Aaron Hodges Books in Order

Long before the main trilogy, Enala grows restless in exile and desperate for a life beyond the forest. Her search for freedom leads her toward the Gold Dragons and the first shape of legend.

Devastated by loss, Liz turns her rage on the government in a one-woman war. But as the Chead spread and the state tightens its grip, vengeance starts to look a lot like suicide.

Chris is dragged into a secret mountain facility after his family is branded traitorous. Inside the Praegressus Project, survival means enduring brutal experiments and learning how little separates people from monsters.

Chris and Liz survive the project, only to wake changed, faster, stronger, and winged. Lost in the wilderness with the Chead hunting nearby, they must master what they have become before it destroys them.

On the run and mourning one of their own, Chris and the other renegades search for allies against an all-powerful regime. Meanwhile, the Chead are multiplying, and their revenge is getting closer.

The government is falling, but that only opens the door to a larger fight for humanity's survival. Chris, Liz, and the scattered renegades must face betrayal, the Chead, and a leader willing to reach for nuclear fire.

Liz and Chris have escaped the facility, but freedom is messy when the whole state wants them back. With new abilities and ugly truths in hand, they gamble on exposing the regime before it erases them.

Alana escapes, wounded and alone, only to run into family she trusts even less than the Tsar. As Devon protects her brother and the enemy closes in, the struggle turns toward open war.

When her brother's magic is discovered, Alana is forced to flee a kingdom where sorcery means death. Hunted by the Tsar's agents, she and disgraced warrior Devon are pulled into a struggle over power and survival.

Captured by the Tsar, Alana uncovers terrible truths about her past and the power locked inside her. Devon, now marked by bloodshed, tries to spark rebellion before she is lost for good.

Escaping the Knights is only the start for Pela, who finds abandoned lands and an older darkness waiting in Trola. While she looks for answers, King Braidon scrambles to stop a magical queen from taking everything.

After fanatical knights raid her village and seize her mother, seventeen-year-old Pela sets out on a rescue with almost no skills and no real plan. Her best hope is Devon, an aging warrior who thought his battles were over.

Pela endures slavery in the mines while searching for a way to fight back. Elsewhere, a fallen king and a usurping queen turn the wider war into a bloodier, more personal struggle.

A practical, grounded guide to traveling the world alone. Aaron Hodges mixes advice, encouragement, and lived experience for readers thinking about taking the solo route themselves.

In a future America ruled by the Western Allied States, Liz is abducted into a brutal human-enhancement program. Trapped beside accused traitor Chris, she learns the monsters outside may not be the worst threat.

Liz has lost almost everything, but the war is still growing. As the altered renegades face betrayal, the Chead, and a collapsing nation, survival alone is no longer enough.

Lukys flees toward the sea with the Tangata closing in, only to find new conflict waiting at home. Erika reaches the City of the Gods and learns that divine help may be far harder to win than she hoped.

Young soldier Lukys is sent to a desperate frontier war against the Tangata and quickly learns bravery is not enough. At the same time, a royal archivist digs beneath the earth for lost godly power.

Captured by the Tangata, Lukys uncovers a secret that could change the war, if he can escape alive. Erika, hunted and cornered, must gamble her freedom on enemies she has every reason to fear.

On alien-ruled Talamh, street kid Rydian Holt is thrown into the arena after his mother is tied to a resistance group. Survival means brutal combat, dangerous secrets, and a chance to strike back at the Alfur.

Lukys, Sophia, and Erika return to a world already breaking under invasion, betrayal, and civil war. If they cannot unite humanity fast, the Tangata and the Gods' betrayal may finish what the Fall began.

The Gods have fallen and Archon is on the move. As Enala fights grief and betrayal, Eric pushes to master his deadly magic before the Three Nations collapse into chaos.

After defeating one of the Alfur, Rydian is cast into Talamh's wildlands with unstable power burning inside him. If he cannot master the Light and survive the Haze, his fragile hope of freedom dies with him.

With his sister stolen by the Soul Blade and Gabriel trapped in darkness, Eric faces his hardest fight yet. Time is running out, and saving the people he loves may demand a price he cannot bear.

Eric has spent two years hiding from the storm magic that ruined his life. When he tries to start over, he walks straight into a larger war where gods, darkness, and his curse all want a claim on him.

Retired master thief Zachary Sicario is dying when rumors spread of a new island and a power that can change fate. One last expedition might save his life, if rivals and ancient magic do not kill him first.

Talamh has been liberated, but Rydian returns to find humans treating the fallen Alfur much as the Alfur treated them. With a larger empire closing in, he must uncover deeper truths before one conquest simply replaces another.

Community college slacker Patrik Conroy is yanked into a game-like fantasy world just in time for his wizard guide to die. Now he has dead friendly spiders, angry villagers, and no idea what he is supposedly meant to save.

Mikael Heaton wakes in a world that hates offworlders and runs on impossible magic. With broken memories and powerful enemies closing in, he has to build alliances fast or vanish before he learns who he really is.

After helping the Highland clans survive one invasion, Mikael faces a far larger war and a prophecy with his name on it. To save his new allies, he must seek rebellion in enemy territory and master powers he barely understands.

Now hunted for her Gift, Kaila joins a desperate underground resistance against the Magisterium. When a plan emerges to steal the powerful Aegis, she and her allies stake everything on one reckless heist.

Kaila Dwyn has spent her life preparing to join the Wardens, until a thief named Theron ruins everything. Framed for a crime and cut off from the world she trusted, she must decide what justice really means.