Joseph Lallo Books in Order
Browse Joseph Lallo books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and easy starting points for his fantasy and science fiction worlds.
Last updated: July 8, 2026
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Publication Order
47 books
Jade
by Joseph Lallo
2010
Jade Rinton seems trapped in a twisted fairy tale, stripped of family and held in a tower by a dragon. But fate has other plans, and this quiet side story turns into something warmer, stranger, and more hopeful than it first appears.
The Book of Deacon
by Joseph Lallo
2010
Myranda Celeste has spent her life hating the war that defines her homeland. When she finds a fallen soldier's precious cargo, she is pulled into a quest that will change what she knows about magic, the war, and herself.
The Great Convergence
by Joseph Lallo
2010
Armed with new knowledge and fresh resolve, Myranda sets out to find the five fated heroes known as the Chosen. Each ally brings hope, but every step toward peace asks more of her than the last.
Bypass Gemini
by Joseph Lallo
2011
Former race pilot Trevor Lex Alexander is reduced to making freelance deliveries after a fixed race destroys his future. Then one package drops him into a mess involving mobsters, a megacorp, and a mad scientist.
The Battle of Verril
by Joseph Lallo
2011
Myranda and the Chosen face their hardest trials in the finale of the original saga. Victory, betrayal, and desperate battles bring the war to its breaking point, but the real question is what kind of ending awaits their world.
Unstable Prototypes
by Joseph Lallo
2012
Lex's brief return to normal life ends when the eccentric inventor Karter Dee is kidnapped. With help from Dee's AI, Ma, Lex has to pull together a rescue team before dangerous inventions fall into the wrong hands.
The Rise of the Red Shadow
by Joseph Lallo
2013
Before he became the feared Red Shadow, Lain was an orphaned malthrope sold into slavery. This prequel follows his hard road through cruelty, love, vengeance, and the lessons that shape the warrior he will become.
Artificial Evolution
by Joseph Lallo
2014
After tangling with VectorCorp, Lex and Michella find their careers under attack. A fake fluff assignment, a terrorist chase, and a forgotten world soon collide around a weapon that could put far more than one life at risk.
Free-Wrench
by Joseph Lallo
2014
In a world choked by toxic fug, Amanita Graus leaves safe, artistic Caldera to search for a cure for her mother's illness. Her only real chance lies with the strange crew of an airship called the Wind Breaker.
The Other Eight
by Joseph Lallo
2014
Superheroes exist, but most of them are not exactly impressive. When the government tries to assemble a team, it gets a mismatched bunch of underwhelming powers and a fiasco that feels suspiciously like reality television.
Skykeep
by Joseph Lallo
2015
Months after leaving Caldera, Nita and the Wind Breaker crew have earned a name for themselves, and plenty of enemies. A new plot threatens to split the crew apart and ground the ship for good.
The D'Karon Apprentice
by Joseph Lallo
2015
Months after victory, Myranda, Deacon, Ivy, and Ether are trying to hold a fragile peace together. Then a long-forgotten force stirs, and diplomacy starts to look every bit as dangerous as war.
The Redemption of Desmeres
by Joseph Lallo
2015
After the war, Desmeres Lumineblade finds himself without purpose for the first time in his long life. A search for clarity in the darker corners of Vulcrest turns into a dangerous path toward redemption.
Between
by Joseph Lallo
2016
Philo Middleton wakes up in a strange chamber with no memory and no way home. In the Between, where science barely works and magic rules everything, survival means finding allies before the world swallows him whole.
Ichor Well
by Joseph Lallo
2016
The Wind Breaker crew has become the stuff of legend, which is exactly the sort of thing that attracts ambitious enemies. Nita soon finds that a worthy villain can be every bit as dangerous as the fug below.
Temporal Contingency
by Joseph Lallo
2016
Just when Lex is close to reclaiming his racing career, Karter Dee uncovers a threat too big to ignore. Another impossible mission pulls Lex back into danger, and this time even his usual talent for improvisation may not be enough.
Rogue Derelict
by Joseph Lallo
2017
After an empire falls, even a quiet life can be wrecked by the wrong ship in the wrong place. This fast-moving space adventure turns a derelict into the center of a dangerous scramble for survival and control.
Structophis
by Joseph Lallo
2017
Markus Spiros expects a quiet errand at his uncle's bistro and ends up with an illegal baby pizza dragon instead. Keeping Blodgette safe means dodging the law, a corrupt CEO, and every complication that comes with instant parenthood.
The Crescents
by Joseph Lallo
2017
With the war over, Myranda and the Chosen travel across the sea in search of a cure for their damaged land. What they find in the Crescents is a hidden history, uneasy politics, and a threat their world never saw coming.
Beta Testers
by Joseph Lallo
2018
After a badly judged mission goes wrong, Garotte sets out to fix the damage before it grows worse. To do it, he teams with Silo and relies on dangerously untested gear from the ever-unreliable Karter Dee.
Cipher Hill
by Joseph Lallo
2018
The Wind Breaker crew heads into another dangerous job where reputation only makes them bigger targets. For Nita, Cipher Hill brings fresh secrets, new pressure, and the kind of trouble that never stays local for long.
Entwell Origins: Ayna
by Joseph Lallo
2018
Long before she became a powerful wizard, Ayna Reedwind was a frightened fairy child with nowhere safe to go. This novella follows the trials that lead her to Entwell and the future waiting there.
