Jay Allan Books in Order

Jake Taylor is torn from his old life and sent to Erastus, a hell world where human soldiers fight an endless alien war. When he learns the conflict may be a lie, survival becomes rebellion.

Erik Cain joins the Marines to escape death row and finds himself fighting brutal campaigns for Earth's exhausted superpowers. As he rises through the ranks, he starts to question who the real enemy is.

The Third Frontier War is raging, and Colonel Erik Cain is back in the field while Admiral Augustus Garret drives deep into enemy space. The final battle may win the war, but at a staggering cost.

In a collapsing post-Roman Britannia, Uther Pendragon fights to hold back warlords, chaos, and the dark age closing in. It is a grim, martial take on the world before Arthur and Camelot.

Peace after the war proves shaky and short-lived. As Earth tightens control over the colonies and turns on the Marines, Cain is drawn into a growing revolt over who rules the frontier.

Long before he commanded mighty fleets, Augustus Garret was a young captain chasing honor and fame. His first mission wins him notice, but also teaches him how cruel space war can be.

A fragile truce shatters when an ancient signal awakens the guardians of a long-dead empire. Cain and his Marines must face a superior enemy and fight beside old human rivals.

The First Imperium is tearing through human space, and there is only one place left to make a stand. Cain heads to Sandoval knowing victory may demand everything he has left.

The war with the Imperium barely ends before mysterious occupation forces seize colony worlds. Cain and Garret are thrown into another crisis against an enemy that looks disturbingly familiar.

Humanity has survived the first assault, but the enemy will be back. Armed with priceless intelligence, Garret and Cain choose the bolder path and carry the war straight into enemy space.

Before he became a Marine legend, Darius Jax was just a raw private on a nightmare world called Tombstone. This prequel follows his first brutal campaign and the loss of his early illusions.

Gavin Stark unleashes his clone armies and pushes Earth toward catastrophic war. Outnumbered on the colonies and losing ground everywhere, Cain and the Marines are asked to hold one last impossible line.

Cain leaves the Corps to hunt Stark, while exhausted Marines and Janissaries fight across occupied worlds and Earth descends into chaos. Revenge and liberation collide in the series finale.

Before he became commandant, Elias Holm was a junior captain thrown into disaster on Persis. Hemmed in by Janissaries, bad politics, and betrayal, he has to earn command the hard way.

Jake Taylor's veteran cyborg soldiers begin the long march back toward Earth after learning who the real aggressors are. They face elite human enemies, old prophecies, and a larger darkness beyond the war.

This collection gathers the Crimson Worlds prequels centered on Darius Jax, Augustus Garret, and Elias Holm. It is a strong way to see how three future legends were forged before the main series.

Blackhawk and the crew of the Wolf's Claw are pulled deeper into Augustin Lucerne's campaign to unite the Far Stars. A covert mission reveals how far imperial interference already reaches.

Admiral Terrance Compton wins a great battle, then realizes he and 300 ships are trapped beyond the gate. Hunted by the Regent, he leads his people into unexplored space in search of a home.

Thirty years after Earth's ruin, the frontier is shaped as much by mercenary companies as by governments. Darius Cain and the Black Eagles keep winning wars until signs of a hidden power surface.

Smuggler and mercenary Arkarin Blackhawk takes a rescue job and gets dragged into civil war, imperial plotting, and a fight over the future of the Far Stars. Staying detached is no longer an option.

Compton's fleet pushes deeper into enemy territory, short on fuel, food, and hope. The farther they run, the more the lost past of the First Imperium starts changing their future.

A message suggests Erik Cain may still be alive, and Darius Cain walks straight into a trap to find out. To reach Eldaron, he may have to risk everything the Black Eagles have built.

Long before the main Far Stars saga, Arkarin Blackhawk is a wandering fighter with nowhere to belong. On war-torn Celtiboria, meeting Augustin Lucerne forces him to choose a side.

Captain Tyler Barron thinks the battered battleship Dauntless is finally headed for repairs, until a frontier crisis turns into a savage ship-to-ship duel. One wrong move could trigger a war that kills billions.

Governor Vos is closing in, and the new Confederation may break before it fully stands. If Blackhawk survives the plots around Lucerne, he may have to become the leader he has spent years avoiding.

Jake Taylor has fought through one portal world after another, and now the final target is Earth itself. Outnumbered but no longer alone, he launches a last revolt against the rulers who built the war.

