First Colony Books in Order

Wrongfully imprisoned Connor Gates wakes from stasis aboard humanity's first interstellar colony ship and arrives on a world full of new dangers. The colony needs someone who can adapt fast, and Connor is the man on hand.

After barely surviving invasion, the colony has little left between it and extinction. Connor must rally exhausted defenders and find a way to beat an enemy that should already have won.

New Earth receives a final warning from Earth: a pandemic-born enemy is coming. Connor must prepare skeptical colonists for the same war that already destroyed their home system, before the first attack lands.

Connor uncovers a hidden bunker that overturns everything the colonists think they know about New Earth's vanished inhabitants. Exploration becomes a race to understand who was there before, and who may still be watching.

As tensions spike between the settlements, Connor uncovers a secret faction exploiting dangerous alien discoveries. At the same time, Sean Quinn is cut off from home and forced into a mystery that widens the series.

Recovering from war with the Vemus, the colony faces a new crisis as New Earth's creatures turn violent. Connor and the scientists race to solve an alien mystery before super-predators reach the settlements.

Sean Quinn is stranded in another universe with two thousand people and no safe way home. Back on New Earth, Connor must hold the colony together and forge an uneasy alliance before everything breaks.

The Krake are hunting New Earth, and the colony is too divided to face them cleanly. Connor fights to hold the future together while Sean Quinn gambles on contact with a rebel faction.

Connor returns to the Colonial Defense Force just as alien technology opens a doorway into deeper danger. A distress beacon from presumed-dead colonists draws him toward a rescue that may be a trap.

Connor launches covert operations to free other worlds and win allies before the enemy finds New Earth. But when new allies clash with old loyalties, the colony's internal divisions become just as dangerous.

Connor helps investigate fresh reports of interdimensional attacks while searching for the invader's hidden homeworld. If he cannot find the source in time, New Earth could be next, and survival may depend on his team alone.

Connor sets out to investigate mysterious aliens linked to New Earth, but a terrorist attack makes the mission personal. When Diaz's son is killed, grief and vengeance push an old friendship to the edge.

Just as Connor plans to retire, probes reveal that humans may have survived near Earth, and so did the enemy. He leads one last expedition home, looking for answers and a chance to repay an old sacrifice.

Ten years after Ark II vanished, Connor joins a risky FTL expedition to find the lost colony. The mission pushes humanity farther into the unknown and asks what the second colony has really become.

Ethan Gates returns to quarantined Earth after surviving as a hybrid resistant to the Vemus. While refugees fight over the future, he uncovers clues about the origin of the threat itself.

A hyperspace experiment strands Connor and a tiny crew far beyond known space on a failing ship. Their best hope is a distant clue that may lead home, or deeper into the unknown.

Connor leads a huge exploration push until a strange alien world infects survivors, including his son Ethan. To save the stranded and stop the spread, he faces a choice that could change humanity's future.

Lost thousands of light-years from home, Connor must trust a dangerous alien prisoner to reach an ancient outpost. What waits there could save his battered crew, or awaken something far worse.

Sean Quinn escorts Aczar refugees back to a homeworld that does not welcome them, while Ethan Gates follows strange signals to a forgotten relic. Diplomacy, history, and first contact all turn volatile.

Ethan Gates leads a covert strike on Edolus to seize a Vemus Star Probe before a new Alpha can rise. But the Kevoryn, the Vemus, and the planet itself are hiding ugly surprises.