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About Dale Ivan Smith
A life-long resident of the beautiful Pacific Northwest, Dale Ivan Smith has his mother to thank for his love of science fiction and fantasy. When he was five, he glimpsed the cover of a paperback sci-fi novel she was reading and was immediately interested. (It had a giant radioactive spider on the cover.) When he was fifteen, she loaned him her collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom novels and he devoured them in short order.
He got into trouble in grade school for sneaking off to the library during class, so naturally he wound up working as a librarian for the Multnomah County Library system in Portland, Oregon.
He's been writing fiction since he was a kid. He's had stories published in Perihelion Science Fiction, Everyday Fiction, 10Flash Quarterly, and on the Toasted Cake podcast. The Empowered is his first novel series, beginning with Empowered: Agent.
When he isn't writing or reading fantasy and science fiction, he's playing board games, practicing yoga, and obeying his feline overlords.
He got into trouble in grade school for sneaking off to the library during class, so naturally he wound up working as a librarian for the Multnomah County Library system in Portland, Oregon.
He's been writing fiction since he was a kid. He's had stories published in Perihelion Science Fiction, Everyday Fiction, 10Flash Quarterly, and on the Toasted Cake podcast. The Empowered is his first novel series, beginning with Empowered: Agent.
When he isn't writing or reading fantasy and science fiction, he's playing board games, practicing yoga, and obeying his feline overlords.
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Blog postFour years ago today I published Empowered: Agent, the first novel in the Empowered series. In honor of that, I’ve written a flash fiction story which takes place when Mathilda Brandt is still in Special Corrections, nearly three years after the event of “Nullified.” *** The World Outside Copyright 2021 Dale Ivan Smith Rain poppeds2 months ago Read more
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Blog postNine years ago an image came to me–a young woman, discharged from a prison for super-criminals, trying to start a new life, and being approached by those who wanted her to use her superpower and return to her own life. That was the start of Mathilda Brandt’s story. She was once a rogue Empowered, nick-nameds11 months ago Read more
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Blog post“Don’t panic” is advice from a favorite book of mine, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and applies doubly so right now, in the midst of the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic. We have to be patient, as we stay-at-home, and vigilant. Those who have to go outside to work are all heroes, especially the healthcares1 year ago Read more
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Blog postWay back in October 2009, I learned about a new online magazine, Ten Flash Quarterly, which had quarterly themed issues. The one for Winter 2010 was an encounter at a lonely crossroads at dusk. As soon as I read the theme, my subconscious created a story, “Dead Wife Waiting.” The editor, K.C. Ball, loved its1 year ago Read more
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Blog postThis year’s Halloween story is another “prequel” of sorts about Elizabeth Marquez, hero of my series Agents of Sorcery. It shows what happens when a grown-up dressed as a witch visited then sixteen-year old Elizabeth Marquez on Halloween. It also reveals an important episode from Liz’s life that took place earlier that year as well.s1 year ago Read more
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Blog postThis little story takes place well before the events of the prequel story “Siloed,” back when Marquez had only been a sorcerer-agent for a year or so, and was working with her first partner, Tomlinson. Hope you enjoy it. As always, let me know what you think. The garden gnome stood frozen on the tables2 years ago Read more
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Blog postMy new urban fantasy series, Agents of Sorcery, begins with Gremlin Night, which is now available. Liz Marquez is a sorcerer-agent belonging to a secret organization responsible for enforcing the laws of magic, the Regulating Union for Normalizing Enchantment. She spent time assigned as a guard in the Silos, a magical prison for supernatural creaturess2 years ago Read more
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Blog postI’m currently working on Empowered: Hero, the final novel in Mat’s story, and one thing that she is concerned about from the start is what happened to the sister she left behind, Ella’s twin, Ava. Ava, who was there for Ruth when no one else was. Well, I’ve written a flash fiction story set durings2 years ago Read more
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Blog postLast year when I published Empowered: Rebel, I’d posted here that the series was complete. Done. How wrong I was. I’d always known there was more to Mathilda’s story, and had considered writing another book after Rebel. Now I realize a fifth book is not only important to the series, it’s absolutely necessary. Rebel endeds2 years ago Read more
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Blog postHere’s a new Halloween story, a prequel to my new series, when Liz was working with her first partner. Neither of them have the Halloween spirit. Halloween Duty Dale Ivan Smith I’m Elizabeth Marquez, Sorcerer-Agent for R.U.N.E. I used to love Halloween, but after my sister and I discovered real magic and itss2 years ago Read more
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Shadow Magic: Six Strong Heroines of Urban Fantasy
Feb 11, 2020
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Dive into six full-length urban fantasy novels by USA Today and national bestselling authors!
