The Chronicles of Kin Roland: 3 Book Omnibus - The Complete Series

by Scott Moon

  Dog grunted. Leaning on his battered riffle, he struggled forward. His thick but lanky arms and broad frame looked like a poorly constructed mock-up of a human scheduled to be built before funding for the project expired. Back hunched, eyes losing focus, he ignored what the others were staring at and descended a trail into dense wilderness. “Jojo left a trail. Probably on purpose. He wouldn’t abandon us here.”

  Dwarf stared, still too angry to talk about their friend’s disappearance during the hardest fighting.

  “I’ll go after him,” Rickson said.

  “We all go or no one goes,” Kin said. He checked his weapons, finding one bullet in one pistol to accompany his sword. “That’s the best way to stay alive on this planet.”

  “LOTTERY or death!” Dog shouted.

  Silence gripped the crowd.

  “Most of you sorry heaps of Reaper dung wouldn’t be able to function away from this planet. The first time you gathered up your urine and feces for reclamation, the residents of a more civilized world would send you to a mental hospital,” he said. “Help me out, Kin.”

  Jojo slipped between Kin and the others with understated intensity controlling his expression. “We could just take the ship and leave everyone. Selecting superior samples of the humanity and those with specialized skills would be the intelligent course of action.”

  Dog turned slowly, a dark sound growing deep in his throat. He stepped toe to toe with Jojo and leaned down. The similarities between his movements and a Reaper about to eat a human face were startling and charged with emotion. “You will leave on the ship. I’m staying here, so give me a list of who you want. Maybe I will consider it.”

  “Only a fraction of these survivors can leave on the ship. Dog Rolston and Dwarf have already told them there will be a lottery for who can go and who must stay behind,” Rebecca said.

  “I have to stay,” Kin said. “You know why.”

  Rebecca grabbed the back of his neck and pressed his forehead to hers. “Droon is dead. Don’t freak out on me.”

  “A dead Reaper is a good Reaper,” Kin said, intending to say more but lacking the energy for real bravado.

  Do not die, Kin-rol-an-da.

  Droon’s words echoed over and over. Kin could not stop thinking about them. A lifetime ago, he had decided to spare the Reapers, hoping to strand them on their home world. Since then, he had learned what they were and that they were created by the very people they now hunted. He thought they would be content to hunt the other monsters on Hellsbreach, though Rebecca reported that a surprisingly large number of Droon’s followers had made it out of Meridian Canyon before the nuclear blast sealed the place forever. Some of Droon’s final thoughts had been about a Reaper Queen named Solaa who wanted Clavender to take her hunting all through the universe.

  Clavender was gone.

  Droon was dead.

  Kin was tired.

  “I will stay for a while. Help the people here survive until you bring back a rescue mission,” Kin said.

  “I tried to rescue you once before, remember?”

  “It worked, mostly,” Kin said, surprising himself with a laugh. “This is the best place for me. I always believed I was the last man on Hellsbreach. This time, I intend to get everyone off or die trying.”

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  Enemy of Man

  (Book One in the Chronicles of Kin Roland)

  Earth Fleet never forgave Kin Roland’s failure at Hellsbreach. Changed by captivity and torture, hunted by the Reapers of Hellsbreach and wanted by the Fleet, Kin hides on a lost planet near an unstable wormhole.

  When a distant space battle propels a ravaged Earth Fleet Armada through the same wormhole, a Reaper follows, hunting for the man who burned his home world. Kin fights to save a mysterious native of Crashdown from the Reaper and learns there are worse things in the galaxy than those hunting him. The end is coming and he is about to pay for a sin that will change the galaxy forever.

  Son of Orlan

  (Book Two in the Chronicles of Kin Roland)

  Kin Roland survived the Battle of Crater Town. He managed to keep his friends alive, although most remained at his side on Crashdown when the safe course would have been to evacuate with Earth Fleet. Kin even found the girl of his dreams.

  Surviving Earth Fleet justice and a Reaper vendetta was only the beginning. Now Kin has real trouble.

  With the Grand Army of the Mazz Empire descending on the planet to destroy ancient enemies and Reapers sweeping across the landscape leaving terror and death in their wake, Kin learns the truth of his supposedly invincible enemies. The largest military expedition in history isn't that of a conquering force. The Mazz are on the run—fleeing extinction and Kin knows desperate enemies are dangerous.

  Kin will find himself in a position no one expected. He'll define humanity with his next choice, or doom them eternally.

  Weapons of Earth

  (Book Three in the Chronicles of Kin Roland)

  With the fate of humanity at stake, there is only one way for the Traitor of Hellsbreach to make things right.

  After a battle that erased people from existence, Kin Roland faces betrayal, intrigue, and the ultimate decision. Reapers, Slomn, and all the deadly monsters of Crashdown have not prepared him for his return to Hellsbreach. He swore to never again set foot on the red wasteland. The truth awaiting him in Blood Meridian Canyon will force him to a desperate alliance. A creature that even the King of the Reapers fears will drive Kin across the Red Plains of Sorrow with the fate of humanity in the balance. There has only ever been one decision for Kin Roland… the right decision.

  Weapons of Earth is the final book in the Chronicles of Kin Roland trilogy, a military science fiction adventure that fans of the movies Aliens and Predator will love. This series is the for anyone who has dreamed of suiting up in a Starship Troopers dropship and assaulting a planet with a band of brothers ready to snatch victory from impossible odds. If you enjoy books by Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, John Steakley, John Ringo, and David Weber then you’ll love this book they inspired.

