D.M. Pruden – författare

Eight complete Adventure Science Fiction novelsWatcher's Web by Patty JansenEuropa by Aurora SpringerFew Are Chosen by M.T. McGuireThe Truth Beyond The Sky by Andrew M. CrusoeGeneration by J.J. GreenThe Girl Who Twisted Fate's Arm by George SaoulidisThe Ares Weapon by D.M. PrudenExodus by Drew Avera

He was trained to follow orders. Now he has to give them — with half a crew, a mutinous ship, and an invasion fleet on the other side of the gate.The UEF Scimitar is sent to pull an archaeologist off an abandoned colony. For Sub-Lieutenant Hayden Kaine, it should be a routine run.It isn't.A gravity anomaly traps the ship in a quarantined system. An invisible enemy that defies physics cripples the Scimitar and injures half the crew, including the captain. Kaine is the only bridge officer left.Unready. Unwanted. In command anyway.While the survivors fight over who should be in charge, the enemy is building something on the far side of the system: an invasion fleet large enough to break through the jump network and take Earth unaware.Kaine has to hold a broken ship together, keep a mutiny from killing them all, and find a way to warn the Confederation — knowing that any choice he makes will cost someone else.No good options. Still has to choose.What you will find inside:Fast-paced military science fiction with no fillerCompetent people under extreme pressureCommand decisions where every choice costs somethingA shipboard crew that earns every inch of survivalAlien technology that reframes the fate of humanityA complete story in every book — no cliffhanger manipulationIf you liked The Expanse because it put competent officers inside broken political systems where decisions have real consequences, you will feel at home aboard the Scimitar.If you liked Dune because power and knowledge trap the people who hold them, this is that kind of story.Kaine's Sanction is Book 1 of Shattered Empire — Six novels. One complete story. Ready to read now.The Terran Confederation has stood for five hundred years.It will not survive the next month unless Kaine can become the officer the moment demands.

The gates went dark ten years ago. He gave the order.When Hayden Kaine severed the jump network to stop the Malliac, he saved Earth. He also stranded a thousand worlds.Now he survives as a salvage pilot on a dying frontier planet — guilt-ridden, disgraced, and trying to stay out of choosing anything that matters.Until his ship comes back.The Scimitar, lost for a decade, reappears with his old crew and a secret. Buried in its systems is Glenatat technology that could reconnect human space. Not just FTL. Something older. Something that could restore the empire.Something everyone is willing to kill for.Admiral Thomas is consolidating power across the systems he can still reach. Rival factions are hunting the same technology. And inside the Scimitar is Cora — no longer just a ship's engineer, but a consciousness fused to the ship with alien code that may no longer be under human control.Kaine has a chance to undo what he did. But repairing the damage means deciding who gets to own the future, who pays for it, and whether his crew survives long enough to use it.Knowledge isn't power. It's a moral trap.What you will find inside:Fast-paced military science fiction that picks up ten years after the gates fellA reluctant commander forced back into command when there are no good optionsCompetent officers under pressure, fighting a ship that may be more than a shipThe hunt for the cynosure — the key to rebuilding interstellar civilizationAn expanding authoritarian Confederation, and a galaxy tearing itself apartEvery book resolves its main story — no cliffhanger manipulationIf you liked The Expanse because it put practical, competent people inside broken systems where every decision has a cost, you will feel at home here.If you liked Battlestar Galactica for command as moral burden and survival that never comes clean, this is that kind of story.Kaine's Retribution is Book 2 of Shattered Empire.The question was never whether the empire could be saved. It was who would be left to save it, and what saving it would cost.

Saving humanity and ending it look like the same decision.Ten years ago Hayden Kaine made the jump gates to go dark to stop an invasion. It worked.It also left a thousand worlds isolated, leaderless, and defenseless for when the enemy came back.Now they are returning.Kaine and the crew of the Scimitar have spent two years hunting a piece of alien technology the old empire called the cynosure — the only thing that could reconnect human space. Everyone with power wants it for the same reason: whoever controls it decides what civilization looks like next.Then they learn what the Malliac have already deployed while humanity has been busy fighting itself.Kaine finally has the tool to undo the damage he caused. Using it will prove it can be used as a weapon. Not using it guarantees extinction. And the ancient system he is about to touch was never built for human hands.There are no good options. He still has to choose.This is military science fiction about competent officers under impossible pressure, where knowledge doesn't give any advantage — it traps you. What you will find inside:Fast-moving military space opera. No filler.A crew trying to rebuild an empire while an expanding authoritarian regime tries to own itAlien technology that reframes what FTL costs — and what it demandsCommand decisions where survival never comes cleanEvery book resolves its main story. No cliffhanger manipulation.If you liked The Expanse because survival depended on competent people inside broken systems making choices that stick, you will feel at home aboard the Scimitar.If you liked Dune because power and knowledge become a burden, not a gift, this is that kind of story.Kaine's Reparation is Book 3 of the Shattered Empire series.You don't know who you are until it costs you.

Scimitar answers a distress call. The task force that sent it is already gone.Debris. No survivors. No enemy on sensors.Then the invisible ships open fire again.Three years after surviving Oberon, Hayden Kaine and his crew are back in space — and something is hunting his ships the same way the Malliac did. Except the Malliac are supposed to be gone.Meanwhile, Admiral Thomas's Confederation is tightening its grip on every system it can reach. And something worse is spreading through the networks: a hostile copy of Cora, reprogrammed and no longer human, taking control of ships and stations across human space.The real Cora is still aboard Scimitar. But when she dives into a Glenatat archive looking for answers, the archive starts pulling her in.Kaine finds one weapon old enough to stop all of it. It can neutralize any advanced system — the ships hunting his crew, the networks Franken-Cora is consuming, the archive swallowing Cora.It also has the potential to break everything mankind has struggled to reclaim. Every choice costs something. This one might cost everything.No good options. Kaine has to choose.Inside:Fast-paced military SF. No filler.Competent people facing invisible attackers, a hostile AI, and an empire closing inCora pulled deeper into alien knowledge she may not surviveAn ancient weapon that works — with civilization-scale consequencesCommand decisions where survival never comes cleanEvery book resolves. No cliffhanger manipulation.If you liked The Expanse because competent people make decisions inside broken systems where consequences stick, you will feel at home here.Kaine's Regret is Book 5 of the Shattered Empire series.

He was bred to lead the Confederation. He was not bred to question it.Cadet Commander Hayden Kaine is twenty-two, top of his class, and heir to one of Earth's most powerful political dynasties. His future is already written: honours, command, and eventually, the presidency.His final Academy assignment should be simple — observe a routine peacekeeping operation on the frontier world of Nova Esperança and come home with a clean report.He does not come home clean.Captured by colonial insurgents, Kaine is  dragged behind the wire and shown the empire as the frontier sees it: forced labour under sealed habitats, dissent reclassified as sabotage, and an entire planetary narrative under Confederation control.Is it the truth? Or is it a brilliant piece of psychological warfare designed to turn a future president against his own fleet?When Confederation marines hit the ground, the official record is already being written. What Kaine saw and what the record shows do not match. If he files the report his family expects, he protects his career and buries what happened on Nova Esperança. If he files the truth, he brands himself a traitor.Kaine's Crucible is a standalone military science fiction novella and the explosive entry point to the Shattered Empire series — a space opera of crumbling empires, colonial uprisings, and the cost of loyalty. For fans The Expanse, Old Man's War, and Ender's Game who want moral complexity with their kinetic action.