Recovering theoretical physicist, professional geek, newbie sci fi novelist, and die hard Doctor Who fan.
Though Ell Leigh Clarke is originally from England, she is mostly what her friends call a “digital nomad”, hanging in whichever country calls to her… as long as it has good wifi, and coffee.
The Ascension Myth
When Molly discovers her wrist computer has been hijacked by a sentient AI, her only way of surviving is to skip out on her life in the armed services, and run. In no time at all she finds and team… and ultimately a bigger mission. This is 12 books tracking her adventures and her building of a team who are ready to die to protect the world that has outlawed them.
Awakened: Age Of Expansion
In the Future, Even the Broken Can Make a Change... When a nascent AI hacks her holo device, Molly Bates has to think fast and get out of the military before anyone discovers what has happened. The only problem? The swiftest way out is also the most embarrassing. Mortifyingly embarrassing ...
Activated: Age Of Expansion
In the Future, Even the Broken Can Make a Change... When Molly gets called onto a case that she is uniquely qualified for, the team discovers a little more about her past. In the race against the clock to prevent the city of Spire from being subjected to a deadly ...
Called: Age of Expansion
After earning access to a secret base beneath their safe house, Molly and her team are beyond excited by the "toys" they find. However, before they get to explore the super advanced tech and ships they find there, they need to pass one more test. A test which may be ...
Sanctioned: Age of Expansion
General Lance Reynolds needs Molly’s team for a clandestine operation. The only problem? It kicks off in one week, and the Syndicate needs cleaning up once and for all. So what is a girl to do? Go on the offensive, of course. But with the ultimate take down planned for ...
Rebirth: Age of Expansion
Molly is back from the dead. And now even more capable. But the transformation is not without more serious issues. Problems that not even ADAM can help with. Feeling cursed, she undergoes a Vision Quest. The rest of the team prepare for the General's clandestine assignment back at the base ...
Retribution: Age of Expansion
Sometimes, retribution is a slippery slope towards self-destruction. When the General invites Molly and her crew to the ArchAngel, it's not long before news also arrives of a serious threat to the Federation. It falls to Molly and her team to deal with the threat, which winds up in an ...
Cloaked: Age of Expansion
Not everything someone sees is real. Now, both sides of the story are tested by those who hide their reasons. For some, the reasons are good, for others not so much. Molly, Oz, Joel, Sean, Jack and the others are back in Action, supporting the Etheric Federation to stop a ...
Bourne: Age Of Expansion
The same military base where Oz was created witnesses the birth of another AI. The only problem? The military is the one who sets the ground rules. So, what is a new daddy AI supposed to do? Meanwhile, others are attacking the college, and Giles has to get his game ...
Committed: Age of Expansion
Sean Royale is AWOL and in trouble. Molly’s Mom is encroaching on the operation on Gaitune. And the university is under threat from a new player in the system. Tensions mount as secrets unfurl, culminating in Molly walking down the aisle to try and save her ruggedly handsome friend. Meanwhile, ...
Subversion: Age of Expansion
Molly learns a lesson or two when what should have been a routine mission turns into a comical farce. Meanwhile down on Estaria Director Bates puts together pieces of a plot which point to a reality check for the Federenials who always thought that the Federation would be there to ...
Invasion: Age of Expansion
When a blip appears on the Ogg-Estarian military radar monitoring the Outer System, things in the system are set to change forever. Molly and her crew face one of their biggest challenges yet, and the problem isn’t the supposed threat from outside. It’s from the planet itself. Molly rallies the ...
Ascension: Age of Expansion
The end is nigh, and there is one small group willing to put their bodies in front of the insane. Sometimes, it isn't good people doing bad things, but rather bad people without a conscience making decisions for the rest. Decisions that Molly has been fighting for years. This time ...
Confessions of a Space Anthropologist
Giles Kurns: Rogue Operator
How do you domesticate a roguish space archeologist who is addicted to adventure? Answer: You can’t. When Professor Giles Kurns discovered a crucial piece of intel he returns to the ArchAngel command ship with a compelling argument for him to be allowed to reopen an old research project. But this ...
Giles Kurns: Rogue Instigator
Sometimes, it doesn't pay to get out of bed in the morning. For Giles Kurns, he is ready to not only get out of bed, but ready to get back into the field and start tracking a new lead for a relic the Federation wants. Unfortunately, When he and Arlene ...
The Second Dark Ages
Darkest Before The Dawn (The Second Dark Ages Book 3)
Michael continues to work to fulfill the promise to his love, but the world isn't the same place. Now, there is a mistake he made centuries in the past walking around he needs to rectify. To complicate matters, there is a group out of England believing Michael’s blood will be ...
Dawn Arrives (The Second Dark Ages Book 4)
It’s dark outside, but hope will not be defeated. Michael, Akio, Yuko and the rest are searching for the pieces necessary to put together a craft which Michael hopes will take him to Bethany Anne. But first, there are idiots in his way, seeking the same parts and intend to ...
Deuces Wild
Beyond The Frontiers
When Nickie accidentally activates her special functions and finds herself with a stolen ship full of hostile Skaine, she has no choice but to figure out what to do with the cards she has been dealt. A by-product of her activation, her internal computer system also finds her Aunt Tabitha’s ...
