Alan Burt Akers Books in Order

Dray Prescot is taken from Earth to Kregen by powerful beings pursuing their own plans. Amid unfamiliar peoples and rival forces, he must decide whether to remain a pawn or take a more independent role.

Dray Prescot's wish to reach Princess Delia conflicts with his duty to protect the ruler of Vallia's enemies. Pirate swordships add another danger, forcing him to navigate competing loyalties on his journey across Kregen.

Dray Prescot returns to Kregen wanting to find Princess Delia, but the Star Lords and Savanti have other plans. Slavery and conflict around the Inland Sea stand between his personal search and the mysterious task imposed on him.

The Star Lords send Dray Prescot on a mission to carry Princess Delia home by airboat. Crossing Kregen's hostile mountains and jungles brings unfamiliar peoples and dangers that stand between the travelers and the kingdom of Vallia.

Dray Prescot's mission on Havilfar remains unfinished when he faces captivity in a queen's arena. Forced into gladiatorial combat against fighters and monsters, he must survive while the Star Lords wait for him to resume their work.

The Star Lords place Dray Prescot among human captives hunted by manhounds on Kregen's southern continent. He must rescue someone from the terrified group, but first he has to discover whom his mysterious masters intend him to save.

Dray Prescot finally reaches Vallia, hoping to claim a future with Princess Delia. Instead of receiving a hero's welcome, he becomes an unknown outsider and condemned slave, facing political intrigues that threaten the goal he has pursued across Kregen.

Dray Prescot heads home with information about Vallia's enemies, but the Star Lords have not released him from their mission. Sea raiders, an enemy swordsman, and an underground cult interrupt the journey and threaten his hopes of reunion.

Investigating the aircraft-making empire of Hamal, Dray Prescot builds friendships among the people he is spying on. Protecting its queen pulls him between personal loyalty and his duty to Vallia, placing both his mission and survival at risk.

The Star Lords require Dray Prescot to discover how Havilfar's advanced aircraft work. Hunted across the continent and lacking scientific expertise, he must uncover the secret before he can return to Princess Delia and his adopted home.

Armies from Havilfar move against Vallia, bringing war to Dray Prescot's adopted homeland. Defending the empire requires him to solve the secrets of the enemy's air fleets as the competing peoples of Kregen enter a struggle for survival.

Outcast from the Krozairs, Dray Prescot returns to the slaving city of Magdag, where even former allies may kill him. To recover his standing and return to his family, he must attempt a dangerous act against the city's power.

Dray Prescot cannot answer the Krozairs' call for help because the Star Lords block his return from Earth. Seeking redemption brings him into conflict with armies and kingdoms, with the tides of Kregen's seven moons offering an unexpected resource.

Enslaved at the oars of a Magdagian galley, Dray Prescot struggles to regain his freedom and standing. Reunited with fellow prisoners, he faces a widening conflict around the Inland Sea while trying to return to those he loves.

A mysterious monster cult undermines the Vallian Empire and draws Princess Delia into its schemes. Dray Prescot must confront the hidden forces behind the threat, challenging powers that have previously treated him as their instrument on Kregen.

Treason at court, rebel armies, and enemy fleets converge against Vallia. Dray Prescot faces a scientist's destructive schemes while defending his family and homeland, with his own warrior daughter Dayra fighting among the forces opposed to him.

With Vallia conquered, Dray Prescot claims its fallen throne and begins a mission to liberate the empire. He must confront the enemies occupying his adopted homeland while seeking allies capable of turning resistance into a struggle for recovery.

Dray Prescot searches Kregen's unmapped regions for the hidden city of the Savanti. An attack on Delia's father makes the search urgent, forcing him toward the beings who first brought him from Earth and their conflict with the Star Lords.

Exiled in Jikaida City, Dray Prescot needs to return to his endangered homeland. Instead he enters a treasure hunt through a haunted valley's illusion-filled catacombs, where the promise of wealth threatens the lives and sanity of those who follow.

Dray Prescot inherits the remains of a shattered empire and tries to restore freedom to its peoples. With Delia and companions beside him, he faces enemy fleets, armies, and a scientist's schemes, while his daughter Dayra stands among his opponents.

Dray Prescot's struggle to reconquer Vallia becomes a deadly version of the chesslike game Jikaida. In Jikaida City's arena, he is forced to serve as a living piece, with each move risking bloodshed and consequences beyond the board.

Dray Prescot must fight his way home from Jikaida City across hostile skies and seas. Vallia's defenders face superior forces and his son is in danger, making his return essential to battles that demand his presence in different places.

Dray Prescot rallies Vallia's warriors against the enemies surrounding them, then sets out alone to rescue three old friends from slavery. The journey takes him into a distant land where dangerous creatures compound the risks of his mission.

On the island kingdom of Hyrklana, Dray Prescot sets out to overthrow a tyrannical queen and free the princess with the rightful claim to rule. Leading rebellion against the cruel Arena brings him into conflict with swordsmen and sorcerers.

After a devastating war ends on Kregen, Dray Prescot confronts the Star Lords again. He discovers that the peace he helped secure is threatened by a major invasion already approaching from another hemisphere, forcing him toward a new struggle.

Dray Prescot gathers old allies and former enemies to challenge Empress Thyliss at her capital after her armies devastate Kregen. Their campaign faces a new danger when she prepares to unleash the technological powers of the mad Wizard of Loh.

Delia of Vallia, leader of the Sisters of the Rose, pursues Jilian for betraying her oath and empress. Her search for justice leads through intrigue and combat toward a confrontation in a hidden arena on Kregen.

An old conspiracy draws Dray Prescot to the jungle continent of Pandahem despite the defeat of his former enemies. Beneath its swamps, the labyrinth of Coup Blag conceals a new opponent threatening his efforts to bring peace to Kregen.

