The Kinsmen Universe

<p><strong style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED</strong><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>**This is an anthology edition of the Kinsmen Universe which includes SILENT BLADE SILVER SHARK plus a new short story and three original illustrations.**</em></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet. </em></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>In a distant future world Kinsmen-small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families-control vast financial empires. They are their own country their own rulers and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody full-contact sport:  in business on the battlefield...and sometimes in the bedroom.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>Silent Blade</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>Old hatreds die hard. Old love dies harder.</span><em style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)> </em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>On the planet Rada Meli Galdes' family is of minor rank and were relying on her marriage to Celino the razor-smart ruthless leader of the powerful Carvanna empire. When he abruptly breaks their engagement he ruins her family and guarantees that Meli will never marry as no suitor will oppose the rich and influential Carvannas.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>But Meli has a rare secret lethal-and valuable-talent. As a melder of energy she's capable of severing anything in her path. So she 'leaves' her family and trains to become one of the best and most lethal of assassins all the while covertly guarding her family's interests. Now she's ready to quit; but she has one more assignment.</span><em style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)> </em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>To kill the man who ruined her life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>Silver Shark</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>Claire Shannon is a killer...and her weapon is her mind.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>Born on a planet torn by war for over 300 years Claire is a soldier: a psycher with the ability to read control and destroy the minds of enemy psychers and to infiltrate the biological network where they battle to death.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>When Claire's faction loses the war she barely escapes extermination from both sides as her talent brands her as too dangerous to society.  By so-deeply burying her ability that she avoids detection Claire is instead deported to Rada as a refugee where she must find work to remain. She finds a job as personal assistant to Venturo Escana a premiere kinsman; one of Rada's most wealthy entrepreneurs-and most powerful psychers.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>She thought she had left war behind but now she must hide her skills and her growing feelings from Venturo...and this battle might just cost her everything...</span><em style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)> </em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>A Mere Formality</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(47 47 47 1)>The leader of the fierce Reigh people expires during an intergalactic summit putting 30 million colonists' lives and livelihoods in jeopardy. When the new heir to the Reigh throne Lord Nagrad demands restitution the phrase 'a life for a life turns the intergalactic calamity into an arranged marriage contract between Lord Nagrad and sharply intelligent diplomatic analyst Deirdre Lebed... and the negotiation of terms becomes anything but formal!</span></p>