Name: The Last War, Book 1, Illustrated Edition)

Final Battle (In Her Name

Confederation (In Her Name

Avery Moore is rushed to the hospital with a suspected case of appendicitis. But when he awakens after his procedure, he finds himself in a small white room, strapped to a table and his lips sewn shut. Then he discovers that his nightmare has only begun...

The Journal Of Avery Moore

This is the second trilogy collection of the In Her Name series and includes the full text of the standalone novels First Contact, Legend of the Sword, and Dead Soul.

The Last War

In Her Name

Six months have passed since the destruction of the human colony on Keran by the alien Kreelan Empire. Earth and other human worlds band together to form the Confederation of Humanity to provide a mutual defense against the alien invaders.Unfortunately, not all human worlds want to join the Confederation. Some, like Saint Petersburg, would rather see it destroyed. With a powerful navy built in secret and armed with nuclear weapons, Saint Petersburg is preparing their own offensive against the Confederation when the Kreelans attack.Led by Tesh-Dar, an enigmatic Kreelan warrior priestess, the Kreelan Empire has begun its quest in earnest to find the One, an alien - a human - who might be able to lift the ages-old curse upon their race, a curse that will leave her species extinct in but a few more generations. But to find the One, they must bleed the humans in war...

Legend Of The Sword (In Her Name, Book 2)

Apathy! Perhaps the greatest challenge facing schools in America today. Teachers, counselors and caring adults are laboring to save students from failing, but despite all their efforts, many teenagers just don't seem to care about school. Though tugged in the right direction, some are determined to “crawl” themselves through the proverbial cracks. The symptoms of apathy are familiar and include things like chronic absenteeism, lack of motivation, being disorganized, inattentive, unprepared, abrasive, disrespectful, distracted and lethargic, to mention a few. Educators prod, lecture and admonish these teenagers to take school serious and to be responsible, but nothing seems to stir interest or kindle their desire to achieve academically. A lot of research has been done to address the problem and school districts have implemented a myriad of intervention programs to meet the need. Much of the focus however, is on outward symptoms and the obvious is often overlooked…apathy has roots! In this book we will look below the surface and into the subterranean world where struggling students think, feel and live. Original stories, written by students about their own lives, will help us learn how teenagers often lose their way in school. We will let "them" tell "us" how they slipped into the “I don't care” fog we call apathy. In Roots of Apathy we will explore the powerful impact of factors like divorce, violence at home, drug and alcohol abuse, neglect, poverty, the loss of a loved one, the lure of unhealthy friendships, insecurities, frequent moving, addictions, sexual abuse, shame and how these factors lead to debilitating emotions like depression, discouragement, anger, grief, bitterness, hopelessness and fear. These companions of apathy are often the real culprits hidden beneath the surface of the struggling student. Though hard to see at times, locked inside the apathetic teenager, is a beautiful young person with all the hopes, dreams and aspirations that we had when we were their age. But for many of them the road has been hard. The storms of life have turned their world upside down. What we see on the outside is often their desperate attempt to cope with what we don't see on the inside. For some, their problems feel so heavy they can't carry anything else, not even school. In Roots of Apathy we will rediscover what it's like to be a teenager living through difficult circumstances and then explore ways to connect with them. Some will need our help learning to persevere through adversity, rather than just hunkering down and simply enduring suffering. Others will need help learning to forgive the people who've hurt them and let them down. Nearly all struggling teenagers will need hope to believe that the horrible things that have happened to them can have meaning; that surviving storms can uniquely equip them to help other struggling souls one day. If you are looking for another book with lots of pedagogical jargon and references to research studies, you should pick up something else to read. This is not that kind of book. In Roots of Apathy, the stories of students themselves drive the narrative. Some parts may make you smile, while other parts make you cry. I hope when you finish reading you will be inspired to keep loving kids and to care relentlessly for the ones who so desperately need us to not give up on them.

Roots of Apathy

In the second book of the In Her Name trilogy after In Her Name: Empire, Reza Gard has been banished from the Kreelan Empire and is once again a stranger in a strange land as he returns to the human Confederation. Befriended by a marooned Confederation naval officer leading a desperate fight against the Kreelans on a distant colony world, she reunites Reza with Nicole Carre. With their help, he fulfills his childhood dream of becoming a Confederation Marine. Reza will need all the help he can get, for dark forces are at work at the heart of the Confederation, and Reza becomes a pawn in a lethal power struggle that leads him back to the planet Erlang. There, a heartbreaking reunion awaits him, along with the discovery of an ages-old power that the Kreelan Empire will stop at nothing to control.Publisher's note: This book is the second section of the original novel In Her Name (Omnibus Edition), which contains the entire trilogy under one cover.

Confederation (In Her Name, Book 5)

Keel-Tath, the child foretold by an ancient prophecy, has grown to be a young warrior in the confines of the Desh-Ka temple, where she has been sheltered by her old friend and mentor Ayan-Dar from the clutches of Syr-Nagath, the Dark Queen. But when Keel-Tath is forced to choose between sanctuary and her honor, she takes matters into her own hands in a world torn by war...

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