Sometimes there is no difference between a hero and a traitor... Timothy Val wants nothing more than to serve the Senjelian Empire. As captain of the ranks, he has sworn his life to protect and serve, a fact that brings him honor among his people and those under his command. But the butchery of prisoners is not war. When his objection to the slaughter of unarmed men backfires, Timothy is branded a traitor. Striped of his rank, dignity and sanity, his only hope of regaining his lost honor and clearing his family name rests in the hands of a political revolution orchestrated by a senator he is unsure he can trust. With an intergalactic war looming and civil unrest spreading through the empire, Timothy is faced with the most difficult tasks of his life. Will he find a way to remain loyal to the empire? Or will that loyalty cost him the one thing he craves most...? His honor. Aftermath is the first in a series of epic space operas. If you love epic tales of empresses and princes, soldiers and mercenaries, senators and slaves, then you don't want to miss E.A Copen's brand new series: Broken Empire!

****If you'd like the published work as a whole, please visit my website (www.denisegroverswank.com) for purchase links.**** Sixteen year old Julia Phillips buries herself in guilt after killing her best friend Monica in a car accident. Julia awoke in the hospital with a broken leg, a new talent for drawing and false memories of the accident, in which she dies and Monica lives. The doctors attribute this to her head injury, but no one can explain how a bracelet engraved with her name ended up at the scene of the accident. A bracelet no one has ever seen before. Classmate Evan Whittaker paid Julia no attention before the accident, let alone after. Now suddenly he’s volunteering to tutor her and offering to drive her home. She can't ignore that his new obsession started after his two-day disappearance last week and that he wears a pendant she’s been drawing for months. When the police show up one night looking for Evan, he begs Julia to run with him, convincing her that Monica is still alive. Julia agrees to go, never guessing where he’s really from.

On his 18th birthday, a young man learns his father is still alive and sets out to find him. Along the way he learns a great deal more about his father's past and himself than he might ever have imagined.