Joel Shepherd

A Cassandra Kresnov Novel

1 - Crossover (Aug-2006)
2 - Breakaway (Apr-2007)
3 - Killswitch (Dec-2007)
4 - 23 Years on Fire (Sep-2013)
5 - Operation Shield (Apr-2014)
6 - Originator (Jan-2015)

The Spiral Wars

1 - Renegade (Aug-2016)
2 - Drysine Legacy (Jun-2016)
3 - Kantovan Vault (Mar-2017)
4 - Defiance (Oct-2017)
5 - Croma Venture (Aug-2018)
6 - Rando Splicer (Aug-2019)
7 - Qalea Drop (Mar-2021)

A Trial of Blood and Steel

1 - Sasha (Oct-2009)
2 - Petrodor (Mar-2010)
3 - Tracato (Oct-2010)
4 - Haven (May-2011)

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  Crossover
  

  • Aug-2006
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  A Cassandra Kresnov Novel - 1
  

  MEET CASSANDRA KRESNOV. SOLDIER. LOVER. FIGHTER. DEEPLY PASSIONATE. COMPLETELY ARTIFICIAL. Cassandra is a synthetic person, created by the League to fight in an inter stellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. An experimental d...

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  Breakaway
  

  • Apr-2007
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Cassandra Kresnov Novel - 2
  

  Cassandra Kresnov is a highly advanced hunter-killer android. She has escaped the League and fled to Callay, a member of the Federation. Because of her fighting skills she was able to save the president's life and is now a trusted member of the secur...

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  Killswitch
  

  • Dec-2007
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  A Cassandra Kresnov Novel - 3
  

  Two years after the unhatching of Callayan President Neiland's plot to make the capital city of Tanusha the centre of the Federation, Callay is under siege. So begins the third installment of this gripping trilogy from an exciting new sci-fi author. ...

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  Sasha
  

  • Oct-2009
  • / Fantasy
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  A Trial of Blood and Steel - 1
  

  SASHA IS A FIGHTER, THE LIKE OF WHICH THE HIGHLAND COUNTRY OF LENAYIN HAS NEVER SEEN. Spurning her royal heritage to be raised by the great warrior, Kessligh, her exquisite swordplay astonishes all who witness it. But Sasha is still young, untested ...

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  Petrodor
  

  • Mar-2010
  • / Fantasy
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  A Trial of Blood and Steel - 2
  

  Book two in the quartet A Trial of Blood & Steel picks up the story of the brave and independent heroine, Sasha, now living in the port city of Petrodor. Away from the hills of her Lenayin homeland, Sasha is making a new life in the dark alleys and w...

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  Tracato
  

  • Oct-2010
  • / Fantasy
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  A Trial of Blood and Steel - 3
  

  For two hundred years Tracato has been the center of enlightenment, as the serrin have occupied human lands and sought to remake humanity anew. But the serrin have not destroyed Rhodaan's feudal families entirely, and as Tracato faces the greatest th...

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  Haven
  

  • May-2011
  • / Fantasy
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  A Trial of Blood and Steel - 4
  

  The great powers of the Saalshen Bacosh are falling. The feudal army of the Regent Balthaar Arosh marches victorious across Rhodaan and Enora, determined to restore the old human ways that were abolished by the serrin of Saalshen two centuries before...

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  23 Years on Fire
  

  • Sep-2013
  • / Science Fiction
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  A Cassandra Kresnov Novel - 4
  

  Cassandra Kresnov--a highly advanced hunter-killer android--returns to face down a rogue government's plot to eliminate free will. Commander Cassandra Kresnov has her hands full. She must lead an assault against the Federation world of Pyeon...

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  Operation Shield
  

  • Apr-2014
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  A Cassandra Kresnov Novel - 5
  

  Part military SF, part cyberpunk, part grand-scale space opera, and part techno-psychological thriller, the Cassandra Kresnov novels transcend the recently narrow segmentation of the science fiction genre. In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered...

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  Originator
  

  • Jan-2015
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  A Cassandra Kresnov Novel - 6
  

  Hope for the future in the hands of an enemy from the past... Cassandra Kresnov must find the answers that could free her people -- or doom her family. A quarter of a million people die in the destruction of the moon Cresta. The League civil w...

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  Drysine Legacy
  

  • Jun-2016
  • / Space Opera
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  The Spiral Wars - 2
  

  The legendary battle-carrier UFS Phoenix is on the run in Outer Neutral Space. Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande and Major Trace Thakur are determined to use neutral territory to broker a peace between humanity's warring factions, away from Fleet's...

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  Renegade
  

  • Aug-2016
  • / Space Opera
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  The Spiral Wars - 1
  

  One thousand years after Earth was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, humanity has emerged victorious from a series of terrible wars to assure its place in the galaxy. But during celebrations on humanity’s new homeworld, the legendary Captain Panti...

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  Kantovan Vault
  

  • Mar-2017
  • / Science Fiction
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  The Spiral Wars - 3
  

  The UFS Phoenix is on a mission to find a lost data-core that may contain the secret to defeating the alo-deepynine alliance. But the means to find the data-core is hidden deep in tavalai space, in a highest-security vault where the tavalai's manipul...

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  Defiance
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Space Opera
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  The Spiral Wars - 4
  

  The UFS Phoenix is hunting for the long-lost drysine data-core. Within it lie the secrets to saving humanity from the resurgent deepynine machine-race. To recover it, Captain Erik Debogande must work together with the man who holds his sister hostage...

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  Croma Venture
  

  • Aug-2018
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  The Spiral Wars - 5
  

  Upon the ancient drysine moon/city of Defiance, the UFS Phoenix is being rebuilt, but her crew cannot do so in peace. Parren factions jostle for control of not only Defiance, but of the drysine data-core that Phoenix won at such an awful price. Bu...

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  Rando Splicer
  

  • Aug-2019
  • / Science Fiction
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  The Spiral Wars - 6
  

  Separated from her ship, Major Trace Thakur is stranded on the reeh-occupied world of Rando. The native corbi have suffered beneath reeh tyranny for 800 years, and many have given up hope. But Trace needs the data stored in the reeh's genetic tech...

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  Qalea Drop
  

  • Mar-2021
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  The Spiral Wars - 7
  

  The UFS Phoenix embarks on a dangerous quest for the AI Ceephay Queen who rules at the heart of the Reeh Empire. For cover, Phoenix will use the enormous war being launched by the new rulers of the croma, Croma'Dokran, into reeh space. This war is in...

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  Ceephay Queen
  

  • May-2022
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  Deep within hostile Reeh Empire space, the UFS Phoenix is hunting another AI queen. This one is named Chion, and she has been installed at the heart of Reeh Empire power, enslaved against her will, for the past 8,000 years. Within her vast knowledge ...

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  Angelina
  

  • May-2023
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  In a world of magic and modernity, fates are about to collide.Angelina Donati has come to New York to kill a man. She holds the magician Eli Leventhal responsible for killing her friend, and as the gifted problem child of a House of magical assassins...

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