The Coral Planet

Does your life really flash before your eyes when death hovers close? Calum wondered as he fought the onrushing horde. His actions purely instinctive, his mind was free to recall the path to his current predicament...

He had his perfect job: he was a Planetary Ranger on Koralia in the remote Dragon's Reach area of the galaxy. The planet's flora and fauna may have been hostile, but he fitted in well with his fellow rangers, and had ready access to the solitude he frequently craved.

Then he'd been asked to give a survival course to a motley group of disaffected cadets, none of whom had much in common with him or each other. He felt ill-equipped to deal with their teenage tantrums and outright hostility.
And that was just the start, as he and his team of misfits faced real threats to their survival from poachers, and now from a trans-dimensional invasion force, with the aid only of a Combat Archaeologist and her team of intelligent cats, representatives of the life he had hoped to avoid.

The Coral Planet is the first book in a Science Fiction epic of struggle, terror and danger set in a galaxy shared by the Eranian Empire, the Terran Union, the Aelumi Confederacy and their many foes.