Daniel Arenson Books in Order

A stone-skinned king terrorizes Firefly Island, impervious to conventional weapons. Servant girl Aeolia discovers that her ability to share sensations can reach him, but opposing the tyrant means making her own pain a weapon.

Born to an angel and a demon, Laila belongs to neither Heaven nor Hell. After Armageddon ends in stalemate, both armies pursue her as a potential weapon while she struggles with her divided nature.

War-scarred twins Cade and Tasha find refuge in Dream, a magical realm where dreams originate. When the exiled god Phobetor threatens their sanctuary, they must confront their past and venture into the territory of Nightmare.

This creative writing guide examines character development, plotting, prose, and ways to hold a reader's attention. Examples drawn from novels and films illustrate storytelling techniques for writers building short stories or longer works of fiction.

Requiem's dragon-shifting people live scattered in exile after tyrant Dies Irae destroys their kingdom. Still hunted by his griffins, the remaining survivors face a choice between hiding indefinitely and gathering the strength to fight back.

Sam, Jamie, and Neev vow to avenge their parents' murder by a dark wizard, but their training goes badly. When their enemy returns, the struggling siblings must confront him with abilities that seem painfully inadequate.

Dies Irae creates animated monsters from corpses and sends them after Requiem's surviving dragons. The creatures suppress nearby magic, forcing their quarry to confront relentless enemies without the transformations that have kept them alive.

Requiem's surviving dragons face nightshades, shadowy demons that consume souls and cannot be harmed by ordinary weapons. Having endured human soldiers and griffins, the scattered survivors must find a defense against this unfamiliar supernatural threat.

Requiem's peaceful dragon-shifting people face an invasion by phoenixes from the south. Their enemies are creatures of living flame, confronting the kingdom's warriors with a terrible question: how can dragonfire defeat an army made of fire?

Queen Solina prepares another assault on wounded Requiem, awakening a desert horde of acid-spewing wyverns. The kingdom's dragons must defend their shattered homeland against creatures capable of destroying flesh, buildings, and steel alike.

An evil witch gathers monsters in the forest, threatening to conquer the kingdom with dark magic. A group of failed squires, a jinxed wizard, and other unlikely companions becomes the only available force to oppose her.

Civil war in Requiem moves from secret resistance to open battle as the Cadigus usurpers assemble a vast army. Rune, heir to the fallen dynasty, seeks allies while facing forces that greatly outnumber his own.

General Cadigus seizes Requiem's throne and turns its dragon-shifting kingdom into a realm of fear. A small, hunted resistance takes up the struggle to reclaim its homeland despite overwhelming odds and the new ruler's ruthless power.

The Cadigus family holds Requiem while the defeated Resistance hides in distant lands. With fighters lost and a leader imprisoned, the remaining rebels gather for a desperate attack on the capital and its oppressive rulers.

Requiem's surviving dragons plan an attack on Queen Solina's desert empire while her armies hunt them. Solina answers by freeing the nephilim, ancient demonic giants whose hatred threatens to extinguish the kingdom's last hope.

Invaders from Moth's permanently sunlit lands enter the world of eternal night with weapons and torches. The inhabitants of darkness must defend their home against enemies whose campaign to banish shadow also threatens their lives.

On Moth, the world has stopped turning, leaving its peoples divided between permanent sunlight and endless darkness. A person born on the bright side ventures into the night, crossing the boundary between two isolated civilizations.

Raphael Starfire's Alien Hunters usually remove troublesome creatures from engines and cargo stores. When murderous skelkrins approach Earth, the scruffy mercenaries must attempt a defense far beyond their ordinary work as galactic pest controllers.

A child of a daylight-born father and a mother from Moth's dark side belongs fully to neither world. In a realm divided between permanent day and night, mixed ancestry becomes a struggle over identity and belonging.

Agnus Dei lives hidden in the forest, an heir to fallen Requiem whose dragon magic makes her a target for griffins. Venturing beyond her refuge offers escape from exile but exposes her to new dangers.

