1. redshift

The portal that appeared in what was once open space on the edge of the Joias System should be impossible. So should the alien capsule that came through it.
What’s inside the capsule is even more unbelievable—proof that the aliens have a cure for a disease that's killed millions. And proof that they want to communicate.
Aran Romeu, a field-scientist desperate to save his dying friend, will do anything to reach that cure.
Alba Espina, the system's Chief Justice, sees the portal as her last chance to secure a political gamble that could reshape civilization—if her enemies don't destroy her first.
Savina Moya, an assassin on the run, sees the portal as her only escape from the government agent sent to kill her.
Three people thrown together on a mission into the unknown. Different agendas. Deadly secrets.
And no idea if the aliens who sent the invitation plan to save humanity… or end it.Redshift is the first book in R.M. Olson's Singularity series, full of action, twisty politics, and diverse, unforgettable characters.

The singularity series

2. the observer effect

They've made it through the portal. Now they have to survive what they find on the other side ...

After a disaster leaves their diplomatic ship destroyed and the ragged survivors numbering only dozens, Ambassador Alba Espina’s mission goes from negotiating a political alliance with a previously uncontacted sapient species, to trying desperately to keep the tiny band of survivors alive in a hostile alien environment.
Surviving first contact with the aliens is hard enough. But it soon becomes apparent that these aliens are hiding something they’re willing to kill to keep secret. The desperate remnants of the crew is looking to Alba to save them, and searching for answers risks their survival. But now that both species knows the other exists, if Alba doesn’t find out what the aliens are hiding, she risks the survival of every human in the Joias System.

3. uncertainty principle

Between hostile aliens politics and hungry alien predators, the Joias System diplomatic corps—and all of humanity—is in deadly peril. 
The only way the motley group of human survivors, led by former diplomat Alba Espina, can prevent a massacre is to destroy the aliens' portal mechanism. But for a rag-tag party more skilled in diplomacy than demolition, stranded in an unfamiliar system, with both human and alien soldiers on their trail after their desperate escape from the aliens' capital—it seems like an impossible task.
And those aren’t the only complications. There are other aliens in this system as well, ones that see humans not as enemies, but as prey. They're apex predators, and once they're on the hunt, they never let up. And they’ve caught the humans’ scent …

4. quantum entanglement

Two hundred human refugees are about to be slaughtered. There’s an assassin on the loose. And an alien leadership war has just broken out, with humans at the centre of it. The day just keeps getting better …

Despite all odds, the rag-tag human diplomatic party, led by Chief Justice Alba Espina, has been rescued and granted asylum by the yibo government. But they’re not in the clear yet—with yibo sentiment turning against humans, Alba will have to use every bit of skill and acumen she’s gained over her lifetime in politics to not only keep herself and her friends alive, but to save the captive survivors of the diplomatic ship who are still stranded in hostile territory. And even with every skill Alba can bring to bear, that may not be possible without the help of the charming young assassin who, the last time Alba saw her, was threatening to slit Alba’s throat.

In the meantime, field-scientist Aran Romeu is in a race against time to save his friend before the raider crew who’s taken them prisoner decides his friend is more useful as a meal than a hostage. On the plus side, Aran has an enthusiastic raider captain and an eccentric raider scientist on his side. On the minus side, he has no damn idea what he’s doing ...

5. Event horizon

They’re trapped in the middle of an alien war—and their only hope of salvation is from the most unlikely of sources.

With the survivors of the diplomatic ship finally safe, head diplomat and former Chief Justice Alba Espina can at last turn her attention to finding them a way home.

Or so she thinks.

And then the vicious raiders who hunt the edges of the alien system turn their sights on the alien capital, and once again, human lives are a potential bargaining chip for the aliens’ survival. Now, as Alba struggles to convince the aliens that humanity is worth saving, charming assassin Savina Maya and the government agent sent to hunt her down are thrust into a desperate, brutal guerrilla war to protect the human settlements and take down the aliens and raiders arrayed against them.

In the meantime, field-scientist Aran Romeu has finally found the cure he’s been desperately searching for—but doing so required him to sign on as raider crew. Now he’s got to find a way to keep his exceptionally bloodthirsty raider captain from burning the entire system to the ground, before everyone he cares about is killed.

6. point singularity

When the human and alien worlds collide, it’s anyone’s guess if there will be survivors.

Chief Justice Alba Espina never expected to see her home system again. But the return of the diplomatic mission survivors to the Joias system may not be as peaceful as they’d hoped. Alba’s political rival, General Cavaco, has used her absence to stoke citizens’ fears and prejudices of an alien invasion - and he’s gunning for a war that Alba knows he can’t win. Between Cavaco’s political machinations, suspicious aliens, and an uprising in the Rim Moutains, Alba, Savina, and the others will face their biggest challenge yet: preventing the utter destruction of the Joias System.

In the meantime, Aran has problems of his own: he has the cure to his best friend’s fatal illness, but he can’t implement it without Joias technology. He’s got to figure out a way to keep his unconscious best friend alive until they reach Villa Nova do Sol, keep his pet land-devil from killing everyone who looks at him sideways, and keep the charak space-parasite from completing a murderous take-over of the raiders’ minds. Oh, and keep the raiders from slaughtering their way through the Joias system anyway.

prequel:

Ani, or the care and feeding of your great tree-dwelling venomous tentacled land-devil

Watching the hatching of a great tree-dwelling venomous tentacled land-devil has been field-scientist Aran Romeu’s dream for as long as he can remember. And if land-devils are the most dangerous creatures known to humankind, and this whole thing might be a set-up from someone who wants to kill him, and there’s a very good chance neither he nor his research assistant and best friend Istvay will come out of this alive … well, he and Istvay have never let something like that stop them before.