Alan Black Books in Order

Asteroid miner Chastity Snowden Whyte prefers solitude aboard her ship, but equipment trouble and inexperienced newcomers disrupt her routine. Corporate schemes, piracy, kidnapping, and murder draw her into conflicts that extend far beyond extracting metal and ice.

Combat veteran Hamisha McPherson receives command of a neglected armored infantry unit shortly before deployment. Turning undisciplined soldiers into an effective force becomes urgent as war intensifies and dangerous secrets surround their approaching battle with alien enemies.

Harpo, an escaped orangutan, and his human companion Carl try to stay ahead of an increasingly complicated pursuit. Zoo security, police, an attorney general, and drug dealers all become involved in their unpredictable adventure.

Teenage naval cadet Blackmon Perry Stone uncovers thieves aboard his ship and is abandoned in hyperspace to die. His improvised escape strands him on an unknown planet, where surviving may be only the first challenge.

Twelve-year-old LillieBeth Hazkit believes kindness can reach anyone in the 1920 Ozarks. Her determination to befriend an isolated old neighbor challenges that faith, drawing her into dangers that force her to grow up faster than she expected.

Searching for missing cattle from her small herd, Libby Winrow encounters far worse trouble. Injured and stranded on foot, she must contend with wolves and the arrival of a freezing winter night that threatens her survival.

Fired, evicted, and shunned without cause, schoolteacher Susanne Harbowe turns to young LillieBeth Hazkit for help. Together they pursue the men who ruined Susanne’s life, seeking justice and a future beyond the community’s judgment.

After her husband’s murder, Grace Grissom discovers how little protection widows receive in the 1920 Ozarks. With the killers still free and lawmen unwilling to act, she joins LillieBeth Hazkit in a dangerous pursuit of justice.

After his grandfather’s death, sixteen-year-old Tasso Menzies is sent to apprentice aboard a space freighter crewed by Texicans. While adapting to unfamiliar customs and life in space, he worries that his absence will cost him his inheritance.

After years of abuse and institutional injustice, York August Sixteen finds himself isolated on a remote communications station. His determination to help people worse off than himself sets him on a new path in search of justice.

Alan Black guides beginning novelists from an initial idea through a finished story. He discusses generating material, overcoming writer’s block, sustaining progress, and choosing an ending, including approaches that free writers from working in strict narrative order.

In the Ozarks of 1925, LillieBeth Hazkit takes in people who have nowhere else to turn. Her determination to live by her faith draws her into dangerous confrontations with moonshiners, racists, and horse thieves threatening her growing household.

Taken in by LillieBeth Hazkit, Mercy hopes to escape the rejection she has faced as a Black former prostitute. Racist vigilantes and hostility within her new household test whether she can find courage and build a safer life.

Leota Wikoff escapes her abusive father and accompanies LillieBeth Hazkit into Arkansas to pursue horse thieves. As they confront the men who stole LillieBeth’s horses, Leota must reconsider her selfishness and her place among her protector’s unlikely companions.

Blackmon Perry Stone hopes for a shipboard posting but receives an assignment on a planet instead. When alien enemies overrun the base, he is left wounded and hunted in the open, confronting the environment he fears most.

Disgraced and discharged from the navy, Stone takes a seemingly minor job aboard an old family freighter. As he tries to regain trust, political and family agendas pull him toward a dangerous confrontation at the edge of human space.

Kansas cattle farmer Larry eagerly accepts a ride with visiting aliens, then discovers their species faces annihilation. Barely tolerated by his hosts and denied crucial information, he must figure out why they believe he can save them.

When mutineers seize the White Wind, its captain is stranded with an infuriating passenger. Recovering his ship requires finding his scattered crew, crossing dangerous unknown territory, and confronting dragons, hostile peoples, and a magician.

Blackmon Perry Stone faces another deadly alien encounter, using his armored combat suit to protect a vulnerable young survivor. This continuation of his military adventures pits his quick reactions against a creature capable of tearing its victims apart.