Rangers, mercenaries, mages, and spies. All in this week’s new releases.

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Attack From the Dark (Dark Angel Merchant Marines #1) – Michael Anderle

Daria was not having a good day, even before she found herself locked up.

Betrayed by her brothers-in-arms, Daria barely escaped being killed in the fallout. Without a friend in the galaxy, she finds herself dragged away for something those treacherous bastards did.

Help is coming, just not the kind Daria was expecting. A dapper gent she’s never met blasting the doors off her cell pulls Daria deeper into the rabbit hole. She must decide whether to fight the charges against her or make a run for her life with her rescuer.

Still, any port in a storm. For the down-on-her-luck merc and the gentleman smuggler whose hopes rest on her, the winds are a-blowing.

Daria comes on board with the motley crew of the Atlanta. Neither she nor Lombe has a clue what lies around the next bend, but fortune favors the bold, right?

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Cloak of Iron (Cloak Mage #5) – Jonathan Moeller

A lost magical treasure might unleash catastrophic destruction.

My name’s Nadia, and I’m the shadow agent of the High Queen of the Elves.

When an Elven lord is assassinated with a bullet forged from magical iron, the High Queen sends me to track down the source.

But the bullet is just a small part of a much larger hoard.

And to claim that hoard, the enemies of humanity and the Elves will wipe out anyone who stands in their path.

Starting with me…

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Deep Sleep (Devin Gray #1) -Steven Konkoly

Countersurveillance expert Devin Gray is unwittingly thrown headfirst into dangerous new territory after the death of his mother. Helen Gray, a paranoid and disgraced former CIA officer, believed she was on the verge of preventing a national catastrophe—a mission worth dying for. Others, including Devin, believe she was chasing delusions. Until he finds what she left behind.

With the help of longtime friend and former Marine helicopter pilot Marnie Young and a loyal team of covert operatives Helen summoned just before her death, Devin is propelled into a high-stakes chase across the country. What he uncovers, clue by clue, is a conspiracy more widespread and insidious than anyone could have imagined.

Now it’s Devin’s mission to destroy a covert network poised to deliver a fatal blow to the future of the United States. And also to vindicate his mother, by seeing the mission through to its treacherous end.

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Wayward Galaxy 4 – J. N. Chaney and Jason Anspach

F-F-Fourth times the ch-charm!

The Rangers and Osay colonists have won the fight for control of their corner of Amir. But as the threat of invasion from nearby RUPAC special forces loom, Reach, Alexa, and Brody seek to make newfound neighbors into allies.

But friendship isn’t easy to come by, even on a planet as hostile to humans as Amir.

Even inside the Ranger-protected confines of the O-C, tensions boil over as Liana works to find a way to make Ranger, Osay, and RUPAC defectors coexist and save their hostility for what lays outside the colony’s growing walls.

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Without Mercy (The Pike Chronicles #12) – G. P. Hudson

A bold new quest,
An ancient evil,
A shaky alliance,
The gift of sight,

Jon Pike sets off on a mission to a long-forgotten planet to find an ancient artifact that might help humanity against the waking Maeficus. At the same time, he needs to take measures to counter the rise of a new, increasingly aggressive Diakan Empire and prevent the galactic war that Jamie foresaw.

Will he succeed, or will the galaxy again be engulfed in total war?

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You Pay; We Slay (Hit World #6) – edited by William Alan Webb and Larry Hoy

Want somebody dead?

If you do, the solution’s easy. Hire LifeEnders, Inc. You pay. We slay.

Whether you know it or not—whether you believe it or not—the world is a dangerous place full of criminals, terrorists, monsters, sorcerers, extra-terrestrials, inter-dimensional predators, and embarrassing relatives. And, for the right price, they can all go away.

Twenty years ago, LifeEnders became the first legal corporation of assassins to operate on U.S. soil. Today, LEI has a hit man in every state and many foreign nations. Getting rid of the scammer who catfished Grandma only requires the requisite credit line, and porch thieves now think twice if a security camera might identify them. You pay; we slay. No questions asked.

But it’s not just about putting a target in the cross-hairs. Sometimes the job requires ‘Special Skills,’ and that costs extra. If a giant orange rhinoceros appears in the sky? Call LEI and let the Special Activities Division handle it…and don’t forget your credit card.