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Years after the Reaper War, a grieving Kaidan comes into possession of the files Shepard left for him.
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Where Hope Is Left So Incomplete by lottielovebuzz
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
16 Dec 2025
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Nina Shepard has been through a lot in her life. Raised on the streets on Earth, joining the Alliance at 18, fighting to protect Elysium when she had been there on shore leave, N7 training. She does it with a brave face for it has always been her dream to rise in the ranks of the Alliance, but when she's called on a mission at Eden Prime, she finds that things are going to get a whole lot more complicated than she always thought.
First in series of novelisations that'll go through all three games and beyond, focusing on the Fem!Shepard/Garrus Vakarian romance
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- Part 1 of Blood On Your Lies
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Mass Effect: Book II - The Cerberus Chronicles by JShepLord
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
16 Dec 2025
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After waking up in a Cerberus space station, Shepard demands answers and finds out that she had died two years prior with the destruction of the Normandy. With two years of her absence, how will the galaxy react to her returning, and how will she react to what the galaxy has become?
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- Part 3 of Mass Effect Chronicles
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Part three of the Chance Effect series (more summary details to come)
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- Part 3 of Chance Effect
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Knowing how many lives would be extinguished by her choice was a heavy burden, but it was one she was willing to bear for the remaining moments of her life. Shepard had chosen to destroy the Reapers and leave the woman she loved without ever telling the thief her true feelings. It seemed too late now, but sometimes one journey must end for another to begin.
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Duncan Shepard has won and survived the Reaper War, and is giving his first post victory speech after recovery when something from his past comes to haunt him
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- Part 4 of Sacrifice and Redemption
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The Thrilling sequel in my telling of the Mass Effect trilogy.
jump in to see everyone's favourite cast as they glide their way through the events of Mass Effect Two. new characters, races, and factions dot the twin's journey as they race against the clock in an effort to stop the mysterious collectors from abducting human colonists.
it is highly suggested that one reads the first story, 'The Legend of the Shepards', in order to best understand the changes in the plot. otherwise, sit back relax and enjoy the madness
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- Part 2 of Twin Stars
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Order Of Command by Plumppig
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
28 Nov 2025
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Through Aria’s network of secrets and debts, Shepard finds herself face-to-face with an unlikely ally, one she should have left buried with the rest of her past. It’s a setup. It has to be. But curiosity’s a dangerous thing, and some questions don’t stay dead.
What starts as a quiet deal for information becomes an off-the-books mission into the shadows of her own history. Between loyalty and betrayal, love and command, Shepard discovers that the hardest war to win is the one fought against what still lives inside her. -
Unmapped Trajectory by reddawne
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
25 Nov 2025
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Jane Shepard survives the gutters of a post‑Contact Earth until a flare of emerging biotics pulls her into a Council‑funded research institute on the Citadel. There she meets Spectre Saren Arterius, the turian legend whose stalled hunt for Dr. Qian’s Prothean relic drives him to other means of staunching humanity's advancement: guardianship of the human prodigy. Through shrewd persuasion, he takes on the orphan as his ward, intent on shaping her into a model Spectre for Council display, even as he grips the unseen reins in his talons.
Saren turns her childhood days into field drills, war‑room simulations, and lessons in diplomatic knife‑work. He controls nearly every aspect of her life, leaving Shepard one private refuge: a risky friendship with hot‑headed cadet Garrus Vakarian — until her almost-father severs that, too. Learning what it means to be a person proves harder than functioning as a tool, yet Shepard can't help but to question her identity. When the long‑silent Reapers finally stir, Shepard must decide whether she is Saren’s instrument, the Alliance’s champion, or something forged in the tight space between obedience and revolt. The galaxy’s stance — kneeling or standing — will turn on her choice.
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Commander Laureline Shepard - the lone survivor of the Mindoir raid and the hero of Elysium. A chance encounter with ancient technology leads to the unveiling of secrets that go back millions of years, and the discovery of threat to life across the entire galaxy. With a ragtag team assembled Laureline is selected to face and defeat the source of this threat, while facing her own inner demons.
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Miranda and the Illusive Man insisted time and time again that this body was all but identical to the one that had been spaced over Alchera. After spending billions of credits to resurrect her, it would be logical to think they were correct, right? They’d taken two years to bring her back and claimed to have spent thousands of hours rebuilding her. In fact, the Illusive Man and Miranda basically took every opportunity to mention that they’d been painstakingly precise to bring the exact Commander Shepard that died in Alchera’s atmosphere.
They’re lying. They’re lying. They’re lying. The thought was a ceaseless incantation in the back of her mind, raising the fine hairs on the back of her neck.
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Oath of loyalty by etherealend
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2025
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Loyalty: a notion that had always gravitated around Garrus’ life.
“I am loyal to him, as he is loyal to me. And isn’t this the greatest form of love?” Her mother, as the good turian she was, used to say with regard to Castis.
Loyalty. During childhood, boot camp, military service. Loyalty: a virtue every turian was supposed to possess from birth, to the Hierarchy, first and foremost.
