The next generation is here, and trouble is in their DNA.
Jessie and Eric Ramsey have a family history of crime. Fighting back against heredity, each tried to make their way in the galaxy by respectable means. Jessie joined Earth Navy; Eric went to college for magic. But fate wasn’t having it. Eric was expelled. Jessie went AWOL. Now, due to a magical mishap that wasn’t entirely anyone’s fault (we swear!), they’re stranded 5 years in the future on a Mars that’s no longer friendly territory.

Caught behind enemy lines in a galactic civil war they didn’t know about, the pair need every trick in their respective books to survive on Mars long enough to escape. Along the way, they’ll meet old friends and make new foes, and if they’re very lucky, manage to figure out where they belong in this new galactic order.

And Mars is only the beginning. Time travel is a one-way trip, and the only way to stop is death. And Ramseys don’t die easy.

Tempus Fugitive

Tempus Fugitive, narrated by Mikael Naramore

Before you play the game, know which side you're on.

Captain Jessie Ramsey has brought the starship Arete to the hostile Eyndar Empire. She and her crew have traded the complexities of the Earth/Mars wars for the open hostility of a species that will shoot them on sight.

Their anti-piracy mission has evolved. Rather than simply clearing the star lanes for peaceful merchants and civilian transports, they're going after an illicit trade in sentient laborers. It's all going fine until one of the traffickers they capture reveals the location of a black market space station that makes their own operation look like small potatoes.

With a raid to plan and a space station full of enslaved people to liberate, the nice clean moral line blurs. An extraction operation on a grand scale, Captain Ramsey must contend with civilian bystanders, the safety of her own boarding parties, and the very people she's there to save all being in the line of fire.

And that's all before a mysterious second strike team arrives with an agenda all their own.

Horns and Halos, narrated by Mikael Naramore

When you don't know where to go, a wizard's magic steals the show.

The hunt for captive humans still held in Eyndar Empire space has hit a wall. Captain Jessie Ramsey's assault on Outpost 71 resulted in the liberation of hundreds but little in the way of leads.

But what if dark magic could find more? Wouldn't the benefit outweigh the harm? And what if that dark magic was chronomancy? And what if that chronomancy was wielded by the galaxy's least responsible wizard, Eric Ramsey?

Still willing to give it a try? Still worth the risk?

Then hell yeah! Let's go rescue some humans! What could possibly go wrong?

The Art of Where, narrated by Mikael Naramore

Some people are haunted by their past; others actively hunt it down.

Fresh off an inglorious defeat, the starship Arete has been thwarted in its noble mission. Unable to move on and find some other way to use the awesome technology at her disposal, Captain Jessie Ramsey seeks payback. The unidentified interloper of a starship may have won the battle, but she's determined to make this rivalry a war…

…and win it.

With the whole crew working on solutions to the ship's identity and countermeasures against its baffling defenses, it's only a matter of time before Jessie's rival becomes her prey. And when the identity of the mystery ship's captain finally comes to light, the revelation will rock Jessie's galaxy.

Sister Goldeneye, narrated by Mikael Naramore

If you can't fight the good fight, what are you fighting for?

Though she's new to the resistance, Jessie Ramsey and the crew of the Arete are the spearhead of an assault that's been years in the making. They've uncovered the heart of a sinister alien conspiracy to hide the existence of ongoing human labor camps, and on a scale that's unlike anything any of the heroes have seen before.

They have a target.

They have a goal.

What they need is a plan, and that's a tall order when the idea is to rescue a small city's worth of captive laborers.

But like all good plans, this one comes together when someone unexpected suggests something unthinkable, and the impossible suddenly doesn't look so impossible anymore. The mission is on, and the stakes are too high to fail.

The Eyndar Empire isn't going to know what hit them!

Rescue Like a Hurricane, narrated by Mikael Naramore

The only thing crazier than the rescue plan is the backup plan.

Carl Ramsey is a dead man. Or he will be soon. Captured by the Eyndar Empire, his old Third War service record becomes a list of charges. Actions that earned him commendations and acclaim from his own side resulted in thousands of deaths to his eyndar foes, and they plan to make a public celebration out of his executions. Plural. Thanks to medical science, they have Six Deaths lined up. With a calendar of events available via the omni, the Arete crew has a very literal deadline to work with formulating a rescue plan.

How does a small crew, even as gifted as those of the Arete, sneak into the capital city of an enemy species' homeworld, reach a captive of the highest profile, and get back out alive? To answer that question, an old friend has to reveal a long-kept secret.

Meanwhile, a forgotten member of the team works in the shadows on a contingency that just might be worse than failure.

Lies That Bind Us, narrated by Mikael Naramore

If he could turn back time, he would find a way...

A loved one's life is on the line. The only hope of saving him is a slim one, and so much will have to go right that it would take a miracle to rescue him. Eric Ramsey isn't willing to accept failure, and his solution to a long shot is to lock himself and the entire Arete crew in a time loop. Their only hope for escape is to save a single life that refuses to be saved.

As the only one who keeps his memories from loop to loop, it's up to Eric to learn from his (oh, so many…) mistakes and lead the effort to save the life of his own father from a very old foe.

Words That Hurt You, narrated by Mikael Naramore

The only act of piracy that no one seems to mind is preying upon pirates themselves.

A ship and crew with no port to call home still need supplies. And to take those supplies by force makes one the lowest form of life in the Black Ocean: pirates. But avoiding that moral quagmire doesn't put food on the table or fuel in the engines. Hunting other pirates, by contrast, does. And no navy or government will shed a tear.

Passage of Time Mission Pack 2, narrated by Mikael Naramore

The bigger the ship, the bigger the mission.

Fed up with politics getting in the way of helping people, Captain Jessie Ramsey takes the Arete someplace where telling friend from foe should be easy: The Eyndar Empire. Inside the territory of humanity's greatest enemy, they raid labor camps and board pirate slavers to free sentient creatures. It would all be so much simpler if not for a mysterious ship interfering.

Passage of Time Mission Pack 3, narrated by Mikael Naramore

Where do you see yourself in five years? Not a question to ask a wizard.

When Eric Ramsey gets expelled during his final year of college, studying magic, his sister Jessie takes shore leave from Earth Navy to check in on him. Sisterly concern for Eric's future confronts a desperate need to justify his actions. A demonstration of how he'd gotten expelled results in an accident that launches the pair five years into the future.

Passage of Time Mission Pack 1, narrated by Mikael Naramore

If you make someone an offer they can't refuse, make SURE they can't refuse it.

Mordecai The Brown was content to move on. He'd had his fun, had his vengeance, and had his next adventure all planned out. Then someone had to get it into their head to extort him for help overthrowing a planet.

With a friend's life on the line, simple reprisal just won't do. With the help of his honorary niece and nephew, Jessie and Eric, Mort devises a plan of both rescue and vengeance, involving an elaborate deception to disguise a galactic-scale betrayal.

Because what is true friendship if you aren't willing to commit regicide?

Tempus Fugitive, narrated by Mikael Naramore

J.S. Morin

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