Joel Shepherd Books in Order

Cassandra Kresnov, an experimental military android, deserts the League and hides in the city of Tanusha. A failed assassination drags her back into politics and war, forcing her to fight for survival and the right to exist.

Now working security on Callay, Cassandra is drawn into the chaos around a vote to leave the Federation. Terror plots, underground factions, and a League delegation make every alliance feel unstable.

Callay is under siege from Federation hardliners, and Cassandra learns the League built a kill switch into her brainstem. To stay alive and protect her adopted world, she has to disappear and fight from the shadows.

Princess Sasha rejects court life to train under the warrior Kessligh, becoming one of Lenayin's fiercest fighters. But with religion dividing her homeland and people projecting destiny onto her, sword skill may not be enough.

In the shadowed trading city of Petrodor, Sasha and Kessligh try to prevent war through diplomacy and grit. Politics, old loyalties, and the uncertain role of the serrin make every move more dangerous.

The serrin city of Tracato stands at the center of a looming war, and Sasha is torn between family, homeland, duty, and love. Every choice pushes her closer to civil war and personal ruin.

As the armies of Regent Arrosh drive toward Saalshen, Sasha turns against the cause her people are serving. The finale brings retreat, betrayal, and desperate diplomacy as whole nations fight over what kind of world will survive.

Cassandra leads a brutal assault on Pyeongwha, then heads into New Torah where dangerous new synthetic soldiers are being built. On Pantala, war, conspiracy, and three street kids push her loyalties in unexpected directions.

Sandy returns to Callay with proof that synthetic technology is becoming a threat to all humanity. Political sabotage, threats to her agency, and danger to the children she rescued force duty and family into direct conflict.

On the run in the Outer Spiral, Phoenix has proof that old alliances and old histories may be lies. Erik must win help from alien powers and ancient survivors before a buried machine threat catches up with humanity.

After the destruction of the moon Cresta, Sandy Kresnov races to uncover a cure for a spreading technological madness. Saving her family may mean trusting an old enemy and risking another war.

After Captain Pantillo is killed and Erik Debogande is framed, the battle-carrier Phoenix goes on the run. With Trace Thakur at his side, Erik chases a conspiracy that could rewrite humanity's understanding of its wars.

Phoenix sets out to find a lost data-core that may explain an ancient machine war and humanity's danger. The trail leads to a near-impossible vault job where success depends on deception, nerve, and uneasy allies.

Phoenix races to recover the long-lost drysine data-core, but Erik can reach it only by dealing with the parren leader holding his sister hostage. Another deadly force is closing in, determined that no one keeps the prize.

While Phoenix is rebuilt on Defiance, rival factions battle over ancient drysine knowledge. Erik is pulled toward the far edge of Spiral space, where the croma, the reeh, and a long war may decide humanity's future.

Stranded on reeh-occupied Rando, Major Trace Thakur must rally desperate allies and strike the genetic command center called the Rando Splicer. Meanwhile Phoenix is trapped in Croma power struggles that could doom the rescue.

Phoenix hunts for the AI Ceephay Queen while using a wider war as cover. Erik, Trace, and Styx descend into the ruined city of Qalea, where buried history may hold the key to saving humanity.

Deep in Reeh Empire space, Phoenix makes its boldest move yet, trying to reach the Ceephay Queen that helps hold the empire together. The mission becomes part heist, part infiltration, and full of bad options.

Phoenix is finally heading home when a new offensive erupts at Tuki Station. With the old AI mastermind Nia driving the attack, Erik has to guess what the enemy really wants before humanity's defenses break.

After years searching the galaxy for a way to stop an AI threat, Phoenix returns to Homeworld to find Fleet close to fracture. Erik faces civil war, buried secrets, and a danger hidden since humanity's first conquest.