Mark Wayne McGinnis

He was under house arrest. Now humanity’s survival rests in his hands.Lieutenant Commander Jason Reynolds is stranded at his grandfather’s scrapyard, wearing an ankle monitor and watching his life unravel. Then he discovers what lies hundreds of feet beneath the rusting metal: an advanced...

Captain Galvin Quintos just lost the most powerful warship in the U.S. Space Navy. Now he's trapped aboard the thing that killed her—a five-mile Gorvian dreadnought haunted by an AI that's been alone for five hundred years and doesn't want company. It wants leverage.

Better buckle up … the Scrapyard Ship gang is back for a new interstellar romp! … Over the past year, things have been relatively peaceful within the Planetary Alliance. Captain Jason Reynolds is looking forward to a fishing trip in the deep wilderness on Alantia Dastile with Michael, his...

First Contact: Assess humans with the flawed, rudimentary, mind … Unbeknownst to simpleton Cuddy Perkins, his dependable, uneventful, life was about to be turned completely upside down. It’s a moonless summer night when a severely damaged intergalactic spacecraft enters Earth’s upper orbit...

Captain Galvin Quintos is grappling with two gut-wrenching losses in his life—first, Hardy, the enigmatic ChronoBot, and more recently, Doc Viv. Now, he's exchanged his Captain's Mount for a life of solitude deep in the Colorado wilderness. Intel from the Alliance raises the alarm: Earth is...

Hang on for dear life -- what a ride! At first, young Ryan Chase thought it was no big deal. A minor space collision with a creepy-looking refurbished Paotow Tanker. Hey, these things happen … right? Sure, unless the one you’ve plowed into is a murderous psychopath, who’s been lying in...

As dark as the void of space, Velon ships loomed like monoliths carved from obsidian. Four-Star Station fell prey to their assault, leaving behind a trail of bodies and hostages. Now, their course is set for Earth, and time is running out… In bygone days, Star Watch would’ve rushed to the...

An advanced enemy fleet, comprised of thousands of Sahhrain Vastma-class warships, is headed toward the Sol System - a fleet that can in no way be matched by the US fleet’s current assets....

It's 2182. Stuck on a dull space station, 17-year-old Loni Solace's heart is failing her, and not just metaphorically. In search of one last thrill, she jumps aboard a freighter to see the galaxy for the first and last time. She expects adventure, but what she gets is a nightmare as crewmates...

Brace yourself for the most electrifying, adrenaline-fueled mission yet with USS Lincoln — Mercy Kill by Mark Wayne McGinnis. Caught in a deadly game of interstellar cat and mouse with a new and vile alien enemy, Captain Galvin Quintos will be forced to make choices no US Space Navy Captain...

Five years have passed, and the story begins in a dark period within the Star Watch saga. Captain Jason Reynolds, Omni of the U.S. Space Fleet, along with his now 16-year-old daughter, Mollie, are en route to the Dacci System to attend the memorial service for none other than Boomer, his other...

The need for Star Watch assistance is heating up within the galaxy. With their resources quickly thinning, Ricket and a small team are sent to Port City, on the planet Eriok. Here Ricket’s adventure begins, and he’ll have to use every bit of his technical cunning to survive because what’s...

The epic battle for AI supremacy in the universe between the Geo-Mind and Gia continues. Beneath the isolation zone, 300 alien troops have been dispatched, and if that’s not discouraging enough, the 23rd Silarian Fleet has initiated terra displacement operations outside the energy dome. It’s...

The Craing War is now over, the enemy defeated. As planetary systems around the galaxy try to bring normalcy back to their existence, one thing becomes crystal clear: Without the Craing around to keep everyone in line, space has become a far more dangerous place....

Captain Galvin Quintos, along with his irreverent crew, is back and facing his most harrowing enemy yet. As the battle within the Eta Carinae Star System rages on with the Varapin, Quintos is forced to make a deal with the devil, one Commander Dunft Choob....

They knew the day would come—the day when Earth itself would come under direct attack by the Craing. After destroying much of Jhardon and the Mau planet of Carz-Mau, an elite Vanguard fleet of seven Craing dreadnaughts, planet killers, enters Earth’s orbit. Captain Jason Reynolds and the...

Welcome to the final heart-pounding episode of the Scrapyard Ship Series books. It’s all about to end in one climactic crescendo. The story continues with Captain Jason Reynolds and his team: Billy, Rizzo, and the rhino-warrior, Traveler. They must attempt to rescue Ricket and Gaddy, still...

Lone Star Renegades—a YA space adventure! My name is Collin Frost. I’m a fairly unpopular 17-year-old high school student. This is my story…one that chronicles how my already-dredge-of-a-life went from miserable to totally and irreversibly jacked. I guess I should start at the...

"If I could be half the person my dog is, I’d be twice the human I am." — Charles Yu Moving on from the trauma of combat in Afghanistan, former Green Beret Captain Sam Dale has just begun to settle down in his hometown of Castle Rock, Colorado. Now the owner of several small businesses, he...

The Test Pilot’s Wife is the bittersweet saga of Lura Lee Dunn and WWI flying ace Eugene Hoy Barksdale. Written in the spirit of The Aviator’s Wife and The Second Mrs. Astor, this historical fiction novel features cameos from such notable characters as Jimmy Doolittle and Amelia Earhart. WWI...