Escape into tales of shifters and sorceresses, gamers and bakers, demons and artifact hunters, plus one very mischievous Norse god. Full of adventure, mystery, romance, and plenty of snark, these novels will immerse you in magical worlds while you turn pages far into the night.
Huntress Born by Aimee Easterling - Werewolf and baker Ember leaves her pack to hunt for her missing half brother. But with danger growing on all sides, it's only a matter of time before she gets burned. By an author described as a "good choice for Patricia Briggs fans."
Beyond the Veil by Pippa DaCosta - Half-demon and half-human, Muse tried to lead an ordinary life. But when an underworld assassin comes after her, she must embrace her powers—and make a formidable deal with the Prince of Greed.
Justice Calling by Annie Bellet - Between hiding out from her evil ex-boyfriend who wants to steal her power and keeping her friends safe from dangerous magics, Jade Crow has all the problems. For fans of The Dresden Files and the Iron Druid, this is a nerdy urban fantasy full of snark and fireballs.
Getting Wilde by Jenn Stark - Tarot-reading artifact hunter Sara Wilde can find anything, for a price. Then a wickedly sexy magician offers her the ultimate challenge: Sneak behind Vatican walls...and steal the Devil himself. Globe-trotting, fast-paced, high-stakes adventure perfect for fans of Darynda Jones, Faith Hunter, and Ilona Andrews!
Wolves by C. Gockel - When Amy prays for help, Loki the Norse God of mischief and Chaos isn't the savior she has in mind. Loki can't resist Amy's summons, but he can insist that she help him outwit Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms. The start of an epic urban fantasy with myth, magic, and mayhem!
Empowered: Agent by Dale Ivan Smith - The world says those possessing superpowers are either heroes or villains. But what if you're both? Former rogue empowered Mathilda Brandt must return to villainy in order to save her family and thousands of others from a psychotic criminal mastermind.
Escape into tales of shifters and sorceresses, gamers and bakers, demons and artifact hunters, plus one very mischievous Norse god. Full of adventure, mystery, romance, and plenty of snark, these novels will immerse you in magical worlds while you turn pages far into the night.
Huntress Born by Aimee Easterling - Werewolf and baker Ember leaves her pack to hunt for her missing half brother. But with danger growing on all sides, it's only a matter of time before she gets burned. By an author described as a "good choice for Patricia Briggs fans."
Beyond the Veil by Pippa DaCosta - Half-demon and half-human, Muse tried to lead an ordinary life. But when an underworld assassin comes after her, she must embrace her powers—and make a formidable deal with the Prince of Greed.
Justice Calling by Annie Bellet - Between hiding out from her evil ex-boyfriend who wants to steal her power and keeping her friends safe from dangerous magics, Jade Crow has all the problems. For fans of The Dresden Files and the Iron Druid, this is a nerdy urban fantasy full of snark and fireballs.
Getting Wilde by Jenn Stark - Tarot-reading artifact hunter Sara Wilde can find anything, for a price. Then a wickedly sexy magician offers her the ultimate challenge: Sneak behind Vatican walls...and steal the Devil himself. Globe-trotting, fast-paced, high-stakes adventure perfect for fans of Darynda Jones, Faith Hunter, and Ilona Andrews!
Wolves by C. Gockel - When Amy prays for help, Loki the Norse God of mischief and Chaos isn't the savior she has in mind. Loki can't resist Amy's summons, but he can insist that she help him outwit Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms. The start of an epic urban fantasy with myth, magic, and mayhem!
Empowered: Agent by Dale Ivan Smith - The world says those possessing superpowers are either heroes or villains. But what if you're both? Former rogue empowered Mathilda Brandt must return to villainy in order to save her family and thousands of others from a psychotic criminal mastermind.
Empowered: Agent (The Empowered Series Book 1)
Jan 31, 2017
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The world says those possessing superpowers are either heroes or villains. But what if you’re both?
Mathilda Brandt isn’t the angry, out-of-control teenager she was before she got out of jail. She’s hungry for a chance at a normal life, but when a gang threatens her sisters, she has no choice but to use her illegal superpower to protect them.
A secretive government agency gives her a choice: go back to prison for life, or infiltrate a notorious super-villain group in order to stop a psychotic Empowered.
To save her city, her family, and herself, Mat must become the last thing she ever wanted to be again: a criminal.
Mathilda Brandt isn’t the angry, out-of-control teenager she was before she got out of jail. She’s hungry for a chance at a normal life, but when a gang threatens her sisters, she has no choice but to use her illegal superpower to protect them.
