Mike Shepherd: 54 books

Kris Longknife killed Vicky Peterwald’s brother.  So Vicky will kill Kris Longknife.  Or try. Raised in the shadow of her brother Hank, Vicky now finds herself heir to the Peterwald Empire and hell bent on killing Kris Longknife.  When that doesn’t work out, she finds herself...

**“Another fun addition to a very entertaining science fiction series…An exciting space opera that is set in the universe of Kris Longknife.”—Night Owl Reviews (on Vicky Peterwald: Target) **   Seeking revenge for her brother’s death, Grand Duchess Vicky Peterwald underwent an unlikely...

You knew when Kris asked for a desk job that it wasn't going to be pretty. Well, here's the bad, the worst and the ugly. Budgets! This short story started out as the opening chapters to Kris Longknife - Emissary, but hey, we all know how bad an office job is. Who wants to start off an action adventure...

The Victory Parades are over and half the fleet is back in mothballs, but out on the rim of space, ships are vanishing.  Rita Nuu Lonknife had enough of sitting home while she was pregnant.  Now with an infant in arm, she wants some action.  She pulls strings to get a heavy cruiser hauled out of...

You knew it had to happen sooner or later.  Abby had a problem and she figures the only way to solve it is to bring everything to a roaring halt.  It had to happen.

This is the story of Mick Scott, some of which is based on the author's Vietnam wartime experiences as an Air Force correspondent for Armed Forces Radio. In the fictionalized version of events, on his way to Vietnam, Scott is ordered to report to US Intelligence in San Francisco where he is recruited...

When the oil companies arrived in Scotland in the 1970s, they had never before dared to bring oil up from beneath such deep and stormy waters as the North Sea. It would take colossal engineering, new technology and huge egos to step up to the challenge. Forty years later, the fascinating story...

Launa O'Brian's first assignment right our of West Point is beyond strange They want her to help a peaceful band of farmers win a war lost 6,000 years before she was born! The Army has a time machine.  They even tested it once.  It didn't work, but trust them, they fixed it. With...

From the Nebula Nominated and New York Times Best Selling Author comes the long lost story of how Launa O'Brian and Jack Walking Bear got sucked into the impossible. This has never been available before. Follow our two courageous troopers as they prepare for an insane mission even as the world around them descends into its own insanity.

How do you win a battle lost 6,000 years before you were born?  How do you make sure that winning that battle doesn't lose you the war?  Lieutenant Launa O'brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear have won their first battle and made their first recruits.  But the whole steppe is up in arms and the...

How do you win a war lost 6,000 years ago and change all history? What if you win that war, but find, 6,000 years in that future that you don't much like the changes?  Come with Launa and Jack to the exciting conclusion of the Lost Millennium Trilogy as they discover what they have done ... and find...

At 80, Cassie just wants a job.  The guy giving the interview is out of this world.  Oh, but he's offering fantastic Heath Benefits, as in the Fountain of Youth, but still, the cost may be too high.  The fate of nations may hang on a sharp edger of a knife forged long ago for...

She'd always wanted to work on the Moon, but she never expected to have a job working there while she was still in High School.  Bummer, it's delivering pizza remot from her bedroom, but, heh, the job's on the moon! He needs a killer science project to get a scholarship to a decent high school. ...

As a freelance CIA operative, Mick Scott was no stranger to danger. He had infiltrated the violent Weather Underground, and now he was assigned to pose as a Russian correspondent for Radio Moscow while actually reporting on the atrocities of Pol Pot in Cambodia for Voice of America. In the...