A Ranger’s War Volume One: A Steampunk Space Adventure: Book One Steam and Empires

Firefly meets space noir. He was five days from retirement, but when assassins target him on a brutal volcanic outpost, an exiled Ranger is forced into a deadly galactic conspiracy he never saw coming.**

For thirty years, Galactic Ranger Ralth Eric Martin has been buried alive on the frontier of human space. Punished for a disastrous first assignment, he was exiled to Bane’s World—a brutal, volcanic industrial outpost on the edge of the galaxy. He has the scars to prove he can handle the lawless miners and gritty, clockwork machinery of the frontier.

Now, he is just counting down the hours until he can walk away for good.

Then, the sky burns.

When a massive cargo steamship is vaporized on his watch, Ralth’s quiet exit is cut short. What begins as a straightforward hunt for a saboteur quickly spirals into a fight for survival when the conspiracy turns its sights on him. To stay alive and hunt down the culprits, Ralth must dust off investigative skills he hasn’t used for decades.

But the plot runs deeper than the corrupt system that abandoned him.

As ancient secrets surface and a ruthless enemy pursues him across the stars, they are about to learn a costly lesson: they forgot about the old relic on the edge of nowhere. And an old veteran pushed against a wall is the most dangerous man in the galaxy.


Grab the gripping first volume in a gritty, atmospheric Space Western series! If you love the rogueish charm of Firefly, the methodical mystery of space noir, and retro-futuristic steampunk action, read A Ranger’s War: Volume One today in Paperback or stream it free on Kindle Unlimited!