JN Chaney Books in Order

Magnus and Awen are reeling from loss when new revelations force them into their hardest mission yet. To strike back, they will have to reach the notorious super-dreadnaught Black Labyrinth and survive getting aboard.

Magnus survives the first disaster only to find the galaxy growing more dangerous and more divided around him. This combined edition pushes the war outward as loyalties harden and the mission changes shape again.

Charged with treason by his own side, Magnus tries to get Piper safely to the Luma homeworld before her abilities attract even worse enemies. The trip opens into a larger fight for freedom across alien worlds.

Flint Reed is pulled deeper into the artifact mystery and the larger conflict circling it. The second book widens the universe while keeping the danger close, fast, and personal.

Ex-cop Flint Reed is the only thing between a terrorist cell and its hostages. Then the siege opens into a much larger hunt for ancient alien artifacts, and the day gets far worse from there.

This combined edition launches the series with Lt. Magnus on what should be a routine escort mission to a peace summit. One explosion later, he is trapped, hunted, and carrying intel powerful enough to start a wider war.

Dash begins turning raw survival into organized resistance. To fight a cruel old power, he has to become more than a pilot and start acting like a leader.

Dash survives the first shock of destiny only to learn the war is far larger than he guessed. New allies, bigger enemies, and the weight of the Archetype keep him moving.

Broke and desperate, Dash Sawyer finds the Archetype, an ancient mech hidden in an icy comet. Becoming its pilot turns him into humanity's best hope against an enemy that once lived to wipe humanity out.

The scale widens as Dash and his growing force confront deeper mysteries from the old war. Big battles and ancient secrets push the series into full space opera territory.

After a hard-won victory, Magnus learns the enemy's reach goes deeper than he feared. To stop what is coming next, he must cross the void horizon and search for answers before his resistance is crushed.

Dirk follows trouble into King's League's cyberpunk expansion, a realm of flying cars, crime, and heavier weapons. Survival now depends on allies as much as clever play.

The campaign carries Dash into stranger and more dangerous territory as the scale keeps widening. It is a lively, fast-moving entry with constant pressure and expanding stakes.

The war burns hotter as Thorn's division is pushed into harsher combat and bigger revelations. Every victory comes with a wider cost.

The war opens onto a broader political stage as old powers and new ambitions collide. Dash has to start thinking like a leader, not only a pilot.

Humans are being harvested, and the people who might save them are already off-world. Wic and Phantom Team take the fight into enemy territory, where every move could expose Earth to even worse destruction.

Dash reaches for bigger discoveries and bigger risks as he chases a path through chaos. What lies ahead could change the war, or finish it.

Thorn starts turning raw talent into organized resistance against the Nyctus. His strange gifts make him valuable, but they also make him a target.

Magnus and the Gladio Umbra are running on losses, pressure, and plans that keep slipping apart. As the wider conflict worsens, they have to hold the team together long enough to survive the next impossible turn.

Expelled and broke, Dirk Wilson scrapes by inside a massive game world until he finds a rare item. Suddenly, the lowest player on the ladder has enemies, prospects, and a reason to fight.

The Republic has fallen, rival powers are scrambling to reshape the galaxy, and Magnus is caught between them. To keep the future from sliding into tyranny, the Gladio Umbra must fight on more than one front at once.

Hope and duty start colliding as Dash tries to hold onto his vision without losing sight of the cost. The series keeps growing while the choices get harder.

A darker turn in the conflict brings pressure from every side. Dash and his team have to meet fear head-on before it swallows the momentum they have built.

In the aftermath of Moldark's fall, Magnus and his allies chase a new and even stranger enemy toward a final showdown. The series closes on all-out war, desperate hope, and the fate of the galaxy itself.

Marine Raider Patrick "Wic" Finnegan is sent to Antarctica to guard researchers digging into an ancient mystery. When what they uncover tears open a portal and unleashes an invasion, Earth starts falling apart fast.

Humanity is losing a brutal war to the Nyctus when abandoned boy Thorn Stellers discovers he is a mage unlike any other. With Kira Wixcombe and a renegade division beside him, he fights back with magic in deep space.

A dying world is packed with refugees, and Magnus cannot save everyone. While evacuation efforts strain the team to the breaking point, a dangerous Luma leader gathers power for the next stage of the war.

A crucial threshold becomes the center of the next major fight. If Dash cannot hold it, the balance of power across the stars shifts in a hurry.

Army Rangers and colonists wake from a forty-year voyage expecting a new start. Instead, the enemy that helped destroy Earth is waiting on their alien destination.

Magic and space opera meet at full volume as Thorn chases answers into more dangerous territory. The world gets bigger just as the pressure on its heroes tightens.

Distance, culture, and competing loyalties all push against Dash's growing coalition. Keeping friends united becomes as hard as beating the enemy in open combat.

Van digs into the darker corners of Peacemaker business and learns his inheritance came with enemies attached. Old secrets and ruthless powers start closing in around the Fafnir.

Van Tudor returns to Iowa and discovers his grandfather left him more than a farm, he left him a starship and a calling. With combat AI Perry beside him, Van heads into a lawless galaxy as a brand-new Peacemaker.

The final Starcaster book drives toward decisive confrontation, hard sacrifice, and the question of whether humanity can survive at all. Thorn's long fight finally reaches its reckoning.

Buried history comes roaring back as Dash confronts truths that reshape the war around him. Understanding where the conflict began may be the key to ending it.