A secretive government agency gives her a choice: go back to prison for life, or infiltrate a notorious super-villain group in order to stop a psychotic Empowered.
To save her city, her family, and herself, Mat must become the last thing she ever wanted to be again: a criminal.
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Empowered: Traitor (The Empowered Series Book 2)
Mar 21, 2017
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How far would you go with your powers in order to protect innocents?
Mathilda Brandt is one of the Empowered, humans who possess extraordinary abilities. In order to help her family, especially her dying grandmother, Mat agreed to work for a secretive government agency and infiltrate the Scourge, the world’s most notorious Empowered criminal organization.
Now she leads a cell inside the Scourge. Her agency bosses want her to risk all to reach the inner circle, in order to set up the Scourge’s destruction. But, when her cell uncovers man-made biological horrors created by a global corporation at the cost of innocent lives, Mat vows to put an end to the monstrous creations threatening the world.
No matter what the cost.
Mathilda Brandt is one of the Empowered, humans who possess extraordinary abilities. In order to help her family, especially her dying grandmother, Mat agreed to work for a secretive government agency and infiltrate the Scourge, the world’s most notorious Empowered criminal organization.
Now she leads a cell inside the Scourge. Her agency bosses want her to risk all to reach the inner circle, in order to set up the Scourge’s destruction. But, when her cell uncovers man-made biological horrors created by a global corporation at the cost of innocent lives, Mat vows to put an end to the monstrous creations threatening the world.
No matter what the cost.
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Empowered: Rebel (The Empowered Series Book 4)
Jun 20, 2018
$2.99
What do you do when a conspiracy suppresses super powers?
Mathilda Brandt fights to keep her fellow Empowered friends and the Imbued refugees from Sanctuary alive and safe. Environmental disasters are ravaging the world. Her former master, the secretive government agency known as Support, hunts her and the other rogue Empowered and Imbued across the world, seeking to capture or kill them. Only the strange Dark-Net, an extra-dimensional road, keeps Mat and her friends free.
Mat is also desperate to find her mother, who until a few months ago Mat thought was dead. Her mother’s fate is somehow intertwined with the people hunting her, and Mat wants to learn how.
When the Dark-Net begins to fail, Mat realizes she’ll have to do the last thing she ever wanted to do: lead a desperate rebellion to save her mother and free the world.
The Empowered series reading order
Book 0 Renegade
Book 1 Empowered: Agent
Book 2 Empowered: Traitor
Book 3 Empowered: Outlaw
Book 4 Empowered: Rebel
Mathilda Brandt fights to keep her fellow Empowered friends and the Imbued refugees from Sanctuary alive and safe. Environmental disasters are ravaging the world. Her former master, the secretive government agency known as Support, hunts her and the other rogue Empowered and Imbued across the world, seeking to capture or kill them. Only the strange Dark-Net, an extra-dimensional road, keeps Mat and her friends free.
Mat is also desperate to find her mother, who until a few months ago Mat thought was dead. Her mother’s fate is somehow intertwined with the people hunting her, and Mat wants to learn how.
When the Dark-Net begins to fail, Mat realizes she’ll have to do the last thing she ever wanted to do: lead a desperate rebellion to save her mother and free the world.
The Empowered series reading order
Book 0 Renegade
Book 1 Empowered: Agent
Book 2 Empowered: Traitor
Book 3 Empowered: Outlaw
Book 4 Empowered: Rebel
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Empowered: Outlaw (The Empowered Series Book 3)
Nov 20, 2017
$2.99
The world believes only a few can possess superpowers, but what if that’s a lie?
Mathilda Brandt, one of the rare Empowered, has just learned her missing sister is also one. Even more shocking, Mat’s sister belongs to a hidden cult that believes anyone can possess a superpower, in defiance of everything known about the Empowered. If the authorities discover the cult’s whereabouts, they will destroy it and imprison its members.
Mat must find her sister first, but learning her secrets could tear their family apart, and shatter the world forever.
Empowered: Outlaw is the third novel in The Empowered series.
The Empowered series reading order :
Book 0 Renegade
Book 1 Empowered: Agent
Book 2 Empowered: Traitor
Book 3 Empowered: Outlaw
Book 4 Empowered: Rebel (coming February 2018)
Mathilda Brandt, one of the rare Empowered, has just learned her missing sister is also one. Even more shocking, Mat’s sister belongs to a hidden cult that believes anyone can possess a superpower, in defiance of everything known about the Empowered. If the authorities discover the cult’s whereabouts, they will destroy it and imprison its members.
Mat must find her sister first, but learning her secrets could tear their family apart, and shatter the world forever.
