BV Larson Books in Order

Humans in Haven have no magic and are hunted by stronger powers, but that balance is starting to crack. This opening novella introduces the nine jewels that shape the world's magic and wars.

The Red Jewel returns to the board, and every power wants it. Brand leads his allies toward the Black Mountains as new armies gather and the next great war of the series begins.

Connor lives in a town where everyone can shape-change into an animal, except possibly him. As the only kid who has not changed yet, he fears he may be ordinary and headed for exile.

Brand is called beneath Snowdon when a treasure hunt in the Everdark goes badly wrong. What he finds in the deep places is older, stranger, and more dangerous than anyone expected.

After a plane crash, Samantha is stranded on a Pacific island with four young men, each hiding something. One of them may have murdered the pilot, and survival depends on finding out who.

Human colonists have settled on the ancient homeworld of a long-lost alien civilization. Then the surviving task force comes home and discovers the new occupants are very much alive.

Humanity thinks it wiped out the Skaintz threat, but signals from the dead travel outward into the dark. On Neu Schweitz, politics and piracy are about to be replaced by a fight for survival.

Herla of the Wild Hunt begins hunting down every wielder of the jewels of power. As armies march toward the River Haven, Brand and his allies are pulled into a desperate war for control.

The peace between humans and the Faerie breaks when Oberon loses the Blue Jewel. To defend the Haven, a champion must learn to wield the Axe Ambros before darker powers sweep in.

Fifteen stories explore futures where technology makes ordinary fears more dangerous. Genetic ownership, altered bodies, automated medicine, and journeys beyond Earth force people to confront the unsettling costs of scientific progress and human ambition.

Gannon is among the last humans in Redmoor after a mysterious change transforms his neighbors into monsters. With unreliable weapons and dangerous corpses surrounding him, he struggles to survive a world whose rules have suddenly collapsed.

The Black Jewel awakens, old evils stir, and the dead begin to gather under Arawn's schemes. Brand struggles through Fae tricks, plague, and missing allies as the Haven grows darker.

Therian and Gruum travel to an icy mountain above ancient Kem, seeking to restore the fading sun. Death, madness, and shadowy enemies stalk their journey, while the Black Dragon’s reasons for sending them remain uncertain.

Chrissy meets an attractive man online and decides his devotion to gaming is a flaw she can fix. Told through electronic messages, this teenage romantic comedy follows the disasters and revelations sparked by her effort to create an ideal boyfriend.

As the sun dims and predictions promise permanent ice, Therian and Gruum begin the final stage of their quest to save Hyborea. Reaching the power they need requires descending into the earth and confronting their own hearts.

Therian and Gruum sail south on a mission that could secure the Black Dragon’s patronage and help restore the sun. A treacherous crew, a dead companion, and an apparently unstoppable sea monster turn the voyage perilous.

Rival dragon orders summon dangerous forces as Corium faces starvation and its necropolis grows restless. Therian must decide how to confront both factions before their struggle destroys the city and threatens all of Hyborea.

Therian and Gruum defend weakened Hyborea against invaders from the south. As Corium prepares for battle, Gruum learns more about competing dragons and the demands of becoming a champion, while unfamiliar enemies threaten the kingdom.

Prince Therian inherits a kingdom where the sun fades and glaciers advance every year. To restore summer, he seeks the power of sleeping dragons, entering a world of dark sorcery and sacrificial rites with his ancestral blades.

An alien craft crashes in Cuba, and every power on Earth wants what it brought with it. XCU agent Malena Marin is sent into the chaos, only to learn the aliens have plans of their own.

On the tidally locked world of Ignis Glace, humans and mechs battle for survival while a new alien threat closes in. Fire, ice, rebellion, and invasion all hit at once.

Set before the main Imperium books, this novella explores the dangerous frontier called the Faustian Chain. Human colonies live beside forbidden alien relic zones, and everyone can feel war getting closer.

Quentin Draith wakes in a private sanatorium with no memory, a dead friend, and the police looking his way. Chasing the truth leads him into impossible crimes and a hidden world he may already belong to.

Brand is older, the old alliances are breaking, and the last great war of the jewels is finally here. Former friends turn against him as the fate of the Haven hangs on one final choice.

James McGill joins Earth's mercenary legions and heads to a mineral-rich alien world for his first campaign. It is a brutal introduction to a galaxy where humanity survives by fighting other people's wars.

A missing woman draws Quentin Draith into one of Las Vegas's darkest corners, where disappearances and strange violence pile up fast. The case soon looks less like a crime and more like an invasion.

