Aeolus Investigations takes place against the backdrop of an 8,000-year-old space-threading civilization consisting of a dozen planets, loosely bound by a contract named the Accord. As an outsider looking in, Lexi observes that the Accord has stagnated, both technologically and socially.

Lexi calls it the “Accord Disease.” — She’s the cure. One no one saw coming…

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Stowaway (Episode 1) In 2026, Lexi Stevens, a 24-year-old student working toward a doctorate, stows away on a small starship belonging to Geena and Ron Samue, a mother/son team of insurance investigators. Join Lexi and the team as they recover, and fight for, the stolen Rose of Light of Ackalon. Getting it home proved more of a challenge than any of them expected.

Published December 16th, 2019.

Avenger (Episode 2) The team intended to spend the money earned from their prior job on remodeling their starship. Plans change. They rush off to Borgol and from there to Naragene Nine to solve the kidnapping of their newest client’s family. In the process, they uncover a wide-ranging conspiracy. Is it more than the team can handle? I don’t think so!

Published December 24th, 2019.

Paladin (Episode 3) Good news! The Aeolus team managed to get their ship remodeled before Lexi is kidnapped by pirates wanting technology she developed in Episode 2. Another rescue mission, this time to save one of their own. When they come across a woman from an unknown human race, held captive on a pirate ship that tries to stop them, the surprises, and the danger, build.

Published January 15th, 2020

Episodes 1, 2, and 3 (including the bonus short story, Ferris Wheel) are available in Born to Win: The Improbable Adventures of Lexi Stevens.

Gambler (Episode 4) Just another day. Just another job. The Aeolus team accepts a job to investigate the strange situation on the most technologically inept of the twelve Accord member worlds. The problem they uncover is appalling. Their efforts to resolve it are extraordinary.


Published March 21st, 2020

Gladiator (Episode 5) The team returns to Cardin’s Paradise to pick up a new job in an attempt to return to their roots as insurance investigators. Eventually, they find themselves in pursuit of a pirate ship and the stolen Vankovian biological specimens they were hired to recover. At the point where they catch up to the ship, the job goes bizarrely wrong. “Sideways” doesn’t begin to describe it.

Published May 1st, 2020

Episodes 4 and 5 (including the bonus short story, Geena’s Story) are available in Too Cool to Lose: The Continuing Evolution of Lexi Stevens.

Shaman (Episode 6) After a stressful decade gearing up the Accord to battle an invading species, Lexi and Ron take a well-deserved vacation. What interests the two most famous people in the Accord, two people who want to get out of the limelight for a spell? Exploring new worlds. Their vacation turns out far less relaxing than either of them hoped.

Published May 29th, 2020

Mom (Episode 7) The Rose of Insight, the Barossa Channel, and the Heart of Curdal, are all ancient artifacts that have greatly affected the growth of Lexi Stevens and those around her. On the trail of a fourth, Lexi is captured by a previously unknown race having less than noble intentions. If she and her son’s Aeolus team can’t resolve the situation, Ron and Urania are dead.

Published September 4th, 2020

Episodes 6 and 7 (including the bonus short story, Jis Boc Seckan) are available in Emergency Response Protocol: Lexi Stevens Protector of the Accord.

Samurai (Episode 8) The situation is confusing. Lexi wakes from a coma to a world that seems off. She’s told she’s 29 and has been in a coma since she was 4. That would explain why she doesn’t remember her 14-year-old sister, Alexa Stevens. It doesn’t explain much else though. And, the big question in her mind is — where’s Ron?


Published December 15th, 2020

Archaeologist (Episode 9) Two years after finding Allie, Lexi arranges a working vacation in Peru with her perky sister at an archaeological dig. Things get tense when, along with the dig director, Steve O’Reilly, they’re trapped by a cave-in. What caused the cave-in that shattered Lexi’s legs? Does Allie stand a chance at romance with Steve? And why is an alien warship sitting on Steve’s dig site?

Published February 19th, 2021

Guardian (Episode 10) For her eighteenth birthday, Lexi Stevens gives her sister, Allie, a sentient starship named Caerus. She never envisioned the havoc that would follow due to that gift as Allie takes her new Aeolus team searching for Lexi’s real mother, a woman Lexi presumed to be dead.


Published June 18th, 2021

Witch (Episode 11) Does it come as a surprise that Lexi and Ron got out of the Dark Space? On Eloisa where the most advanced technology is indoor plumbing, Lexi and Ron battle corrupt royalty and wizards — yes, real magic-wielding wizards — in the defense of a little girl, a world, and possibly, all of us.


Published July 2nd, 2021

Synthetic (Episode 12) As Marshal of the ever-expanding Accord, one of Lexi Stevens’s most important responsibilities is to train additional Aeolus teams. Her son Crane is now fifteen. Lexi takes him and his future team on a diplomatic training mission to the newly discovered planet of Cryton where the unusual inhabitants just want to keep them “safe.”

Published July 30th 2021

Protector (Episode 13) There is always work to be done. No one could wait around for Lexi to get back from the Dark Universe. Learn what Allie Stevens, as acting Marshal of the Accord, had to deal with. Some of this takes place prior to Synthetic, some after.


Published November 24th, 2021

Christine (Episode 14) Lexi and Ron had to run off to Eloisa. Crane and his team are out in deep space somewhere. Jis is on Storm Gate serving as the acting Marshal of the Accord. That leaves 19-year-old Christine Samue and her hurriedly assembled team to deal with this newest crisis.


Published January 14th, 2022

Apollo (Episode 15) As children do, Crane Samue grew up. Now, Lexi’s son leads a team of Aeolus troubleshooters on a mission to locate — and stop — a bunch of aliens who burn off populated worlds for fun.



Published February 4th, 2022

Elista (Episode 16) Crane and his Aeolus Investigations team continue the search for the Karg — perhaps the nastiest species of life in the galaxy. Certainly the nastiest the Accord has encountered so far.



Published August 19th, 2022

Empress (Episode 17) With episode 15, Apollo, the series has two branching story lines. Christine has been missing for around 12 years. During that time, Crane and his team encountered the Karg. In Episode 17, the two branches merge in the grand finale of the Aeolus Investigations series.


Published December 17th, 2022.