The Saga

The Fighter Queen Saga

Imagine the future. The people of Terra have migrated to the stars, pioneered new worlds. One of those new worlds is Vega 3, a near idyllic society which flourishes in the arts, culture, and religion. Vegan scientists have bio-engineered their race to physical perfection, spawning the slogan “There is no such thing as an ugly Vegan”. Vega is a peaceful world, the ideal vacation spot, but its inhabitants descended from Scandinavia…and its Viking heritage.

Another new world is Sirius 1, a hostile planet that orbits between harsh binary stars. Sirius 1 was settled by White Supremacists, Nazis, the Klan, and other North American racist types. A new galactic power is established, the Sirian Confederacy, where racism becomes law, slavery is reinstated, and a serf system implemented. The Confederacy isn’t content to dominate its own people, but looks outward to other worlds with a desire to dominate them as well. As world after world falls under their heel, they eventually set their eyes on the biggest prize of them all–the Solar Federation and Terra itself.

The Fighter King

The Fighter Queen saga begins with the Sirian invasion of Vega 3, where Oliver Lincoln III, a civilian defense contractor, is trying to sell Lincoln Fighters to the Vegan Guard. In spite of his occupation, Oliver has always considered himself a pacifist–he believes there is no problem that can’t be solved by peaceful means; violence is never necessary. Trapped on Vega 3, he learns the hard reality first hand, witnessing the atrocities committed by the Confederate Army…and has to make a personal decision. No matter what decision he makes, it will cost him.

The Sword of Sophia

After the Vegan surrender, the Sirian occupation proves every bit as brutal as everyone feared. Vegan morals and culture come under assault as thousands are carried into slavery. Erik Norgaard returns from prison camp after three years in captivity hoping to pick up his life again, but finds those he loves living a depraved, day to day existence. His parents live in fear, his girlfriend faces daily degradation, and his little brother has joined the enemy. Overwhelmed and outraged, Erik must do…something!
An ancient prophecy provides the answer and defines his path as he sets out to make the enemy pay. What will be his final fate, and what legacy will survive his attempt to set things right?

A Vow to Sophia

The saga continues 25 years later, when the Confederacy is finally strong enough to take on the Federation. Oliver Lincoln has spent those 25 years designing the finest fighter ships in the galaxy, but now he’s too old to fight. His son, Johnny Lincoln, is not. Johnny is a skilled fighter pilot, possibly the best in the Space Force. Johnny teams up with Onja Kvoorik, a Norwegian girl who was born on Vega during the Sirian occupation; after her mother and sister were sold into slavery, Onja’s father smuggled her to Terra when she was only 12 years old. Before leaving Vega, she made a vow to Goddess Sophia to free her mother and sister. Now, with the attack on the Federation, she sees her chance, and joins the Space Force as a combat gunner. With Johnny Lincoln as her pilot, Onja begins drawing blood–lots of it.

The Fighter Queen

Twenty years into the war, Onja is no longer a young girl–but she’s still fighting. Now she has her own squadron. The war has moved across the galaxy, and it’s time to liberate her home world of Vega 3. She has become so deadly that Sirius has placed a price on her head–10 million sirios, dead or alive–but nothing is going to blunt her determination to fulfill the vow she made as a terrified child of 12. Her father is still on Vega, hopefully alive, and she must find him. Then it’s on to Sirius 1, where she prays her mother and sister are also still alive. It will be a bitter fight right down to the final surrender, but she has a new pilot now, a natural-born stick. His name is Johnny Lincoln II.

Star Marine

The war with Sirius lasts for 22 years. Millions of people are fighting thousands of battles. Star Marine fills in some of those years with tales of valor, trauma, and tears. As the Federation pushes the Sirians away from the Sol System, other planets must be liberated. Altair and Alpha Centauri become battlefields on a global scale, and then it’s time to start invading enemy home worlds, such as Beta Centauri, Vega 3, and Sirius. Each campaign takes years to complete with terrible loss of life. Rico Martinez, a Marine rifleman, fights some of those battles, but not every battle is won in the trenches. There is the battle to save lives, such as the battle waged by James Carson, Carla Ferracci, and the rest of the crew on ResQMed 11, which tracks down damaged fighters in deep space and pulls the crews to safety. There’s the battle to plan the war, such as that waged by Wade Palmer in the Polygon, where no bullets fly but the wrong words can cost thousands of lives. And there is the battle to gain intelligence, such as that waged by Regina Wells, who goes undercover in a black op that leads her to the highest levels of the enemy’s command structure in an effort to discover who is feeding Federation secrets to the enemy. And finally, Onja Kvoorik is still out there, still fighting, killing every Sirian she can find.

The Fighter Queen saga is an epic series spanning nearly 50 years of future history. It’s a saga of love, hate, revenge, courage, sacrifice, and loss. You won’t want to miss a single blood-soaked page, a single heart-broken tear, or a single victory yell. The Fighter Queen saga, available now from AKW Books–you’ve never read anything like it.