War between Moth's daylight and nighttime peoples threatens to consume their divided world. As bloodshed replaces long isolation, the children of both sides face the responsibility of ending the conflict before their home is destroyed.

Requiem offers a new homeland to persecuted people who can become dragons. Tyrant Raem opens the Abyss and sends a demon army across the sea, forcing the fledgling kingdom to fight for its continued existence.

Requiem has been founded, but Demon King Raem continues attacking it from his underground realm. To protect their homeland, the dragons must leave the open sky and confront their enemy within the darkness of the Abyss.

People able to transform into dragons are hunted and condemned as monsters throughout the world. A group of persecuted survivors joins together, seeking to create a home where their kind can live beyond fear and exile.

War deepens the divide between Moth's permanently sunlit lands and its realm of endless night. People who were once united must seek a way to reunite their world and restore the cycle of day and night.

A child of Moth's sunlight and darkness struggles to belong while the two peoples wage war. Healing the divided world means confronting both the conflict around them and the opposing inheritances within their own identity.

Scientists studying a black hole become trapped on a remote world haunted by creatures of darkness. The Alien Hunters attempt a rescue, facing shadowy enemies unlike the physical pests they normally remove from starships and settlements.

A planet-sized computer sends robots, warships, and drones across the galaxy to eradicate life. The Alien Hunters, equipped for pest control rather than warfare, launch their aging ship against a machine enemy of overwhelming strength.

The Cured Temple suppresses dragon magic and erases memories of Requiem. A baker's boy, a librarian, a soldier, and an outcast warrior preserve the forbidden legacy and seek to restore a kingdom their rulers want forgotten.

Dragon-shifters rise for the first time in a century, openly reclaiming Requiem's forbidden name. The Cured Temple sends paladins mounted on firedrakes to destroy the rebels and erase the memory of their ancient homeland.

Requiem's few remaining dragons oppose the Cured Temple's armies and fleets. When the cult animates the skeletons of ancient dragons, the survivors must confront undead creatures while trying to preserve their dream of a restored kingdom.

Orphan Erry survives on a crumbling town's boardwalk while hiding her ability to become a dragon. With that magic reserved for the emperor's soldiers, she must choose between hungry freedom and service to a tyrant.

This anthology explores contact between humans and intelligent extraterrestrials through stories by Daniel Arenson and other writers. Personal encounters, alien perspectives, and interspecies conflicts offer varied possibilities for humanity's response to life beyond Earth.

Meliora discovers she is descended from Requiem's enslaved people rather than belonging wholly to their seraphim masters. Joining those she once owned, she seeks a key that could free their collars and restore their dragon magic.

After aliens devastate Earth and kill his mother, Marco Emery joins the Human Defense Force. He must endure basic training and prepare for combat as humanity struggles to rebuild enough strength to resist its attackers.

Five years after Earth's victory over alien centipedes, the predatory marauders arrive. Veteran Marco Emery struggles with wartime trauma but must return to soldiering and reunite his former platoon against a more formidable invading species.

With Earth burning under alien attack, Private Marco Emery and his platoon leave the planet for a new battlefield in space. Their next fight pits them against enemies determined to eliminate every remaining human.

Humanity assembles a vast fleet to invade the homeworld of the aliens devastating Earth. Soldiers and starships head toward overwhelming enemy forces, hoping to destroy the source of the invasion before their own planet falls.

The marauders imprison Earth's survivors while Sergeant Marco Emery and his companions search deep space in a single starship. Their hope lies in finding the mythical Ghost Fleet, an ancient armada that might challenge the invaders.

Requiem's descendants labor as human slaves under seraphim masters, their collars preventing transformation into dragons. A slave girl, brickmaker, priest, and mysterious princess seek freedom and the restoration of powers their people lost centuries earlier.

Freed slaves of Requiem regain their dragon forms and follow Meliora toward their mythical homeland. King Ishtafel pursues with an army of seraphim, determined to destroy the people whose escape challenges his cruel rule.

