Schism Universe Series by Mark Alders

David Walker Craven hauls freight for Red Star Haulage. He had done so for five long, lonely years with only a sarcastic, sexually deprived computer as company. Her name is Miranda, the bane of his existence, but the one he depends on the most as well. Everything seems to be going along swimmingly, David's plans of retiring on a desert island once he has saved up enough money looks to be in the bag... moreDavid Walker Craven hauls freight for Red Star Haulage. He had done so for five long, lonely years with only a sarcastic, sexually deprived computer as company. Her name is Miranda, the bane of his existence, but the one he depends on the most as well. Everything seems to be going along swimmingly, David's plans of retiring on a desert island once he has saved up enough money looks to be in the bag. After each successful haul his dream moves one step closer to reality and all he left behind fades into memory. Until Miranda detects a life form on board. A stowaway. David is soon embroiled in a series of events that involves a dead young man, a legendary being called a shifter and an alien race that scares the spit out of him. Can he survive the events that unravel? Or will his past, present and future catch up with him in ways he couldn't have expected? In ways that will change everything...forever. less

Sarge is a hard as nails construction worker—as rough and tough and as well built as they come. All is well in his life. He’s a softy in the arms of Hayden. He’s a man deeply in love. One who’s touched by his angel on every level, which is a far cry from how he acts in front of everyone else. Life is perfect. What could possibly go wrong? Sarge is told the truth about Hayden—his angel is a peacock shifter from the doomed Boonta colony wiped out years ago by the Schism... moreSarge is a hard as nails construction worker—as rough and tough and as well built as they come. All is well in his life. He’s a softy in the arms of Hayden. He’s a man deeply in love. One who’s touched by his angel on every level, which is a far cry from how he acts in front of everyone else. Life is perfect. What could possibly go wrong? Sarge is told the truth about Hayden—his angel is a peacock shifter from the doomed Boonta colony wiped out years ago by the Schism. What's more, the Schism know this, too, and they are on the hunt. Will his angel become nothing but a legend like all the other shifters over the eons? less

Kirk is a rich young man, partying on his eighteenth and filled with Atlantica Dream, the drug that makes the user experience such heightened sensuality that even looking at someone else is to make love to them. But when he wakes, he's not in his affluent neighbourhood at all. He's at the Mattock Markets, Ardross Major's largest slave trade arena and he is to be sold to the highest bidder... moreKirk is a rich young man, partying on his eighteenth and filled with Atlantica Dream, the drug that makes the user experience such heightened sensuality that even looking at someone else is to make love to them. But when he wakes, he's not in his affluent neighbourhood at all. He's at the Mattock Markets, Ardross Major's largest slave trade arena and he is to be sold to the highest bidder. Being handsome, well hung and unblemished because of his upbringing, he's expected to fetch a high price. Kirk soon discovers that power and money don't mean a thing on the outer worlds of the system, and his new owner, an alien called the Schism who can bend the laws of the universe, uses him as bait in a trap for shifters. A notion he finds worse than being sold as an object. Kirk is soon engaged in a race against time as he escapes from the Schism and sets out to warn a fledgling colony of platypus shifters who have been detected by the space amplifier. But what he discovers about why he ended up in the Mattock Markets will change the course of his life forever. Not only must he survive to help so many others, he must become a man, too. less