Terminus

The Book

When They Come for the World

In the dying waters of the Southern Ocean, the alien BanuSa glides on the back of a humpback whale, a secret ritual she has indulged for years. Her species, the Sa, arrived on Earth long ago as explorers. What they found was a planet of extraordinary beauty, and a dominant species systematically destroying it.

"What Terminus meant for the primary species of this planet was too hard to contemplate, much less justify, but humans could not be allowed to destroy this oasis in an otherwise mostly barren section of the galaxy."

Terminus is the Sa's plan to resolve the human problem. And it is already in motion.

Army physician and combat veteran Dr. Trey Ocean is trying to outrun his ghosts in a world on the edge, war-scarred, ocean-sick, and quietly unraveling. When Terminus is executed, his world is shattered overnight. Civilization, as humanity knew it, ends.

But in the wreckage, something unexpected emerges. And Trey's missing daughter Hope may hold the key to everything that comes next, including a far darker threat hurtling toward Earth from the stars.

The Ocean family is not what it appears. A hidden connection to the Sa — rooted in Trey's tragic past — will determine whether anything survives what comes next.

Terminus delves into the depths of human darkness — and the heights of our capacity to love.

Book 2

Five Battle-Hardened Warriors. One Planet. No Mercy.

Twenty-three years after the Red Eye plague nearly erased humanity, Earth is rebuilding. Trey Ocean is President of the United States of Earth (USE). Humans, the hybrid HumanSo, and the alien aquatic Sa share a strained, hard-won peace. For the first time in a generation, humanity dares to hope.

Millions of Sa refugees, fleeing conquered worlds, race toward their last bastion of safety: planet Earth. They were followed.

The resource-hungry Tuurbaa, the predators the Sa call Chaos Beings, have already conquered the three Sa homeworlds. Bred for conquest, Tuurbaa scout leader Blaatoo craves martial glory, ascension in the hive, and a planet full of prey. Blaatoo launches a reconnaissance in force, plunging the recovering human cities of Annapolis and Baltimore into darkness. His squad has two objectives: gather intelligence for the coming hive invasion and hunt down humanity’s leader.

With power dead and communications silenced, Earth’s defense falls to whoever is still willing to resist. Federation Marine Lieutenant Hope Ocean is a HumanSo assigned to defend her father while carrying her first child. Zuri Fleet is an orphaned citizen-soldier holding a barricade with a crossbow against monsters with plasma weapons. Admiral Mia Stokes is the one-handed fleet commander her sailors call the Handless Huntress, who fights back from the deck of a three-masted frigate from the age of sail. KanSa, a gentle Sa, once committed an act her people consider unthinkable, and she may be compelled to do it again. And not every human will stand with humanity.

Terminus Chaos, Book 2 in the Terminus series, returns to an Earth still recovering from genocide. For centuries, the alien Sa lived hidden in Earth’s oceans, until human-induced climate change and nuclear proliferation forced them to act in self-preservation. When their attempt to manage the “human problem” through a hybrid force of agents called HumanSo failed, the Sa unleashed the Terminus virus, the plague humans call the Red Eye, and reset human civilization. Now the three dominant species on Earth must see beyond their painful history and stand together against a new existential threat to their only home.

From the streets of the USE capital in Annapolis to the orbiting HumanSo space habitat, Scully Station, Terminus Chaos is a relentless story of alien invasion, military grit, and the price of defending a world that has already survived the end once.