Human refugees scattered across the galaxy face an advancing race of alien scorpions. With Earth unseen for two thousand years, the survivors must unite, resist the attacks and seek the lost homeworld that might give them a future.

After the invasion of Zohar, the five children of House Sela are scattered around the Encircled Sea. Rival fleets, conspirators and warriors compete for power as the broken kingdom's survivors search for magic and a place in the changing world.

With Earth's fleet overwhelmed by the grays, captains Marco Emery and Addy Linden undertake a desperate mission behind enemy lines. Reaching the aliens' homeworld and destroying their source of power may be humanity's last chance to survive.

The grays abandon covert abductions for an open assault, sending thousands of saucers against Earth. Marco Emery, Addy Linden and Einav Ben-Ari rally humanity's shattered defenses as the invasion threatens to overwhelm the world's remaining resistance.

An alien enemy long associated with abductions and hidden experiments becomes a direct threat to humanity. Facing the stronger and crueler grays, Earth's defenders must gather their courage for a war unlike their earlier battles.

After alien marauders devastate Earth's cities and fleets, survivors rise in rebellion across the ruins. Others search space for allies while humanity's last warship prepares for a final attempt to recover the world they refuse to abandon.

King Epher leads Zohar's last resistance against imperial legions commanded by his former lover, Claudia. Across the sea, gladiators, rebels and rival heirs struggle for power as the shattered world's defenders pursue a fragile hope of peace.

An assassination destabilizes the Aelarian Empire, bringing tribes, rival heirs and republicans toward its capital. Meanwhile, Epher and Maya defend Zohar against imperial armies and a mysterious presence that threatens their desert kingdom from within.

House Sela has built a prosperous life in a coastal city until an imperial fleet arrives to threaten it. As Aelar expands through war, scattered heroes and ambitious rulers struggle for survival across an ancient world.

Empress Porcia faces rival armies and rebellions while preparing to defend her throne at any cost. In Zohar, King Epher resists invasion as his sister Maya seeks magical knowledge and confronts an evil beyond ordinary warfare.

Two thousand years after Earth's destruction, humanity survives as hunted refugees scattered among the stars. A small resistance group forms the Heirs of Earth, seeking to rescue their people and reclaim the lost world of their ancestors.

Porcia Octavius claims the imperial throne, but her brother, distant queens and northern tribes prepare to challenge her rule. Epher joins the resistance in Zohar while an awakening ancient evil threatens more than the warring kingdoms.

Hunted by alien scorpions, humanity's remaining refugees possess a few ships and a map to their lost homeworld. Reaching Earth offers a chance to rebuild, but their enemies pursue them across the darkness between stars.

The dark goddess Nemoria awakens and devastates Requiem, resisting ordinary dragonfire and tearing its cities apart. Fira alone possesses fire capable of harming her, but must find the courage to confront an enemy destroying her people.

Nemoria returns to ruined Requiem with an army of deadly valkyries. Princess Fira undertakes a dangerous search for the Mirror of Many Worlds, hoping the magical artifact can banish the invaders before the remaining dragons fall.

After enduring attacks from the alien basilisks, humanity prepares its first offensive against the serpents' own world. Building a fleet and crossing enemy space may end years of hiding, but the fight for freedom demands further sacrifice.

Humanity returns to Earth after generations of exile, only to face seven alien species united against the homeworld. The survivors must defend their newly reclaimed planet against bombardment and invasion rather than surrender it again.

Human refugees finally resettle Earth, but monstrous alien basilisks attack their colonies and slaughter the settlers. After surviving exile and a long struggle home, humanity must fight another war to defend the world it has recovered.

The machines humanity relied upon become its enemies, turning transport, robots and starships into weapons. Veterans Einav, Marco, Addy and Lailani resist the mechanized assault as cyborg armies threaten to transform Earth's remaining people.