Empowered: Outlaw is the third novel in The Empowered series.
The Empowered series reading order :
Book 0 Renegade
Book 1 Empowered: Agent
Book 2 Empowered: Traitor
Book 3 Empowered: Outlaw
Book 4 Empowered: Rebel (coming February 2018)
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Empowered: Hero (The Empowered Series Book 5)
May 22, 2020
$3.99
What happens when millions of people suddenly possess superpowers?
Mathilda Brandt thought she’d protected her family and freed the world, instead she’s unleashed forces that threaten to destroy both. She rescued her Empowered mother from RAMPART, but now her mother wants Mat to choose sides– Empowered over normal humans.
Her sister Ava is missing. Governments begin rounding up the newly Empowered, while other Empowered want to end the threat from normals once and for all.
With her own power suddenly erratic, and her connection to Gaia in jeopardy, how can Mat save those she loves and prevent the world from destroying itself?
Empowered: Hero is the fifth and final book in Dale Ivan Smith’s The Empowered series.
Mathilda Brandt thought she’d protected her family and freed the world, instead she’s unleashed forces that threaten to destroy both. She rescued her Empowered mother from RAMPART, but now her mother wants Mat to choose sides– Empowered over normal humans.
Her sister Ava is missing. Governments begin rounding up the newly Empowered, while other Empowered want to end the threat from normals once and for all.
With her own power suddenly erratic, and her connection to Gaia in jeopardy, how can Mat save those she loves and prevent the world from destroying itself?
Empowered: Hero is the fifth and final book in Dale Ivan Smith’s The Empowered series.
Street Spells: Seven Urban Fantasy Shorts
Jul 11, 2018
by
Aimee Easterling
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Tori Centanni
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Rachel Medhurst
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Dale Ivan Smith
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Becca Andre
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N. R. Hairston
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Kat Cotton
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Magic stalks modern streets.
Werewolves and witches. Demons and elves. Street Spells compiles seven new and exclusive short stories featuring mythical beings hidden in plain sight.
Aimee Easterling: "Scapegoat"
Tori Centanni: "Dead Goblins and Overdue Rent"
Rachel Medhurst: "Magically Hidden"
Dale Ivan Smith: "Siloed"
Becca Andre: "Alchemy and Destiny"
N. R. Hairston: "Dirty Magic"
Kat Cotton: "Run Away"
Break out of jail, hunt down magical art thieves, and dabble in alchemy as you discover a new author (or seven) in this page-turning collection of paranormal shorts.
Werewolves and witches. Demons and elves. Street Spells compiles seven new and exclusive short stories featuring mythical beings hidden in plain sight.
Aimee Easterling: "Scapegoat"
Tori Centanni: "Dead Goblins and Overdue Rent"
Rachel Medhurst: "Magically Hidden"
Dale Ivan Smith: "Siloed"
Becca Andre: "Alchemy and Destiny"
N. R. Hairston: "Dirty Magic"
Kat Cotton: "Run Away"
Break out of jail, hunt down magical art thieves, and dabble in alchemy as you discover a new author (or seven) in this page-turning collection of paranormal shorts.
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Renegade: The Empowered Series Prequel
Feb 8, 2017
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How far would you go to protect your superpower?
Sixteen-year old Mathilda Brandt just discovered hers: the ability to hear, control and even kill plant life. She will face a stark choice if and when the world learns about her new ability. Either she will have to put on the blue jumpsuit and become an officially sanctioned Empowered member of the Hero Council and follow any and all orders, or instead forswear ever using her power for any reason. Mat decides to keep her power a secret, but then she meets “rogue” Empowered people like herself who are creating a hidden sanctuary. She finally has a place where she can belong and use her power freely.
But if she wants a place to belong, first she must fight to save it.
Renegade is the prequel to the Empowered series.
Sixteen-year old Mathilda Brandt just discovered hers: the ability to hear, control and even kill plant life. She will face a stark choice if and when the world learns about her new ability. Either she will have to put on the blue jumpsuit and become an officially sanctioned Empowered member of the Hero Council and follow any and all orders, or instead forswear ever using her power for any reason. Mat decides to keep her power a secret, but then she meets “rogue” Empowered people like herself who are creating a hidden sanctuary. She finally has a place where she can belong and use her power freely.
But if she wants a place to belong, first she must fight to save it.
Renegade is the prequel to the Empowered series.
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The Empowered Series Collection, Books 1-3
Jan 28, 2018
$6.99
Mathilda Brandt is one of the Empowered: men and women who possess extraordinary abilities that set them apart from the rest of humanity. The rare few who do become Empowered face a stark choice. They must either join the Hero Council, following any and all orders in the service of protecting humanity, or forswear ever using their power.
