Star Runners Universe Series

A talented gamer. A secret military program. Will he discover the curriculum is out of this world? High school senior Austin Stone hates being trapped in his hometown. With no chance at a scholarship, he's resigned to a bleak future where his friends head off to college and his only escape is the Star Runners video game. But when he secures the top spot on an elite server, he's shocked to receive an invitation to attend a mysterious academy. Reporting to a classified location, Austin is astonished to find a covert military base and learn his favorite game was a high-tech simulator. And he soon finds himself in the cockpit of a real spaceship battling intergalactic pirates on increasingly dangerous missions. But space pillaging is just the beginning of a whole new level of perils… Can Austin defend his champion status and join the ranks of Earth's fearless fliers? Star Runners is the first book in an adventurous sci-fi series. If you like detailed game worlds, ambitious heroes, and galactic battles, then you'll love L.E. Thomas's electrifying coming-of-age story. Buy Star Runners to unlock an interstellar adventure today!

The dangers in the universe followed him to Earth. Starfighter pilot Austin Stone, recently commissioned as the newest Star Runner with the Galactic Legion of Planets, always heard you can't go home again, but he never imagined his homecoming would descend into terror and violence. Upon his arrival, he is thrust into peril as a dark force lurking in the shadows targets Star Runners and their loved ones in a series of deadly attacks. After surviving an explosion on the streets of San Francisco, he rushes back to Georgia to ensure the safety of his mother. The threats from the stars intensify, magnifying into an unimaginable offensive, leading Austin back into the seat of a Trident starfighter to defend his home and family. Packed with captivating pursuits and thrilling encounters, Star Runners: Revelation Protocol is the second entry to the Star Runners Universe: a collection of space adventure books.

True friendship has no boundaries. Being a recruiter for the Galactic Legion of Planets is a safe and secure job for Josh Morris as he tries to re-enter a "normal" life following his captivity at the hands of Dax Rodon and the Tyral Pirates. But he is tortured by a vow he made to the smuggling group known as the Barracudas to return their ship.  Once he decides to leave Earth, Josh has no idea his past is hunting him, seeking revenge. What follows is a heart-pounding adventure discovering new worlds and cultures, narrow escapes, and thrilling space battles as Josh travels to the farthest regions of the galaxy—and beyond it into the unexplored Dark Space—to keep a promise and help a friend, unknowingly sparking events leading to a conflict of terrifying scope unlike any the stars have ever seen. Star Runners: Dark Space is the electrifying fifth entry to the Star Runners Universe: a collection of space adventure books.

The galaxy is burning.    The Galactic Legion of Planets is reeling from a surprise invasion from a mysterious force hailing from Dark Space. Back in the cockpit of a Trident, Austin Stone and the elite Star Runners are battling against a swarming armada threatening to conquer star systems that could ultimately place Earth in the invaders' path!    At the same time, the Zahl Empire is maneuvering to take advantage of the Legion's struggles by igniting the long-simmering cold war and avenging the embarrassment of the previous galactic war. As the Star Runners parry the vicious onslaught of an alien force, they must respond to a Zahlian incursion on the Fringe world of Ashia that could escalate into a two-front war the Legion could not survive.    Enhanced by intense space battles in what one reader described as an "overarching powerful ensemble of a space epic that keeps you reading," Star Runners: Galactic War is the sixth installment of the primary Legion storyline in the Star Runners Universe. 

The enemy created the best starfighter in the galaxy. Now he's going to steal it. Star Runners are dying. Lurking in the darkness, the expansion faction of the Zahl Empire has an innovative threat confronting the Tridents of the Galactic Legion of Planets. After surviving pirate attacks and battling threats to Earth, Austin Stone already knows better than most the perils in the universe as he boards a carrier for his first official assignment in a starfighter. Soon after his tour begins, a mysterious spacecraft strikes fear in the hearts of all Star Runners and could catapult the factions into a galactic war. Dealing with plunging morale and missing comrades, Austin has to cope with the fact they are meeting an enemy they cannot defeat. But perhaps the Legion could find another way to engage the new and deadly adversary … Featuring nail-biting intergalactic espionage and exhilarating dogfights in space, Star Runners: Mission Wraith is the third entry to the Star Runners Universe: a collection of space adventure books.

Some doubt his existence.  Some are hunting him.  Some will die by his hand.  Efficient. Deadly. Untraceable.  An intergalactic assassin with numerous identities strikes without leaving any hint of his existence, giving him the moniker: Ghost. His lethal work will touch lives across the galaxy, from the military to the primitive farmer to the Zahlian Merchant Marine. In the wake of death follows a capital ship captain hunting for a target he scarcely believes in and an over-the-hill marshal who still has another chase in him.  But what happens with the flawless contract killer may have reached too far during a job? When all clues lead to one planet, and his pursuers back Ghost into a corner, all bets are off.  Experience the sinister side of the Star Runners Universe in this tale about an assassin who may have reached the end of the line. 