An illegal lost colony reaches out to Earth, and Legion Varus is sent to deal with the problem before the wider empire notices. McGill arrives with sealed orders, secret agendas, and his usual lack of restraint.

Alien technology recovered after the Tunguska event leads to a new star drive and the detection of a larger artifact near Jupiter. American and Russian spacecraft race to claim it, unaware of what their competing expeditions will discover.

Tau Ceti looks like a luxurious city-world assignment, but James McGill's easy posting does not stay easy for long. Invasion, imperial weakness, and frontier danger crash into one another at the trading capital.

A century after Earth lost contact with its colonies, a massive warship returns from the outer reaches. Captain William Sparhawk is sent back out to explore the reunion, and it quickly turns dangerous.

Unknown aliens strike Earth from a world no one even knew existed. McGill and Legion Varus chase them back to a vicious planet and uncover a growing threat moving through the region.

Sparhawk's first voyage reveals that Earth is in far greater danger than anyone guessed. He must choose between warning home and hunting enemy scouts, knowing either choice could ignite a wider war.

Up for promotion at last, James McGill is sent beyond imperial borders and into a campaign full of conspiracy, alien politics, and relentless squid troopers. The battlefield is new, but the trouble feels familiar.

A rival empire invades Earth, and James McGill's legion is thrown into the defense of humanity's homeworld. While the brass plans the war, McGill goes hunting for a dangerous technological edge.

The Kher return with a colossal AI warship that methodically grinds inhabited worlds to dust. Leo Blake takes Earth's first warship into space to find a way to stop it before Earth becomes the next target.

In a star cluster where stronger powers treat weaker worlds as target practice, Earth is asked to stand with the rebels. Leo Blake gets command of humanity's only ship, and losing is not really an option.

Earth begins building a terrifying new fleet, but Captain William Sparhawk is no longer sure what it is really for. The answers lead toward secrecy, fear, and a truth more unsettling than open war.

Strange ships start pouring from rifts above Earth, and Leo Blake is called in to face a threat no one understands. What looks like invasion turns out to be something even harder to fight.

Humanity needs allies fast, so Earth's legions head to a brutal frontier world where strength is the only language anyone respects. The prize is an army of loyal troops, if McGill can help win it.

Human colonists struggle to survive on Faust, where indigenous creatures resist their presence. The arrival of a stealth raider with a cyborg crew brings a third force into the conflict, threatening the settlement with conquest from above.

Earth's alien overlords are finally coming back in force, and humanity has a lot to hide. Legion Varus is sent to erase dangerous mistakes, but James McGill is rarely the man you want on a tidy cleanup job.

Humanity's new frontier holdings start disappearing as a rival power moves in from deep space. What should be a sharp military raid becomes a bloodbath, and McGill keeps dying his way through it.

At last Earth has a small fleet of its own, and that new confidence alarms everyone nearby. Leo Blake heads back into hostile space as humanity tries to claim independence before stronger powers crush the idea.

McGill is sent to the core of imperial politics to prove Earth is worth keeping around. On a world lashed by storms, he fights a brutal campaign while angry alien rulers decide humanity's future.

An enormous object of compressed stardust is hurtling toward Earth, and nobody can stop it or explain it. As panic spreads, James McGill is dragged into negotiations over the fate of far more than one planet.

Earth's first colony ship reaches the stars and finds one disappointment after another. As the voyage stretches across generations, aliens close in and civil war breaks out aboard the wandering vessel.

A sabotage mission goes too well, Rigel erupts, and a wider imperial civil war spills into humanity's corner of space. McGill has a talent for making history, usually the messy kind.

Humanity discovers the Solar System is trapped inside an immense artificial barrier, and getting through it may mean war. Chief Gray joins a desperate test mission as aliens and saboteurs close in.

Legion Varus is sent to defend a border planet where one side burns, the other freezes, and only a narrow twilight zone can support life. McGill's diplomacy goes about as well as you would expect.

Humanity sees a chance to steal a technological edge from Rigel on a strange planet of crystal formations. McGill is sent in first as an agent, then as a soldier, and the quiet mission does not stay quiet.

Captain Bill Gorman has vanished, so his stored clone is awakened to take his place. As frontier colonies go dark under alien attack, the new Gorman must uncover what happened and decide how far he will run.

Rebels build a hidden base to retake the worlds humanity has seized, and the search for them sparks a wider border crisis. When McGill stumbles onto the camp, the whole war lurches into the open.

Old thefts from Tau Ceti come back to haunt James McGill when Tau agents arrive on Earth looking for revenge. The hunt for the missing loot sends Legion Varus to a frozen, hostile world.

