Pike leaned back in his seat on the flight deck of the Broadhead II, having listened to the entire exchange between his boss and the CENTCOM Chief of Staff. After a moment’s hesitation, he reached over and deleted the message he’d been composing to be sent from an anonymous message account to a friendly source in the media he’d used before. He would give Wellington the benefit of the doubt that he meant what he’d just said … for now.

Thank you for reading New Frontiers,

Thank you for reading New Frontiers,

Book One of the Expansion Wars Trilogy.

The story will continue with Book Two:

Iron & Blood

Due in winter of 2016

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Thanks for reading the newest installment of what we’re loosely calling the “Black Fleet Universe.” For those starting with this book: welcome. As has been talked about after the last book in the original trilogy I had wanted to write a book centered on Celesta Wright. In fact, my original plan was to leave Jackson Wolfe out of this book altogether but I knew I wanted to bring him back in future books in some capacity so I filled in a bit of his backstory to explain what he’s been doing since leaving the military.

The story was a bit of a challenge to flesh out from its original outline for a couple reasons. I wanted these books to become a bit more focused and on a smaller scale and by “Counterstrike” I was seeing things creep towards having too many moving parts to be able to deliver a novel with a concise plot. If every book deals with the absolute survival of the entire species I feel like it diminishes the drama of the series as a whole and takes away from all the individual storylines. So for this book I tried to zoom in on only a few key aspects of what might happen after something as traumatic as the Phage War if another group of aliens popped up.

At this point I see no harm in talking about a few things that will, or will not happen, in the second two books of this trilogy. First, the Phage will NOT be coming back other than as the tangential storyline introduced in this book. That particular entity was killed and I won’t be bringing it back to life in future books. Second, Wolfe will play a more pivotal role in the next two books, which was something I had planned already but my beta readers specifically asked. Thanks again for continuing on with this series. I plan on releasing “Iron & Blood” net before getting back to work on Omega Force 9.

Cheers!

Josh