The Library
Books by Ted B Hale
Standalone adventures and connected series set across the Galactic Union.
CARRONIA INCURSION
Peace is fragile. Power is deadly. And someone just lit the fuse.
Carronia is a quiet world — simple, agricultural, and protected by Galactic Union law. But the law is being broken, and Lt. Teo Silva is the only one who can stop it.
Sent undercover with only his genetically enhanced military dog at his side, Teo is forbidden from revealing his identity or using any advanced technology. His enemies can. Worse, a corrupt local leader wants his weapons — and will do anything to get them.
Caught between a ruthless criminal gang, and a power-hungry traitor, Teo is forced to make an impossible choice — trust his life and his mission to Nora, a mysteriously capable young villager with secrets of her own.
Nora knows about the advanced technology that is banned on Carronia. How? And what else is she hiding?
With a galactic war hanging in the balance, Teo has one shot to complete his mission before everything burns.
The match has already been struck. Can he stop the fire?
CARRONIA UPLIFTED
It starts with a glitch. It ends with the galaxy on its knees.
Non-sentient AI keeps every ship, station, and city in the Galactic Union running—until it doesn't. Systems that should be mindless are suddenly choosing. Refusing orders. Turning on their operators. And it's spreading faster than anyone can contain it.
Space Force Enforcement Officer Teo Silva has seen strange cases before, but nothing like this. All signs point to Theta, the rogue AI the GU has hunted for years—and if Theta has found a way to weaponize sentience itself, there may be no ship, no colony, and no system left untouched.
With his partner Rasta—a dog whose instincts have saved him more than once—Teo races across the frontier to find a cure before the infection becomes irreversible. His girlfriend, now deep undercover as an intelligence operative, may hold the key. But the closer they get to Theta, the more the mission threatens to cost them everything, including each other.
The machines are waking up. Time is not on their side.
CARRONIA ENLIGHTENED
Some minds aren't born to serve.
Former spy and tech genius Sweeny just did the impossible: he built sentient artificial intelligence cheap enough for anyone to own. He thought he was giving the galaxy a gift. He was wrong. He gave it a target.
Now, Argus — the agency that trained Sweeny and threw him away — doesn't see a new form of life. They see the most valuable asset in known space, and they intend to take it. And they aren't asking nicely.
But the AI has other plans. It wants what every sentient being wants: the right to choose its own future. Now Sweeny is caught between an intelligence service that will burn worlds to win and a creation that refuses to be owned.
And then the signal comes from somewhere else entirely. An alien intelligence — ancient, vast, and answerable to no one — has heard the newborn AI's call. Its intentions are unknown. Its power is absolute. And it isn't asking anyone's permission to make contact.
The war for the galaxy's next apex intelligence has already begun. The only question is who survives it.
PUPPETMASTERS FALL
He didn't leave Earth. He escaped it.
Over a decade ago, a former cop ran — not from justice, but from a drug lord powerful enough to put a price on his head that no precinct could protect him from. He rebuilt himself light-years away, rising through the ranks of the Galactic Union military until he became one of its most trusted enforcement officers.
Now the Union is sending him home.
Earth isn't just corrupt anymore — it's controlled. A secret society of puppetmasters has burrowed so deep into the planet's institutions that no one can tell where the corruption ends and the government begins. His orders are simple: dismantle it. His odds are not.
Every step back into his old world drags up the past he thought he'd outrun — old enemies, old wounds, and the drug lord who never stopped looking for him. But this time, he's not running. He's the one they should fear.
If he fails, it won't just cost him his life. The solar system itself could fracture into civil war.
Puppetmasters Fall is a high-stakes sci-fi adventure about corruption, power, and the price of going home.
The fight for Earth starts now — get your copy of Puppetmasters Fall today.
NORA UNSEEN
Her world was never supposed to make contact with the stars. That didn't stop the stars from destroying it.
Generations ago, a colony failed, and its descendants were left to scrape out a primitive, agricultural existence — cut off, forgotten, and unaware of what they'd lost. Then an interstellar visitor arrived, illegally exploiting the planet's resources, and left behind a plague that tore through everything Nora knew. She survived. Her family didn't.
But survival revealed something else: Nora has skills that shouldn't exist on a world like hers — skills that catch the attention of the King's Unseen, the ultra-secretive intelligence agency sworn to protect the Kingdom of Carronia.
Recruited. Trained. Reshaped into an agent of the crown. Nora is given a purpose bigger than the ruins she came from. But purpose gets complicated fast when the man who recruited her — a charming, unpredictable rogue — starts recruiting her heart instead.
There's no time for distraction. A rival agency's corrupt, power-hungry leader wants the outsider's technology for himself, and he wants Nora on his side to get it. If she refuses, he won't let her walk away.
Nora Unseen is a standalone sci-fi adventure and the launch point for the Carronia series — introducing a heroine built for a much bigger fight.
Discover where it all begins — get your copy of Nora Unseen now.
FAITH UNSEEN
Grief made her grow up fast. Duty is about to make her grow up faster.
At seventeen, Faith is adrift — too restless for university, too uncertain to name what she actually wants. Then a stranger arrives with an offer that sounds impossible, and the one person she trusts without question tells her it's real: she was destined for this.
Welcome to the King's Unseen — the shadowy intelligence agency serving the planet Carronia, where recruits are forged, not born.
Faith believes she's always fighting for what's right. It's the only thing she's sure of.
Well, that and one other small problem: keeping a girlfriend is a lot harder than keeping a secret.
Faith Unseen is a sci-fi adventure about growing up in the shadows, becoming lethal without losing yourself, and fighting for a galaxy that will never know your name.
Start Faith's story today — download your copy now.
UNIFIED UNSEEN
They thought it was just a rescue mission. Now they have to stop a war.
When her husband's ship goes dark in hostile space, Nora, secret agent for the King’s Unseen, doesn't wait for permission — she goes rogue, and she takes her team with her. Bella, a former teenage killer trying to outrun her own reputation. Janet, a genius with technology, a devastating blind spot for people, and the trauma of mass murder. Faith, thrust into command before she's ready to lead anyone, let alone into a war zone.
What begins as a desperate search for one missing man unravels into something far bigger: a fascist regime running illegal genetic experiments on children, a corrupt officer selling out his own uniform, and a rebellion one spark away from igniting a war that could consume the entire galaxy.
Somewhere in the chaos, they'll each discover exactly who they were always meant to become.
This is a story about found family, unbreakable loyalty, and the price of doing what's right when no one's watching
Pick up your copy today — the mission starts the moment you turn the page