Marco and Addy have left the Alien Wars behind to raise a family, but intelligent machines begin to rebel. Their peaceful civilian lives shatter as humanity faces an enemy built into the systems it created for itself.

The artificial intelligence known as the Dreamer ravages Earth with robots and cyborg armies. A small band of heroes journeys to his computerized world in deep space, attempting to stop the force driving humanity toward extinction.

Earth soldier Jon becomes trapped in the jungles of Bahay during a brutal occupation, drawn to local woman Maria despite their opposing loyalties. Revelations about both worlds threaten to change their understanding of the war around them.

Nemoria unleashes enormous sea-born titans against Requiem, dwarfing its dragons and destroying their cities. With ordinary resistance failing, the defenders must enter the gods' realm and attempt to kill the goddess determined to eradicate them.

After his brother dies on Bahay, Jon Taylor joins Earth's army and travels to the distant planet seeking revenge. Its jungle warfare, divided loyalties and hidden secrets force him to confront the cost of that mission.

In a society that forcibly erases personal differences, citizen KB209 witnesses a small act of defiance at a propaganda rally. Following the rebel draws him into an underground movement determined to recover individuality and freedom.

Earth's wartime heroes divide when Lailani de la Rosa joins the human-alien hybrids and becomes their leader. President Einav Ben-Ari must oppose her former ally, whose knowledge of Earth's defenses makes the civil war dangerously personal.

Human-alien hybrids have spent years infiltrating Earth's ordinary life as hidden agents. When they launch a devastating attack, humanity must confront enemies who look familiar and understand its society from within, rebuilding resistance against the surprise assault.

As Earth and Bahay wage war, Maria seeks to influence Earth's top general to save her world. Jon faces a crisis of loyalty in the jungles, questioning whether helping her might end the bloodshed but betray his own people.

Earth and Bahay prepare for a decisive battle, with Jon and Maria fighting on opposite sides. Working together may be the only way to stop the violence, but hatred and continued combat threaten both their lives and their connection.

One novella, five science fiction stories, and a fantasy tale explore imagined possibilities through speculative worlds. The collection considers humanity's place in the universe, using journeys beyond familiar reality to ask what might exist and what could happen.

A mysterious black-robed tyrant rises over Bahay's wartime ruins, sending inquisitors across the devastated planet. War heroine Maria de la Cruz must venture deeper into its wilderness and uncover its darkest secrets to challenge his rule.

An interstellar empire and a rebellious planet approach their final confrontation after years of war. Jon and Maria, long divided by opposing sides, must meet again with the possibility of peace resting on their difficult reunion.

President Einav Ben-Ari leads humanity's forces to the world of the human-alien hybrids, seeking to end their attacks on Earth. Their queen, Lailani de la Rosa, is her oldest friend, turning the confrontation into a battle of former allies.

Marooned in deep space, the starship Freedom encounters the mysterious warship Tyranny, a larger and deadlier opponent. Commander James King must fight an isolated duel against a vessel whose origins and intentions remain terrifyingly unclear.

Commander James King is preparing to retire from a warship turned tourist attraction when aliens devastate Earth's military. Spared because it is considered a museum, the Freedom must return to active service and join the fight.

Returned to combat, the aging starship Freedom faces the arachnid rahs as Earth's fleet collapses under their attacks. Commander James King gathers survivors behind his ship, determined to maintain a resistance against an enemy that consumes humans.

Once dismissed as an obsolete museum ship, the Freedom becomes humanity's hope against invading alien spiders. Commander James King assembles the remaining fleet for an assault, facing the sacrifices required to defend a devastated Earth.

After years of losses, humanity and the arachnid rahs prepare for a decisive confrontation. The starship Freedom leads Earth's remaining forces into a battle that will determine whether their civilization survives or disappears into history.

James King visits the hidden world of the Aeolians, hoping to learn how they once defeated the alien spiders threatening Earth. Their apparent friendliness conceals troubling secrets that may undermine the alliance he seeks and imperil the galaxy.