Rampage
Returning to find most of the colony slaughtered, Nickie flies into a rampage and goes off to kill the Skaines who did this. Then, at her darkest hour, she learns a valuable lesson about herself, and the true nature of retribution. Meanwhile, her Aunt Tabitha works on her own unique ...
Birthright
When Nickie follows Prince Prissy-Pants to a random, isolated location in space, what she discovers leaves her reeling. And cussing… In the way that only Nickie can. One thing leads to another and she ends up on a mission to save a whole system from chaos. Unfortunately restoring order depends ...
Resolution
Can you ever really go home again? Nickie's seven year sabbatical is up. Having dragged herself back from rock bottom to find that she was always the Grimes she denied, Nickie must overcome the most painful obstacle of all. Reconnecting with her family. Nickie's outright refusal was to be expected ...
The Sword-Mage Chronicles
Bentley wakes up with no memory, but on the ship of 3 ex-gods. This is a mix of science fiction with magic and fantasy elements, inspired by Voodoo lwa. There’s even a merlin-like character, who is super badass with being able to see and manipulate the space-time continuum – which he sometimes does just for kicks!
Taken
“Protect the sword with your life!” When Bentley discovers she has incredible swordsmanship, she wonders if her problems are over. After all, if she can fend for herself, why hang out with three exiled gods in constant moral crisis? Unfortunately, any thoughts of change are forgotten when the crew find ...
Heist
Working together has never been a strong suit for exiled gods. Particularly when it comes to working with new people. Human people. People who have their (now) mortal lives in their hands. To make matters worse, when Bentley uncovers a plot that goes deeper than just the quick heist they’ve ...
Resistance
It's cards on the table time. With Bentley and crew signed up for helping the androids recover from the rogue rebel attack, life briefly seems to be getting back to normal. Apart from Bentley's nightmares and her growing compulsion to follow the mysterious coordinates she's been receiving in her dreams ...
Legba
It's crunch time. When the Three fight about how to proceed, Bentley intervenes in a dangerous attempt to save humanity from destruction. Little does she realize that by embarking on this next mission she'll have to not only face her past, but all the things that she is truly capable ...
Storm
With tensions mounting and the mind-control patch about to roll-out throughout their corner of the universe, the whole human population is in danger. Having just avoided a vicious attack, the Chesed is damaged and in no fit state to go into battle right away. Bentley’s common sense prevails and the ...
Interplanetary Spy for Hire
Kicked out of the Spy Academy for (unfair) political reason, Jayne sells her ticket home and decides in true entrepreneurial spirit, to stick around and sell her services to the highest bidder.
Picking and choosing her own cases, she recruits friends and friendly arms dealers to help her fight the good fight. Of course, no one rocks the boat without creating a few enemies… and Jayne’s life quickly becomes more complicated than just paying rent on her office space.
Expelled
Jayne Austin wasn’t always the galaxy’s number one spy. She was expelled from spy school for uncovering a double-agent because apparently, that’s what happens to spies that accomplish great things. Given a choice between going back to her planet or selling her one-way ticket for starting capital she thought long ...
Exposed
Jayne faces her biggest challenge yet Back out in the field, building her business one spy-job at a time, life is looking up for Jayne and co. Perhaps too good. It’s not long before certain powers in the Techcropolis fear that she’s becoming too powerful. Too successful. With someone clearly ...
Deadland Drifter (Renegade Star Universe)
Jack Reacher-esque… In space.
Deadland Drifter: A Scifi Thriller
When a dental appointment goes sideways, former Union Operative Jack Burner wakes to find himself drugged, and imprisoned. And he's given a choice: assassinate an Admiral... or allow himself to ...
Deadland Wanderer: A Scifi Thriller
A mysterious message beckons Jack to a clandestine 'meet', but something is off. The code is identical to one his team used back in his Union days. When no one ...
Deadland Sentinel: A Scifi Thriller
With the trafficking ring obliterated, Jack turns his attention to wiping out the dregs of the criminal empire. But when he arrives to take out a particular scumbag, he only ...
Deadland Protector: A Scifi Thriller
With the Hand dead and the Ring mostly dismantled, Burner's team turn their attention to loose ends. The thing about loose ends is if you tug at them there is ...
Karma One
The year on the human home world calendar is 2220.
Life is a bit like the tv shows of the 20th Century in some ways.
In others? Not so much.
I’m on a League of Civilizations star ship. Yep. Star Ship. In space.
I’m currently trying to physically, and emotionally, recover from a crash where I lost my partner and acclimate to a new life in a foreign sector of space where I’ve been stranded. All would be going fine except we also have to survive an encounter with the deadliest lifeform in the universe.
No big deal. That’s my sarcastic voice.
To boot, if it were just about the lives of everyone on board that would be one thing. But it’s not. It’s about the lives of everyone in all the League civilizations. That’s hundreds of billions of sentients.
Karma One: Book One
The year on the human home world calendar is 2220. Life is a bit like the tv shows of the 20th Century in some ways. In others? Not so much. I'm on a League of Civilizations star ship. Yep. Star Ship. In space. I’m currently trying to physically, and emotionally, ...