  Buy the climactic conclusion to the Chronicles of Kin Roland trilogy today!

  Sgt. Orlan: Hero of Man

  (A Short Story)

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  Sergeant Jack Washington Orlan has a specialized skill set and a variable emotional range. He is a man built to dominate his enemies and paint planets red. As the ruthless victor of any engagement, he appreciates sunsets after well fought battles. The graffiti on his Fleet Single Person Assault Armor is equal to the work of a master engraver; his heavy hands create things of awe-inspiring beauty as he growls at loneliness.

  It isn’t easy being the meanest dog in the pack.

  Everything changed and nothing changed after Hellsbreach. The Hero of Man bounty didn’t last long and the Fleet wasted no time aiming him at the next war like a weapon with a pulse.

  Sergeant Orlan, trained in every discipline of personal combat, never expected to be a father.

  There are predictable outcomes for organizations that threaten the son of Orlan. What does it meant to be a hero?

  Orlan has no idea.

  Dragon Badge

  (Son of a Dragonslayer: Book One)

  Michael Prim does what any good cop woul
d do upon discovering a soul reaving sorcerer is hunting on his beat, he goes to war, even as hellhounds and Rashfellen warriors come after him. He gets a little help from his friends — a tough as nails veteran and a zombie like prostitute who holds a soul trapped in a magical jar. At the end, only Michael’s most hated enemy, the gang member who murdered his partner, can stand against Travass Isegurad and his demons, but Michael will have justice no matter the price.

  Dragon Attack

  (Son of a Dragonslayer: Book Two)

  After defeating the demons and hellhounds of Travass Isegurad, Michael Prim races toward another confrontation with the sorcerer. Nicole’s curse drives her into isolation. Her friends fight to save her. The rift between Blue Point and the magic world disintegrates, taking innocent lives during the chaos and releasing deadly creatures into a modern world unprepared for the war to come.

  Die Like A Man

  Behind the badge is an assassin. Behind the assassin is a monster with scars to hell and back.

  Operators like Alistair Rohan never die; they retire and go into law enforcement. It's a pay cut. The hours are bad and he must keep his secrets hidden. Distrustful peers morph his name to Alice and keep a careful distance. It’s not his total lack of fear or his indifference to pain that drives friends away, but little things like how he wears long sleeves in the summer and disappears when off duty. Attention to detail earned him high marks in the academy, but his field-training officer once commented that it seemed like he was always planning a hit, always ready to send bad guys straight to hell without a trial. Can Rohan leave his past behind and live according to the rule of law, or will his meaner side turn vigilante?

  Proof of Death

  (Grendel Uprising: Episode 1)

  The longest journey begins with a single step, or a high-altitude insertion from the extreme upper atmosphere. What could possibly go wrong? Aefel 70391, a proud member of the First Armored-infantry Lightning Division, must find the Emperor’s assassin on a forgotten planet populated by blood thirsty Vikings.

  Once, long ago when wealthy adventure tourists finally admitted they could not travel back in time, the Grendel Corporation purchased planet 0473829 for cheap and populated it with historical reenactment volunteers. Expenses soared. Bankruptcy followed. Technology went dark. The Earth System Commonwealth Military slowly withdrew protection from the economically and strategically insignificant project.

  Seccon 99991, First General and Chief Strongarm of Emperor Dan Uburt-Wesson, disappeared as thoroughly as a myth after committing regicide. A small, but well informed faction of the Earth System Commonwealth Military believe that he has hidden on the primitive — and privately owned — world of Grendel 0473829.

  Seccon must die; this is known.

  What is the killer seeking in the last corner of human explored space?

  Aefel must learn the answer or face permanent exile in the land time pretended to forget.

  Blood Royal

  (Grendel Uprising: Episode 2)

  Loyal servants of the Earth System Commonwealth must pick a side. The assassination of Emperor Dan Uburt-Wesson has thrown civilization into chaos and no interim government will have the strength to hold the galactic empire together. Rumors of betrayal and rebellion spread from star system to star system as the real battle begins in the most unlikely place. Official news sources have confirmed that every member of the Imperial family is dead. The formation of a new galactic order is imminent. The Earth System Commonwealth has outlived its usefulness.

  Only a handful of powerful people know that Aefel 70391, a decorated veteran of the First Armored-infantry Lightning Division, has located four juveniles that will change history. Can Aefel and his unlikely allies protect the Blood Royal? Has he chosen the wrong side?

  Grendel Uprising: Blood Royal sets the stage for a war of rebellion, domination, and what it means to be human in the age of the Earth System Commonwealth.

  The Grendel Uprising series combines science fiction and historical fiction. The setting is at once a world similar to England and Scandinavia during the time of the Danelaw and a pan galactic empire of advanced technology and deadly political upheaval. During a more prosperous time, entrepreneurs developed entire worlds as historical reenactment societies and allowed nature to take its course. Financial disaster took the planet of Grendel completely offline. There are precious few men or women who remember how they came to the alien world. Now they will face the godlike destruction of modern warfare.

  Stadium

  (A Short Story)

  In a world where only the young and the old survive, Kathy is right on the edge.

  Society hasn’t been the same since the Armageddon Clouds scoured North America. Survival demands ruthless attention to detail, problem solving on a medieval level, and good positioning. Kathy has a pack of loyal dogs, cases of cheap bear, and tons of food supplements. Chain-link fences keep invaders out. The high school public address system broadcasts the soundtrack of her life to half the Oklahoma Panhandle as she reads books in the dying light endless days.

  The Mother’s Brood besiege her stronghold until something worse forces them to desperation.

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