An elite Martian black-ops unit is sent to investigate the wreck of an ancient alien ship. The mission becomes a deadly race against Gavin Stark and forces no one fully understands.

The refugees are close to a hidden refuge, but the Regent is closer. Compton's survival may depend on a tiny Marine mission aimed straight at the enemy's homeworld and machine mind.

The survivors have built Earth Two from the wreckage of their flight, but peace is already cracking. Rival human factions clash just as a second Regent rises, bent on revenge.

The long-expected Union invasion has begun, and Barron rushes the damaged Dauntless back to the front. Cut off behind enemy lines, he must choose between retreat and a suicidal counterstrike.

Civil war tears the Alliance apart, and the wrong outcome there could destroy the Confederation. Barron bets everything on a desperate plan to stop the Reds before they hand victory to the Union.

With the Confederation and Union exhausted, the danger shifts to covert action and politics. A planned coup in the Alliance could open a second front and doom the Confederation.

Haven is sliding toward revolt against Federal America, and every attempt at compromise is dying. As brutal enforcers move in, retired war hero Damian Ward is pulled into open resistance.

War pauses just long enough for a new race to begin. Barron drives into the Badlands to seize an ancient warship before the Union can turn lost imperial technology into absolute power.

Erik Cain is free, the Triumvirate is ready, and the last war for human space has begun. Fathers, sons, mercenaries, and old admirals rally for one final stand.

Barron returns with news of the Hegemony, a powerful state built on genetic hierarchy and overwhelming force. The Confederation is divided at the exact moment it most needs to unite.

The Union is preparing a final assault behind an ancient superweapon called the pulsar. Barron and the crew of Dauntless launch a stealth mission deep into enemy space to destroy it.

The Hegemony finally strikes, and the Rim burns. Outnumbered in space and on the ground, Barron and his people fight a desperate delaying war against an enemy bent on conquest.

The Hegemony has reached Megara, the Confederation's heart. Barron prepares one last defense and a wild gamble that may be the only thing standing between survival and collapse.

The rebels of Haven have won a first victory, but Federal America is already preparing a stronger return. Damian Ward and his allies must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to stay free.

Earth Two survives through secrecy and nerve, but waiting out the enemy is no longer enough. Max Harmon gambles on a strike against the Regent's antimatter base before the trap snaps shut.

The Union war is over, but Barron leads the White Fleet into the Badlands in search of lost imperial science. What they find is far more dangerous than buried technology.

Born in the Gut, the worst slum on Parsephon, Andromeda Lafarge is determined to claw her way into a bigger life. Her road leads into the Badlands, where old imperial tech can make a fortune or get her killed.

Barron leads an offensive he believes is a trap, while Andi Lafarge hunts the old empire's answer to the Highborn threat. Victory at the front may mean nothing if home space falls behind them.

Fresh off a hard-won victory, Barron faces a new Hegemony superweapon, a vast battleship carrying an even worse secret. The war for the Rim is about to turn again.

With the Far Stars nearly free, Ark tries to step back from war and from Astra Lucerne. Then a discovery gives the emperor a path to strike again, and Ark is dragged back into the fight.

The Hegemony holds the Confederation's capital, and waiting means defeat. Barron rallies a battered coalition for a bold counterattack to take Megara back.

Barron and his allies prepare for an all-out fight against the Highborn, enemies with terrifying reach and far superior technology. To survive, they must learn what they are really facing.

The war with the Hegemony barely ends before a darker enemy comes out of deep space. Barron must unite old foes and skeptical politicians before all humanity is subjugated.

Andi and the crew of Pegasus roam the Badlands chasing relics from a dead empire. Their next job, on a dangerous ocean world, could shift the balance of the next great war.

The Highborn are closing in, and Fortress Striker may be the Rim's last shield. While Barron prepares for a crushing assault, Andi Lafarge races through the Badlands searching for the one weapon that might change everything.

Barron and Andi split over how to end the Highborn threat. He trusts a conventional defense, she backs a desperate viral weapon, and both choices could lead to catastrophe.

Earth Two faces danger from within and from the Regent's looming discovery. Humanity splits its strength between defending home and launching a near-impossible strike at the enemy's core.

Humanity is battered, divided, and running out of time as the war with the Highborn reaches its last stage. Barron and his allies fight on multiple fronts for the future of the galaxy.