How can you oppose an adversary willing to claim victory at any cost? Still reeling from recent events in the intergalactic cold war, former Earth resident Austin Stone enters a new phase of his career as a Star Runner with the Galactic Legion of Planets by joining the covert squadron known as the "Scorpions." The training is demanding and rigid, pushing him to the limits as he continues to improve his natural skill at the stick of a Trident starfighter. But factions in the Zahl Empire yearning to fan the flames of Imperial expansion continue to operate in secrecy, attempting to ignite another fight with the Legion. An immoral and clandestine scheme hatched years ago by Zahlian Agents is entering its final stages, a project with the possibility of shattering the Legion from within. Through vicious encounters and clandestine missions far behind enemy lines, the Scorpions will need all their courage to confront a foe determined to spark a conflict at any cost. With heartbreaking revelations and epic space battles, Star Runners: Scorpions is the fourth entry to the Star Runners Universe: a collection of space adventure books.

Books 1-3 in the Star Runners Universe collected in one volume!     Embark on a journey unlike any other with the Star Runners: Omnibus! The first three complete novels set in the Star Runners universe are compiled into one novel for the first time! Join Austin Stone as he is recruited to a mysterious academy that will challenge everything he thinks he knows about himself and the universe.    Chock full of space battles and interstellar adventure, this special collection includes Star Runners, Star Runners: Revelation Protocol and Star Runners: Mission Wraith

Nat Hodges' life as he knew it ended the day the Zahl Empire invaded his world, Tarrafa. Sweeping through the initial defenses in a matter of days, the Zahl destroy everything Nat had ever known. Traditions and customs are outlawed. Living in a homeworld occupied by an oppressive force, Nat faces the choice of fighting a seemingly hopeless battle for the past or succumbing to the overwhelming power of the future. A brand new entry point novel in the Star Runners Universe, Invasion is the gripping tale of one young man's experience when an unstoppable armada from another world decimates his planet.

A struggle that will change a world. A family torn apart by an oppressive king seeking power.  A world mired in fear and mysticism.  One young woman with the power to change it all.   Shanda Vanaad has always had nightmares. Now, they are coming true. With the knowledge her ability carries the death penalty, Shanda decides to hide her talent during her tribe's attempt to seek solace near the Spire of Ashia.   But when they arrive, a surprise raid by magical airships carrying fierce warriors thrusts her shadowy past into the present and changes her life forever. With a new fate before her and a world's forgotten history emerging, Shanda must decide if she is willing to avenge the past.   Ashia: The Seer and the Spire is an epic tale of adventure and discovery taking place on a dark world within the Star Runners Universe. It reveals a world mired in secrets, oppression, and a conspiracy that could alter the course of events for the entire planet. 

Retribution has arrived.   The past has caught up with Ashia.    And it wants revenge.    Shanda Vanaad tries to hold together a population on the brink, urging peace and order while preparing for the worst as the alien craft lands on the desert flats. And then they are contacted by the vessel's occupants hailing from a faction that has been preparing for centuries to avenge the past.  Leading at the head of a ravaging horde of mutated humans, Lord Adalric Demsha seeks conquest and will accept nothing less than a complete surrender of Ashia. When the leaders of Ashia refuse, the world descends into a war unlike anything in history.  Will Ashia band together to resist the invading force? Will otherworldly technology be enough to save the ancient city of Ashia?  Ashia: The Queen and the Outcast is the second novel taking place in a dark world within the Star Runners Universe's unfolding events. 

Survival is everything.   The fleet orbiting Ashia has not come to negotiate. They have come for conquest.  The primitive weaponry of the Ashia people is no match for the onslaught of an intergalactic adversary during the initial invasion. When fighting an unwinnable war against the invader seeking to crush their existing way of life, Shanda Vanaad decides to lead her people to the end and make them bleed for every advance. When his leaders charge Commander Gray Radman with taking the planet of Ashia but place restrictions on his tactics, he tries to keep his forces alive in a hostile land while fighting the unrealistic expectations of an empire accustomed to victory.  Soon, the struggle descends into a savage slugfest across Ashia. But on the brutal battlefields of a planet fighting for survival, can there be a winner? Ashia: The Rebels and the Conquerors is the third novel taking place on a dark world within the Star Runners Universe's unfolding events.