Dave Bara Books in Order

Sixteen-year-old Ethan Cochran joins the Colonial Sector Navy as a fighter pilot, eager to defend humanity against the Kalians. Combat and capture force him to question Earth’s propaganda and the treatment of its colonies as he flies alongside Meredith Sono.

Lieutenant Peter Cochrane’s expected exploration assignment changes after his former girlfriend dies in an attack on the lightship Impulse. Transferred to a foreign command with secret orders, he confronts ancient technology and rival powers that could plunge humanity into war.

After the loss of Impulse, Peter Cochrane investigates a mysterious station aboard Starbound and survives another devastating attack. Returning to a divided Carinthia, he faces a trial and political maneuvering that may connect its royal succession to the First Empire.

Peter Cochrane and his wife Karina seek allies on Sandosa, where a diplomatic mission turns into an assassination attempt. Attacks elsewhere draw him toward Prince Arin of Carinthia while discoveries about Earth’s Historians complicate the growing conflict between rival powers.

Royal Academy graduate Dane Cochrane boards a luxurious starliner for home, only to become the target of kidnappers and assassins. Stranded on Old Earth, he joins rebel Axel Noiman to resist an occupation threatening Quantar and confront his treacherous brother.

Ambassador Tam Renwick’s treaty mission goes awry when an ambush sends his cruiser into a deadly region of space. Rescued by an android-crewed ship with a holographic captain, he must recover abducted crewmates and confront the forces exploiting the Void.

A decade after a failed rebellion ruined his career, Jared Clement receives command of humanity’s first truly faster-than-light ship. His expedition to the newly discovered Trinity system offers a chance at redemption, but signs of alien spacefarers threaten interstellar conflict.

Now a fleet admiral, Jared Clement escorts thirty thousand refugees to settle beside Bellus’s native inhabitants. An escaped enemy and Earth’s powerful Solar League threaten to seize Trinity, leaving his small military force responsible for protecting both settlers and natives.