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.

Kyle Riggs is abducted by an alien ship and survives its lethal tests, only to learn those aliens are the friendly ones. Earth is dragged into a wider war and forced to build a fleet in a hurry.

Kyle has broken Earth free of the Macros, and now the machines want him erased. The war expands, the stakes rise again, and humanity finds itself staring at another possible extinction.

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.

Earth has promised service to the machines, and Kyle Riggs is sent to invade an alien world on their behalf. Suicidal missions, human politics, and Macro demands make a bad year even worse.

Kyle Riggs begins to understand the true shape of the war between machines and living races. As Star Force is pushed into uglier battles, loyalty becomes the most dangerous question on the field.

The Eden system is finally in humanity's grasp, but Star Force is exhausted and the machine war is far from over. Kyle Riggs goes looking for a lasting answer before the next armada arrives.

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.

Cut off in Eden, Kyle Riggs starts hearing strange, unreliable reports from a suddenly quiet Earth. With enemies gathering and alien alliances shifting, he must decide whom he can still trust.

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.

The young human colonies in Eden are taking root, but enemies gather on every side. Kyle Riggs must sort out desperate calls for help, shifting alliances, and growing threats before the whole project is wiped out.

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.

Kyle Riggs turns back toward Earth as Star Force, the Imperials, and the Blues edge toward a three-way war. Revenge, conquest, and survival start looking like the same mission.

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.

This short Star Force novella follows one nanotized man on a do-or-die mission as machine invaders descend on Earth. It is a focused side story about a future player in the larger war.

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.

Lost far from Earth, Cody Riggs runs into the overwhelming power of the Ancients and finds himself abandoned from every side. To survive, he has to claw his way back into a game rigged against him.

Fresh from the Academy, Cody Riggs is hurled hundreds of light-years from home aboard the Valiant. Surrounded by hostile aliens and trouble inside his own crew, he is forced into command fast.

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.

Kyle Riggs has liberated Earth, only to end up sitting uneasily on its throne. As the final war with the machines begins, he must learn who his real allies and enemies have been all along.

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.

Cody Riggs flies into a triple-star system where three civilizations are locked in an endless cycle of invasion and survival. Trying to help the wrong side could doom far more than his own crew.

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.

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.

Derek Straker is a mech assault captain in a grinding interstellar war against the Hok. A mission beyond the front lines promises answers, but the truth behind the conflict is darker than he knows.

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.

Commodore Straker's young republic faces a two-front war just as mysterious new players enter the game. Fleet battles rage, diplomacy turns slippery, and every ally comes with a question mark.

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.

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.