The Warlord

For fans of Jack Campbell, David Weber, and John Scalzi, a galaxy-spanning space opera where one man’s fight to save his wife becomes a war for the future of humanity.

Luke Blackburn only needed to cast one vote. As Commander of the Milky Way Alliance, his final duty was to travel to a distant planet and vote for the next king of the First Family. Instead, through a political ambush orchestrated by his own royal siblings, Luke is crowned monarch of the entire galaxy, a title he never wanted and has no intention of keeping.

Then Annie, his pregnant bride, is kidnapped by forces wielding terrifying new weapons that carve warships in half. The trail leads through treacherous Nobility kingdoms, past rogue warlords building illegal fleets, and into the territory of the Greys, carnivorous aliens who’ve been lurking on humanity’s border for millennia.

To rescue Annie and their newborn daughter from a Grey prison world, Luke makes the most dangerous gamble of his life: he builds a mechanized army led by an android replica of himself. The mission succeeds. But the replica refuses to die, and it wants everything Luke has. His crown. His family. His identity.

Now Luke must outfight his own creation, unite fractured royal houses against an alien invasion, and convince the woman he loves that the real man survived. The galaxy didn’t ask for a Warlord. But it’s going to get one.