Garrus had always, secretly, disagreed. It was something to be earned.
And with her, such had been.
Commander Shepard had secured his deepest loyalty, and only when he saw her for the last time, before the Normandy SR-1 was taken down, did he understand how right his mother was. -
He Wouldn't Hurt Her (Much) by Distressed_Authoress
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
07 Nov 2025
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“I'm not sure if I find him scary or sexy.”
“A lot of women like bad boys.”
“A lot of women... like you?”A human commander brought back from the dead. A drell assassin who considers himself dead. When the two cross paths, things change between them, feelings get complicated and become powerful. Tensions start to rise and half truths are told. No tactic he knows is off the table for her heart.
A plan set, a target to capture, a lover to claim. That is his goal before the end of this mission. And he will do anything to succeed.
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This is a (some could say partially, others could say fully) darker interpretation of the canon romance, though it does stick to canon, many scenes are expanded upon (a few are rewritten either because they don't seem right in canon, or I needed to find a way to fit them) and new ones are made to fully make this story. Characterization of Thane on the other hand, that's ambiguous if you want to consider it canon compliant. Personally I do.
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- Part 1 of An Ardent Assassin's Alarming Attraction
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Before Saren, before the Reapers, there was Akuze.
After suffering through a disastrous first contact with extraterrestrial species, Humanity is finally beginning to settle in amongst the greater galactic community.
One year on from an attack on the crown jewel of Human occupied space, morale has never been higher. But deep within the unexplored outer edge of Alliance space, a pioneer team of settlers have gone dark.
Military officials have secretly authorised their most decorated war hero and N7 operative to investigate the colony and report their findings. They can't do it alone.
They'll need the finest group of Marines ready and able to get the job done, no matter the cost.
But the price paid will affect their lives forever.
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The Reaper War by EvanKnight
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender, Voltron: Lion Force (1984), Voltron Force (2011), Voltron: Vehicle Force (1984), Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect: Andromeda
22 Oct 2025
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Three Years ago, Saren attacked the Citadel with his Geth fleet controlled by Sovereign. Both were stopped by Shepard and Voltron. A later Shepard was killed when the Normandy was shot down. His Ambition was thwarted by the Paladins of Voltron and the remaining crew of the Normandy. Two years ago, Lotor attacked the Citadel to make a weapon of it to destroy the Reapers. One Year Ago, the Collectors under the thrall of a Reaper began the harvest of humans and were destroyed by Voltron and Shepard. In all these events there were three constants, the Reapers, Voltron, and Shepard.
But now the war has come to them, The Reapers begin their harvest and for the first time ever Voltron has been pushed to his limits. A call to arms has been sent it is time for the Galaxy to reclaim what was lost and end this harvest or die trying. Voltron will Reclaim the Universe!
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- Part 5 of The Quintessence Effect
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What is broken can be rebuilt and what is lost can be found. The Normandy is stranded on a distant planet with no idea where it is. EDI is 'dead' and Commander Shepard is missing. While Victory Fleet is stuck in the Sol system. But... the universe as they know it survived and the Reaper threat is dead. Commander Shepard is about to found out more about her past that she had no idea about.
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- Part 1 of Mass Effect: Commander Jane Shepard.
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Vendetta by SomethingProfound
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect - All Media Types
15 Oct 2025
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Total war demands victory at any cost.
After the destruction of the Bahak System, Emilia Shepard returns home just in time for the Reaper invasion. The galaxy finds itself in a race against time: win the war before there's no one left to fight.
ME3, canon-divergent with a focus on milscifi and off-screen moments, multiple POVs, paragade Shepard.
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- Part 9 of A Sea of Stars
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These are the dossiers of MY characters for Mass Effect
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Garrus takes his role watching Shepard's back seriously and refuses to let things end the way they did on Horizon. With a little guilt and a lot of luck, he manages to convince Kaidan to join their hunt for the Collectors. Or Kaidan and Miranda start a game of tug of war and Shepard's the rope
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Commander Alison Jane (AJ) Shepard has lived through more than most: the batarian raid on Mindoir, the slaughter on Akuze, and the ruthless campaign at Torfan. Now, as the galaxy teeters on the edge of annihilation, she faces not only the Reapers but the weight of her past and the choices that threaten to unmake her. This story is a novelization of Mass Effect, following Shepard’s journey through familiar missions, dialogue, and relationships as seen in the game.
As the weight of her decisions threatens to crush her, Shepard is forced to confront the pieces of herself she thought she’d buried. When she finds a shy, innocent, asari maiden trapped in a stasis bubble surrounded by prothean ruins, she finds herself opening up to someone. Balancing the tension of galactic war with fleeting moments of tenderness, Shepard must navigate the fine line between duty and desire, her past and her future. Along the way, old wounds resurface, friendships deepen, and love grows in the unlikeliest of places. But even in the darkest moments, there’s room for humor, hope, and the stubborn defiance that makes Shepard who she is. It is a story of survival, healing, and the relationships that keep us fighting—against all odds.
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- Part 1 of The Way Back Home