Kaios Books: 8 books

Gem of the Galaxy features two world-building books where the main constants are the fictional planet--with its exotic environment--and the cultures. The planet is populated by humans, who call themselves Ceitwans, and sentient adroit bipeds, the Xirophans. The Xirophans were there first. The...

When Elizabeth Fortune is forced to quit school and find a way to get by, she must rely on all her personal resources. For a young woman in 1870, that’s hard enough, but for someone of mixed Native American, African American and Anglo American heritage, it’s a challenge that few could survive....

Dwinn Somuron is part of the third generation of people whose starship crash-landed on a planet’s massive storm-battered plateau. More than half of the first generation explored the trees beyond the sheer escarpment—and vanished. Those remaining struggled for survival in the depths of a rock-shrouded...

Told in first person, HAMMER COME DOWN depicts the atypical life of Jason, man-servant to Tolin Cobb. Cobb's family developed a small plantation in Alabama in the 1820s; Jason was born there. He grows up knowing well the restraint demanded of a black man, yet always dreams of freedom. It is a mysterious...

Set in the 1840s at the end of the Second Seminole War, On Promised Land details the great American dream of all pioneers who settled in western America. But the characters in this story are black pioneers. Black-Seminole: Tru, free-born in the Everglades and recently orphaned; his two younger siblings,...

In 1868, very few settlers stopped in southern Kansas. The big cattle drives, so often associated with West, were only a year old. As yet there were no six shooters, no cowboy boots, no barbed wire. But mysticism and divination the were widely accepted. Meet Ellen Hargrove who, recently widowed,...

The people of the planet New Esrii, refugees from Earth, live in a time of uncertainties. The star Lambda2, from a neighboring binary system, is on a tangential orbit that will closely pass their solar system. Preparations to withstand the predicted hardships have been underway for several years....

Juilan Pranss is just a lowly government employee on a space-faring planet. Or is she? Juilan suddenly isn’t sure after she’s spirited from a spaceliner, kidnapped and continually under threat on a distant planet she knows little about. During this time, she keeps having disturbing visions and...