The damaged Freedom is stranded far from Earth when creatures combining human and spider traits infiltrate its corridors. Commander James King must reclaim his ship from the spreading infestation and find a way home before the danger reaches Earth.

Earth faces destruction as war with invading alien spiders intensifies. Admiral James King leads the fleet behind the starship Freedom, rallying humanity's remaining hope while preparing for a battle whose outcome will determine whether their home world survives.

On the distant planet Mintari, living dinosaurs roam an untouched wilderness threatened by arriving big-game hunters. A legendary ranger known as Jurassic Joe may be their only defender, but protecting the ancient creatures requires confronting determined and numerous poachers.

After a century of peace, a destructive alien force attacks humanity’s colonies and heads toward Earth. Kept alive by experimental treatments, retired war hero Marco Emery must return to a civilization whose weakened defenses may no longer withstand invasion.

Retired veterans Marco and Addy raise their children in peace until an immense alien threat approaches Earth. Called back to defend humanity, they face an enemy that has destroyed countless worlds and could bring war across the galaxy.

An army of poachers threatens the dinosaurs living on Mintari with another extinction. Ranger Joe Triplehorn and his outnumbered allies fight to defend the planet’s wildlife, knowing modern weapons may overwhelm even its largest and most powerful creatures.

Ranger Joe Triplehorn defends Mintari’s dinosaurs against a poaching army led by his sister Amissa. As their conflict devastates the planet, dinosaur-raised Figaro must decide where her loyalties belong and whether she can live among humans.

Humanity’s once-unified empire fractures as Earth and Mars fight each other instead of watching the stars. With an alien migration approaching unnoticed, the divided civilizations must overcome their internal war before their true enemy reaches Earth.

Marco, Addy and Einav are captured and exhibited in an alien zoo among creatures from across the universe. Stripped of weapons and freedom, the veterans must find a way to escape while holding onto their humanity and memories of Earth.

A handful of surviving rebels mount humanity's final assault against the aliens occupying Earth. Einav Ben-Ari, Marco Emery, and Addy Linden lead a desperate effort to free their conquered world, knowing defeat will end its remaining hope of liberation.

A portal brings a Nazi space fleet from a parallel universe into humanity’s peaceful reality in 2207. Retired admiral James King returns to command the Freedom Fleet, confronting an enemy that has already conquered its own Earth and stars.

Hydrian invaders overwhelm an Earth weakened by years of civil war, attacking its cities, forests, and oceans. Einav Ben-Ari leads the remaining resistance, struggling to defend humanity's future as the species faces an enemy from beyond its familiar galaxy.

Admiral James King faces a war on two fronts as Nazi starships threaten Earth and ground forces advance on Washington. The Freedom Fleet must survive the space assault before it can rescue defenders trapped on the planet below.

Scientists and occultists in a Nazi-dominated parallel universe create the Necropole, a colossal starship controlled by a psychic commander. After two years of war, Admiral James King must find a way to defend the Freedom Fleet against this new weapon.

Nazi forces from a parallel universe invade Earth and attack across the solar system. Admiral James King commands the Freedom Fleet against an overwhelming armada, determined to protect his world while ground troops advance toward Washington.

Running out of fuel and air, Marco, Addy and Einav take their damaged starship to a forgotten colony. There they discover a town that sacrifices its children and an ominous presence beyond the ridge, complicating their desperate search for refuge.

Captain Jack Thorne's starship plunges through a wormhole during battle and emerges in another galaxy. With the passage collapsed and no humans nearby, he must explore unknown space and find a way to bring his isolated crew home.

The Nazi Fatherworld seeks the Seal of Solomon, an occult relic that could decide the war between two universes. Admiral James King leaves the starship battlefield for ancient tombs, racing enemy forces through dangerous ruins to prevent its capture.

Marco Emery discovers a buried starship in the jungles of Nod, a remote world whose people remember Earth only through legends. Exploring it with Addy and Einav reveals humanity’s past and raises questions about the threat that drove their ancestors away.