With humans still stranded off-world, Phantom Team pushes deeper into enemy territory to bring them home. Rescue quickly turns into another high-risk operation where every gain exposes a bigger and uglier truth.

New reaches of space bring fresh danger and even harder choices for Dash and his allies. The farther they push, the more the war asks from them.

The war reaches a brutal tipping point as Wic and Phantom Team face heavier fire, harder choices, and the cost of every earlier victory. This is the kind of Ruins book where survival alone no longer feels like enough.

The war grows harsher and more chaotic as Dash is forced through another punishing campaign. Every advance costs something, and the galaxy is not getting any kinder.

The long struggle narrows toward power, leadership, and the future that will remain when the fighting stops. Dash faces the kind of decision that can define an entire era.

After their strike on Karkin Four, Wic and Phantom Team learn the enemy is preparing a brutal assault on New York City. To stop it, they will need a desperate counterattack and hard choices that could cost them everything.

Van's first real work as a Peacemaker pulls him toward harder criminals and bigger questions. Bounty hunting becomes a crash course in deep-space law, danger, and responsibility.

Dirk's place in King's League keeps changing as new lore, new dangers, and stronger rivals close in. The game rewards bold moves, but punishes every careless one.

The Nyctus threat grows overwhelming, and Thorn must answer it with everything he has learned. The action stays fierce, but the emotional stakes remain close and personal.

There is no easy way back to Earth. Stranded and under pressure, Wic and his team join forces with unlikely allies and head into even deadlier ground, where survival means fighting through the enemy's world instead of escaping it.

The Rangers and colonists keep fighting for their foothold on a hostile alien world. Brody's strange help, enemy pressure, and fresh discoveries make the mission even messier.

The colony's secrets start drawing bigger threats out of hiding. Reach, the Rangers, and their allies learn that finding answers can make the whole planet more dangerous.

In this short bridge adventure, Jack Romanoff gets a chance to save his Navy career by securing a freighter after a pirate attack. The job turns into a nasty standoff, and the cargo is too dangerous to lose.

Jack Romanoff finally gets to hit back at the Locusts, but only by attacking New Copenhagen and holding it. If he loses that system, billions stay trapped and humanity loses its best weapons.

The Fafnir heads into darker territory where isolation and hidden threats work against the whole crew. Van has to hold the line when the void itself starts feeling hostile.

A fast-moving new crisis throws Van and the Fafnir into trouble where timing matters as much as firepower. Shifting alliances and sharp space action keep the pressure on from the start.

After rescuing hundreds of civilians, Jack Romanoff and his battered crew end up stranded with the Locusts closing in. To escape, he has to hold together uneasy allies and impossible odds.

With his ancient battleship repaired and the invasion's true cause exposed, Jack Romanoff starts liberating the cluster. Then betrayal from an unexpected quarter threatens to wreck everything from inside.

Van pushes farther into unknown space and into trouble that will not stay neatly contained. The farther he travels, the more his choices start affecting whole systems, not just one crew.

The past refuses to stay buried as imperial shadows resurface across known space. Van must deal with old power structures that still know how to hurt people in the present.

Open conflict forces Van and his allies into harsher fighting than ever before. The action is big, but the real test is whether the crew can survive what war keeps taking from them.

Power struggles widen as Van faces enemies who think the stars should belong to the ruthless. Justice gets harder to defend when every small victory invites a larger war.

Chase Weston and Evangeline Cortez keep digging into the truth behind the Sunkillers. What they uncover threatens far more than one dig site, and plenty of people want them stopped.

Van's fight grows beyond one ship and one crew as he runs into threats tied to the wider history of human expansion. Legacy, duty, and survival start colliding in bigger ways than ever.

The search for answers becomes a larger journey across hostile space. Chase and Evangeline are now chasing alien history while old enemies and new dangers close in from every side.

This prequel novella steps away from the main line to show earlier lives in the Backyard Starship universe. It adds useful backstory and gives key characters more shape before the bigger saga rolls on.

Old loyalties fray as Van faces betrayals and painful choices that cut close to home. It is a turning-point entry about what can still hold together under extreme pressure.

Dirk Wilson's King's League journey moves into another dangerous expansion full of new rules and enemies. To keep climbing, he has to master the game before the game buries him.

Bodyguard Chase Weston thinks he is protecting an archaeologist on a risky alien dig. Then buried ruins reveal an ancient warning, and suddenly everyone wants the secret beneath the sand.

Victory at New Copenhagen comes at a brutal price when Jack loses his quantum drive. To keep fighting, he must free prisoners, fortify the system, and persuade mysterious aliens to help.

Dirk finds that even a virtual world can break in ways that feel very real. Bugs, rivals, and hidden threats turn King's League into a fight for more than loot.

Jack Romanoff has liberated Argent and finally has room to breathe, until the Poseidon Group strikes from the shadows. To survive, he must expose traitors before they leave his people defenseless.

Captain Jack Romanoff is headed for retirement when he gets one last chance, restore an ancient super-warship with a crew of rejects before the Locusts return. If he fails, humanity may not survive the lesson.

Dirk enters a high-stakes contest where every rival wants status, prizes, and payback. Winning means using everything he has learned across King's League's strange realms.

The colony's fight for survival grows more complicated as old enemies and new factions press in. The Rangers, Brody, and their allies must decide how far they will go for freedom.

The Wayward Galaxy war moves toward its endgame as fragile alliances strain under pressure. Rangers, colonists, and AIs face choices that could decide the future of their new world.