Portal Wars Series

When an archaeological dig in the desert of Arizona turns up a mysterious object, the military arrives and swiftly removes it to Area 51. As the object is being tested deep underground, it lets out a brief burst of light at the same moment the United States Military's secure network is overloaded. Within days, a new test at CERN near Geneva results in a terrifying conclusion: a strange portal opens underground and massive, deadly mechs begin coming through. Soon the entire world is in a panic as the advanced machines begin to open other portals all around the planet. Portal Wars #1 is the first novella in a new science fiction serial from Travis Hill. 28,500 words / 90 pages Adult language / violence / mature themes

Erastus.  An unimaginable nightmare.  A searing hot world, covered with cracked, burning deserts and sweltering jungles.  A hostile planet far from Earth, it was the most hellish place men have ever tried to survive.  Called Gehenna by the condemned men sent to fight there, it forged the few who survived its murderous battles into the strongest soldiers in history. Jake Taylor was a New Hampshire farmboy who wanted nothing more than to marry his girlfriend, work on the farm, and maybe one day write a great novel.  But mankind was fighting the alien Tegeri and their bio-mechanical cyborg soldiers, and UN Central needed men…men to go to war on hostile worlds like Erastus. Jake wasn't given a choice, not a real one.  He found himself torn from home and family, conscripted for life and shipped to Erastus to take his place in the battle lines, never to return.  In this alien hell, Taylor and his cybernetically-enhanced comrades fight their never-ending war against the servants of the Tegeri, the manufactured soldiers they call simply, the Machines. Jake survives battle after battle, rising steadily through the ranks, giving all to the desperate fight to save Earth.  But endless combat in hell carries a cost, and Taylor can feel himself losing what little is left of his spirit, his humanity.  When he finally discovers a terrible secret…that everything he'd believed, all he'd fought for his entire life, was nothing but a monstrous lie, he must decide who is the real enemy, and how far he is willing to go to right a horrific wrong. And if he does what he must to prevail against overwhelming odds and win the final victory, will he be able to control the growing madness inside…or will he be become the very thing he has sworn to destroy? Portal Wars Series Book 1:  Gehenna Dawn Book 2:  The Ten Thousand Book 3:  Homefront

The kingdom that had protected him for so many years had now betrayed him. It had torn everything away from him. Now he was alone, and the end was approaching.   Boren is a young man with a past far more mysterious than he realizes. He is now desperate, alone, and on the run. His family has just been slaughtered by the assassins of Ferdul, the usurper king of the island kingdom of Siskail.   Why me?   This is all he keeps thinking. But the answer will not be easy to find. Rescued by one of the last warrior mages, the duo will need to travel far and face their worst nightmare. Little do they know a threat long-forgotten is looming.   Path of the Guardian is the first book in the epic fantasy trilogy Portal Wars.

The Portals.  Ancient and mysterious, the constructs of a long-dead race, they allow instantaneous transit from one world to another, regardless of the distances involved.  When mankind discovered the first Portal on Earth it ushered in an age of exploration, as more and more distant worlds were explored and colonized.  But the dream turned quickly to a nightmare when mankind met the Tegeri…and plunged into half a century of desperate war.   An older race than humanity, the Tegeri had found the Portals first.  Human settlements were attacked, their inhabitants massacred, and just like that, mankind was at war.   But it was all a lie.  The Tegeri weren't hostile; they were waiting to greet mankind and share their technology and knowledge of the Portal network.  A cabal of Earth politicians started the war, seeking to use the fear of a bloodthirsty alien enemy to unite mankind under their totalitarian rule.   After nearly half a century of bloody warfare, one man discovers the truth and swears to destroy the monstrous government that rules over Earth with an iron fist. 

The stunning conclusion to the Portal Wars trilogy…   Jake Taylor and his cyborg soldiers have fought their way from one Portal planet to another, moving steadily homeward with one goal in mind - the utter destruction of the corrupt rulers who sent them to hell to fight and die as pawns in a dishonest war, one started not by the alien enemy, but by Earth's own government, as a tool in its plot to seize total power.   And now, after the fighting, the suffering, the bitter losses…finally, it is time.  Time for the final invasion of Earth.  Time to liberate their homeland from the totalitarian government that controls it utterly, to find those responsible for all that has happened…and to kill them all.   Jake and his warriors are hopelessly outnumbered, but they are determined to battle to the last, to sacrifice all for any hope of victory, however small.  But Taylor and his soldiers are not alone in their fight, for in Earth's shadows, in the rotting slums and the remote countryside, in dark corners and crumbling cellars, a spark of defiance has survived and grown, men and women who remember liberty, and are willing to die for the chance to regain what they lost a generation before.  They are preparing…and waiting.  Waiting for the chance to strike a blow for freedom.   But those who cling to power will not give it up easily.  Indeed, the politicians who run UNGov will see Earth a charred ruin, the dead lying in unburied heaps before they will yield their positions.  The battle is about to begin…and it will not end until only one side remains.   Is Jake Taylor willing to go all the way, to fight to the end, do whatever he must…to accept nothing less than death or total victory, whatever the cost?