Mary Christmas was the daughter of an ambitious politician — one who was also a crime boss. He bought himself a genetically-engineered daughter. Then he paid to have her cybernetically enhanced with largely illegal components. When you got right down to it, he didn’t want a daughter. He wanted an assassin. He got what he paid for.

Mantis Rising explores the story of Mary Christmas as we discover what happens when a really, totally pissed off assassin is set loose on an unsuspecting galaxy.

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Mantis Rising (Book 1) Her girlfriend dead, MC Jones takes a ship that is as beautiful and deadly as she is, embarking on a quest to kill evil people in the galaxy. She knows she’ll never get all of them but she needed a hobby. She figured it would keep busy while she looked for a computer hacker who could make her ship usable again. She didn’t expect to run into a group of people to be responsible for.

Published May 6th, 2022

Resurrection (Book 2) Available Summer 2022 or sooner. MC Jones never planned to command a ship and a crew. Now she finds herself with a ship that just might be undefeatable, assuming it keeps working, and a crew that needs her more than she needs them. She can’t stand still. While she would be the last one to claim she is a do-gooder, people need her. Some of them, she even cares about.

Published July 15th, 2022

Retribution (Book 3) Available in early 2023 or sooner. She had been trained as an assassin. Now she’s in the business of saving people — sometimes from themselves. At the end of book 2, she learned that the most evil man she ever knew — her father — might possibly still be alive. That really sucked.


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