Scions Universe Short Story Collection 1

By Jack Shilkaitis

THREE STORIES. ONE UNIVERSE.

The Scions Universe spans generations, empires, and genres. This collection is where it begins.

In First Board, Commander Jerald Norim holds the second chair aboard the CSS Intrepid - competent, controlled, and quietly falling apart. When command changes hands without warning, duty and everything he's neglected collide at once.

In Blood & Iron, the Grakhon didn't just conquer Ceron - they took its soldiers and turned them into something worse than dead. Alex Kaine was a marine. Now he's one of the Chosen, a weapon with no will of his own. Humanity's only hope may be turning that weapon back around.

In Paid in Full, Captain James Kahill knows there are only two kinds of jobs: the ones that pay, and the ones that waste your time. With a ship held together by spite, a crew that shouldn't work on paper, and a one-eyed terrier as his closest companion, he's about to take one of the bad ones anyway.

Command under fire. Grimdark survival. Cynical space-western heart.

Three stories. Three ways into a universe that's only getting bigger.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H8C9PVHJ
• ISBN13: 9798185900758
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"