Fall of the Alliance Books
Lord Axel Ivan Vinogradov Is a Mentalist with the Fast Reaction Teams that protect the small population of the Sanctioned Research World of Siberia Max from acquisitive Cross dimensional Worlds. As the Three Part Alliance crumbles, Axel--code name Igor--finds himself overstretched between his duty, and his family. Especially after he is accused of murdering his corrupt and very much not-loved uncle.
Axel Vinogradov is back! And trying to make Siberia Max self sufficient. But is traveling to other worlds to research dairy farms the cover for covert contact a foreign government about an illegal method of controlling portal travel, or are both cover to hide that he's really there to help the son of a friend through his perilous Presentation and Challenge? As Axel falls deeper into a tangle of outmoded laws and customs . . . his Cyborg friends have troubles of their own . . . or is that . . . opportunities?
A Murder Mystery in the Fall of the Alliance series. A Garden Party at Kozlov House, the Host murdered! Detective Inspector Smirnov is back to find the killer. Was it the angry Wife? A Political Rival? The son? The professor? Or . . . something more sinister?
Bad Tölz. A World named for a city on the Home World . . . Barely controlled by the "True Men" Mentalists of the Drei Mächte Bündnis. An unstable alliance of aggressive Worlds . . . on the brink of civil war. Fynn, a bastard half-breed adopted by a friend of his dead father, was, despite his irregular antecedents, an ordinary college student. Then the increasing problems in in the Alliance led his new father to pull him into a secret society sworn to protect an Alliance that is crumbling. When Bad Tölz is invaded, Fynn is all that stands between his World and brutal subjugation.
Detective Inspector Smirnov is back! On medical leave, with his leg in a cast, so the man gunned down in the street wasn't his case. Even thought he'd been in a meeting with the man just a few hours before. No, his problem was reviving the Rigel Brigade because a cross dimensional World has set it's sights on Rigel as a nice place to acquire. So it's time for a cross-dimensional shopping trip for the equipment and personnel the Brigade is going to need. And return to find the Council Chairman and eight others dead in a brutal assassination. Can Inspector Smirnov solve the crimes while training the Brigade? And can he do it before the next invasion?
A Novella in the Fall of the Alliance Series, a sequel to Murder in the Rigel Brigade Vadik Krupin barely survived the brutal shooting that killed his lover's father. As Regina and her sister find themselves at the mercy of the Estate manager, Vadik and his cousin realize that if they're going to save--and marry--the sisters, they're going to have to come up with a whole lot of money, quite quickly. No Romeo and Juliet nonsense, here. This is going to put Cinderella to shame, as the Wheeler Dealer gets going!
Igor's back! And his Cyborg Buddy Murphy is in trouble. As the destabilized Three Part Alliance totters, Igor, AKA Axel Vinogradov has to decide whether to shore up the edifice, or complete the collapse. In the meantime there's a couple of cross dimensional raids, a kidnapped class of teenagers, marooned women on a cross dimensional Tropical Paradise . .
Arkady was a servant's bastard, but when he needed to update his records, his friends dared him to claim a father . . . A year after the Japanese left the Alliance, then turned to attack the Home World . . . things are getting back to normal on Home. Normal being the usual viciously competitive power struggles, both personal and to maintain the class structure of Lords and the brain chipped slaves . . . The Lebedov Family is undergoing a shift in it's internal structure as the older Lords die of natural causes . . . and sometimes helped along . . . Arkady may not have chosen the best time to try to join the ranks of the Lords . . .