The Star Lords abandon Dray Prescot without weapons outside the temple of the Leem. Rescuing a sacrificial victim draws him into a campaign against the cult's temples while fish-headed raiders bring another threat from Kregen's Southern Hemisphere.

Dray Prescot must finish destroying the Leem cult while preparing Kregen's forces for an invasion from the south. Rescuing kidnapped children forces him to fight alongside his estranged daughter Ros the Claw, who has sworn to kill him.

Ordered to destroy the Silver Leem cult, Dray Prescot works undercover on an enemy island despite being emperor of Vallia. With his daughter Ros and a band of pirates, he enters the order's capital and encounters treachery behind its masks.

Seg, Dray Prescot's archer companion, becomes protector of the mysterious Milsi on an enemy island. Defending her claim to a royal inheritance pits him against dangerous creatures and opponents determined to prevent her from reaching her rightful position.

Crown Prince Drak leads an army against the usurper Alloran while an allied queen pressures him into marriage. His love for Silda complicates the campaign when he discovers she commands guards fighting for the enemy.

Dray Prescot battles a would-be king of North Vallia while defending his empire against the witch Csitra and her son. Entering her Maze of Coup Blag with his companions exposes them to traps and a deadly contest of sorcery.

Dray Prescot returns to his wife, friends and empire only to discover that defeated enemies have unleashed nine occult curses against Vallia. A plague of murderous werewolves catches him unprepared, beginning a struggle against threats his military experience cannot easily answer.

As Dray Prescot gathers his shattered empire, witchcraft strikes his new army with a bombardment of frogs. Allied wizards help him fight the Nine Unspeakable Curses, but the unpredictable Star Lords may complicate his campaign as readily as assist it.

The Star Lords warn Dray Prescot of an approaching invasion while the witch Csitra threatens his empire. Becoming Warlord of Kregen requires uniting its peoples against her magic and the Shanks, warriors advancing from the Southlands.

Enslaved by the Shanks, Dray Prescot takes up a sword to save friends threatened by a Shank lord. He must then bring together forces from Vallia, Hamel and Tsungfaril to drive the invaders out of Tarankar.

After giving up Vallia's throne, Dray Prescot is charged with uniting the lands of Paz against the Shanks. During battle, he sees his wife Delia carried away by Kataki slavers and launches a desperate pursuit.

Dray Prescot has risen through the ranks of Nelson’s navy but sees his career stalled. Disturbing dreams of unfamiliar worlds and a mysterious woman begin to unsettle him, hinting at a life beyond his harsh seafaring existence.

Dray Prescot and Delia leave Vallia's throne to pursue the Star Lords' demand for a united Paz. Fighting slavers alongside the Kroveres of Iztar and confronting the Shanks draws him into further danger as he seeks allies against their raids.

Dray Prescot struggles to unite Balintol against the Shanks while rival rulers pursue their own ambitions. Protecting the region from demonic monsters becomes entangled with a frightening discovery about Delia, placing his public mission and personal loyalties under strain.

This omnibus collects the first five Dray Prescot adventures, following an Earthman's arrival on Kregen and his encounters with the Savanti and Star Lords. Amid unfamiliar peoples and dangerous missions, he pursues Delia of the Blue Mountains.

Dray Prescot reaches the subcontinent of Balintol after adventures across Kregen for both the Star Lords and his own purposes. Unfamiliar conditions and new dangers challenge the experience he has gained as he continues his work on the alien world.

The Star Lords send Dray Prescot to Amintin in Balintol as part of their demand that he unite the peoples of Paz. Though others call him Emperor of Emperors, he doubts the title and faces the difficulty of winning cooperation.

Sent to rescue someone from a fire, Dray Prescot instead finds himself helpless and unable to move in an unfamiliar land. Mevancy cares for him while he tries to understand whom the Star Lords expect him to protect.

The wizard Na-Si-Fantong seeks the rubies of the Skantiklar and disappears beneath the City of Eternal Twilight with one of them. Dray Prescot follows him into a maze of tunnels, uncertain of the jewels' importance or the wizard's intentions.

Four collected adventures follow Dray Prescot's struggle against slavery and hostile rulers on Kregen. While Delia and his companions try to keep him safe, his determination pulls him into rebellions, battles with Hamal's empress and threats to a fragile peace.

Three collected adventures take Dray Prescot across Loh, where the Star Lords' assignments expose him to fire, assassins and unfamiliar beliefs. Lost amid strange lands, he must find his way back and help prepare resistance against the Shanks.

This collection follows Dray Prescot into a conspiracy beneath Pandahem's swamps and a campaign against the Leem cult. Delia's pursuit of an oath-breaker adds another struggle as the couple confront threats to their efforts to unite Kregen's nations.

Three novels and a short story continue the struggle against the Silver Leem cult on Kregen. Dray Prescot confronts enemies alongside his daughter Ros, while Seg the Bowman protects a woman whose claim to royal inheritance puts her in danger.

Dray Prescot attempts to unite Balintol against the Shanks, but rival nobles covet Tolindrin's crown and enlist mercenaries and foreign enemies. He must counter their ambitions through strength and strategy while trying to limit the bloodshed.

Dray Prescot uncovers a Dokerty cult plot to turn ordinary people into vessels for destructive demons. Escaping its temple with the mysterious Veda leaves him fleeing for his life while rival factions threaten his efforts to unite Balintol.

With Didi injured and a schemer governing her province, new unrest threatens Gafarden. The Spectre, believed destroyed, lives within the betrayed Tralgan Vorner, whose desire for revenge brings renewed danger to Dray Prescot's world.