Alien swarms have consumed the Faustian Chain and now threaten the Conclave. Smuggler Bill Gorman is sent to scout the invaders as humanity launches a desperate military response to creatures that devour every living thing.

Earth's fleet and legions are drafted into an alien war, and Centurion James McGill is given a mission that could change everything. He must decide whether to serve humanity's overlords or strike at them directly.

The Faustian Chain has fallen silent, and smuggler Bill Gorman knows alien invaders are responsible. Having fought them himself, he and his crew must decide whether to face the advancing threat or abandon the fight.

As Earth and Rigel race toward war, Legion Varus attacks a secret target. James McGill finds his operations repeatedly sabotaged and must discover whether the enemy, or someone within his own government, wants him dead.

Competition over newly discovered alien technology pushes human factions toward war. Aboard the refitted mining ship Borag, Sergeant Devin Starn and Red Company confront enemies, deception, and hidden agendas while searching for answers about earlier civilizations.

Corporal Devin Starn helps keep the mining ship Borag flying amid a rush to exploit alien technology. Pirates, cyborgs, and competing claims threaten the crew as ancient ruins deepen the mystery of the civilizations that disappeared before humanity.

Mining worker Devin Starn slowly earns his place aboard Borag in the asteroid belt. When the crew uncovers an alien base, protecting the ship forces him to confront the mystery of the civilizations that vanished before humanity.

Unknown invaders attack Rigel, giving Earth an opportunity to seize territory on Jungle World. James McGill questions the campaign, fearing that exploiting a weakened rival will only strengthen the more dangerous enemy beyond the frontier.

Dane Tanner is sent to the water world Tamil to prevent a colony from destroying itself. Conflict between surface settlers and genetically altered amphibious humans forces him to confront brutal experiments and decide whether the rival populations can coexist.

Colonists on ash-covered Acheron discover a signal from alien ruins just before ancient guardians attack. Dane Tanner must decode the transmission in time to stop the machines, or find a way to use their power against the threat.

An alien vessel destroys an Earth cruiser, and Borag’s crew is sent to investigate and rescue survivors. Sergeant Starn must explain an empty life-pod and discover what the powerful intruder intends before returning safely to Mars.

An alien monolith lands on James McGill’s family farm as rebellions and rival imperial claims threaten galactic civil war. He must navigate shifting alliances, hybrid armies, and devastating weapons before the conflict engulfs Earth.

Precision meteor attacks strike Earth and its colonies, threatening humanity with systematic destruction. Devin Starn and Borag’s crew move from emergency relief to hunting the attacks’ source alongside the Earth Navy, confronting an unknown and calculating enemy.

Haven-7 erupts into civil war as rebels challenge rulers who control an aging colony ship and its technology. Special forces operative Dane Tanner is sent to restore stability, confronting failing reactors, dangerous mutations, and entrenched inequality.

The Imperial Throne stands empty while organic and machine civilizations fight over who should rule. James McGill uncovers a rising power’s bid for control, raising the possibility of either a reunited empire or its final destruction.

Legion Varus investigates silent colonies and discovers parasites turning humans into coordinated killing machines. Mysteriously immune, James McGill must confront betrayal and difficult choices as the infection threatens to make humanity serve a new alien species.

Aliens transform Earth into a lethal game where death is permanent and refusing to play makes people expendable. Starting with nothing, Corey Anderson builds a guild and relies on strategy to survive a system designed around dangerous consequences.

Stranded on a volcanic battlefield, James McGill faces rebel forces protected by an energy dome. Improvising a way to win becomes even harder when his own commanders are searching for grounds to execute him.

On the ice world Jarl, Dane Tanner finds a tyrant ruling from an orbital colony ship. His intervention sparks rebellion, forcing him to choose between abandoning vulnerable settlers and infiltrating a stronghold whose ruler already knows his identity.

Legion Varus assaults Infernus, an alien stronghold near Earth where heat, poison, and crushing weapons overwhelm its soldiers. James McGill must unite unlikely allies and defeat the defenders before enemy reinforcements make victory impossible.

A routine deployment becomes a crisis when an alien intrusion infects Legion Varus’s transport. With the crew changing, revival machines producing monsters, and combat robots awakening, James McGill must stop the threat spreading through his ship.

Dane Tanner arrives on forested Trond to find aliens replacing humans with perfect biological copies. As interstellar war approaches, he must decide whether to destroy the infiltrators or negotiate with refugees fleeing an even greater threat.