Mathilda rejected that choice and went rogue, joining a hidden community of other rogue Empowered. Captured by the authorities, she was sent to prison.
Five years later, she’s been paroled and just wants to live a normal life. Only the world won’t let her. In order to save her family, she joins a secretive government agency, with orders to infiltrate the world’s most notorious rogue Empowered group.
Mat’s assignment becomes not only a private war to stop deadly Empowered threats to the world, but a quest to uncover the secrets behind those extraordinary abilities.
But will she and the world survive learning the truth?
This collection contains the first three novels in the Empowered series: Empowered: Agent, Empowered: Traitor and Empowered: Outlaw.
Mathilda rejected that choice and went rogue, joining a hidden community of other rogue Empowered. Captured by the authorities, she was sent to prison.
Five years later, she’s been paroled and just wants to live a normal life. Only the world won’t let her. In order to save her family, she joins a secretive government agency, with orders to infiltrate the world’s most notorious rogue Empowered group.
Mat’s assignment becomes not only a private war to stop deadly Empowered threats to the world, but a quest to uncover the secrets behind those extraordinary abilities.
But will she and the world survive learning the truth?
This collection contains the first three novels in the Empowered series: Empowered: Agent, Empowered: Traitor and Empowered: Outlaw.
Gremlin Night (Agents of Sorcery Book 1)
Sep 28, 2019
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The supernatural world is a crazy place, and tonight it’s getting even crazier.
Elizabeth Marquez enforces the magical laws that keep the supernatural hidden. Just transferred from guarding an arcane prison back to a field assignment on the streets of America, Liz will do anything to remain a sorcerer-agent. There’s just the little problem of her supreme impatience with procedures and delays.
Tonight, a gremlin outbreak threatens to wreck her career, and expose magic and magical creatures to the world. On top of that she’s been handed a rookie partner who thinks she’s a loose cannon. Even worse, an old nemesis from a rival magical organization is gunning for her.
One night isn’t a lot of time to stop magical chaos.
Liz is going to need every ounce of impatience she has.
Elizabeth Marquez enforces the magical laws that keep the supernatural hidden. Just transferred from guarding an arcane prison back to a field assignment on the streets of America, Liz will do anything to remain a sorcerer-agent. There’s just the little problem of her supreme impatience with procedures and delays.
Tonight, a gremlin outbreak threatens to wreck her career, and expose magic and magical creatures to the world. On top of that she’s been handed a rookie partner who thinks she’s a loose cannon. Even worse, an old nemesis from a rival magical organization is gunning for her.
One night isn’t a lot of time to stop magical chaos.
Liz is going to need every ounce of impatience she has.
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Spice Crimes: A Fallen Empire Novel
Sep 16, 2018
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What happens when a simple two-part cargo-hauling job with a tight deadline pays too well?
Captain Alisa Marchenko was ready to settle down to a quiet life aboard the Star Nomad hauling cargo with her finance, the cyborg Leonidas, and her daughter and crew.
But, when a layover on Sherran Moon lasts longer than planned, her ship disappears out from under Alisa’s nose.
With only Leonidas and the Starseers Abelardus and Young-Hee to help her, she must find out why the Nomad vanished, what happened to the rest of her crew, why pirates and mafia are ready to kill for her ship, and how a mysterious cargo ties into it all, or else they'll be stranded indefinitely.
Taking place shortly after the events in the novel End Game by Lindsay Buroker, Spice Crimes is a rousing space adventure set in Lindsay Buroker’s exciting Fallen Empire universe.
This novel was originally published as part of the Kindle Worlds program and has been republished with the permission of Fallen Empire author and creator Lindsay Buroker.
Captain Alisa Marchenko was ready to settle down to a quiet life aboard the Star Nomad hauling cargo with her finance, the cyborg Leonidas, and her daughter and crew.
But, when a layover on Sherran Moon lasts longer than planned, her ship disappears out from under Alisa’s nose.
With only Leonidas and the Starseers Abelardus and Young-Hee to help her, she must find out why the Nomad vanished, what happened to the rest of her crew, why pirates and mafia are ready to kill for her ship, and how a mysterious cargo ties into it all, or else they'll be stranded indefinitely.
Taking place shortly after the events in the novel End Game by Lindsay Buroker, Spice Crimes is a rousing space adventure set in Lindsay Buroker’s exciting Fallen Empire universe.
This novel was originally published as part of the Kindle Worlds program and has been republished with the permission of Fallen Empire author and creator Lindsay Buroker.
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