The Adventures of Rustle and Eddy
by Joseph Lallo
2018
Rustle, a curious fairy, and Eddy, an equally curious merman, meet by chance and set off into the sea together. Their friendship turns into a bright adventure full of wonder, danger, and things neither of them expected to find.
The Calderan Problem
by Joseph Lallo
2018
Trouble tied to Caldera drags Nita back toward the home she once left behind. Old loyalties, local politics, and airborne danger collide fast when the past refuses to stay neatly in the past.
The Stump and the Spire
by Joseph Lallo
2018
This short collection returns to the Book of Deacon setting with two companion tales. The title story follows children who uncover a buried book and wand, and the second turns back to a hunt for the Red Shadow.
A Traitor in the Shadows
by Joseph Lallo
2019
A perfect eclipse photo should have made Alan's week. Instead, it leaves him with nightmares, a sense of being watched, and a hidden conflict of cults, white-suited strangers, and living shadows.
Halfax
by Joseph Lallo
2019
A princess has inherited her family's terrible luck, and an assassin's strike makes the danger impossible to ignore. Queen Jade sets out to find a cure, but even the great dragon Halfax may be in over his head.
Indra Station
by Joseph Lallo
2019
Lex finally has a chance to get back to the racing life he thought he had lost. But Michella is convinced the league is hiding something ugly, and their second chance may tear them apart before the race even starts.
The Balance of Shadows
by Joseph Lallo
2019
Peace in the city turns out to be a fragile thing. As rival powers start maneuvering again, Alan, Jessie, and Blot have to keep a shadow war from becoming something much harder to stop.
The Prison of Shadows
by Joseph Lallo
2019
Alan and Blot are pulled deeper into the hidden war they barely understand. A place built to contain danger turns into a battleground, and getting out may be easier than learning who is really in control.
The Story of Sorrel
by Joseph Lallo
2019
Sorrel and her twins have spent years searching for a safe place to live. The new land they find looks like a refuge, until the shadow of a terrible beast reminds them that running never stays simple for long.
Contaminant Six
by Joseph Lallo
2020
Nita and the Wind Breaker crew are thrown into another high-flying crisis when a dangerous contaminant threatens their fragile world. Solving it will take nerve, engineering, and more trust than this crew usually likes to give.
Nova Igniter
by Joseph Lallo
2020
Lex has survived mobsters, megacorps, and robot disasters, but history still finds new ways to come after him. As cyber-attacks close in and his allies vanish, he has to unravel the threat before the whole galaxy pays for it.
Paradoxes and Dragons
by Joseph Lallo
2020
This anthology gathers ten short stories and novellas that bounce between science fiction and fantasy. Expect odd creatures, AI trouble, time-travel mischief, and returns to some of Lallo's stranger corners.
The Coin of Kenvard
by Joseph Lallo
2020
Myranda and Deacon helped save their world, but peace has not made life easier. As Deacon's strange affliction worsens, they have to face new anomalies before history finds a way to repeat itself.
Paradoxes and Dragons Volume 2
by Joseph Lallo
2021
A second collection of offbeat sci-fi and fantasy tales, this volume keeps the mix of humor, invention, and genre play intact. It is a good pick if you like short reads built around weird ideas and quick momentum.
The Bygone Archive
by Joseph Lallo
2021
The Maskers are finally making progress, which is exactly when their rivals become more desperate. A lost archive hidden in the Greater Lands Wall may hold the edge they need, if Fel can survive what guards it.
The Bygone Dagger
by Joseph Lallo
2021
The Masker family antique shop needs a miracle, and Fel Masker thinks he can find one in a dangerous old vault. Ancient traps, rival hunters, and powerful artifacts make this treasure hunt anything but simple.
The Bygone Mask
by Joseph Lallo
2021
Success has only made the Maskers' enemies bolder. Fel needs help from his estranged sister while dangerous technology, family strain, and new threats keep pushing the whole clan closer to the edge.
Top Level Player
by Joseph Lallo
2021
Jazz thought testing a prototype brain scanner was a reasonable gamble after a terminal diagnosis. Instead, she wakes in a chaotic digital afterlife and has to level up, make friends, and figure out who trapped her there.
The Bygone Caper
by Joseph Lallo
2022
A powerful inspector is convinced the Maskers are hiding something, and unfortunately he is right. Fel has to protect a shop full of dangerous artifacts before they end up in hands with much darker plans.
The Bygone Plague
by Joseph Lallo
2022
With an artifact stolen and enemies closing in, the Maskers head north into a plague-ridden forest. Recovering what was taken may mean risking disease, quarantine, and a mystery deadlier than either.
Quantum Shift
by Joseph Lallo
2023
Lex only wanted a better racing simulator. Instead, he and Karter Dee break time itself, and now Lex has to cross alternate realities and broken timelines to put his world back together.
The Bygone Way
by Joseph Lallo
2023
A brief calm ends when ancient enemies start moving again and old secrets break loose. Fel and his allies have to cross the world to stop a bygone age from swallowing the present whole.
The Clash of Shadows
by Joseph Lallo
2024
The uneasy balance between light and shadow is finally starting to break. Alan and his allies are pulled into more open conflict, where every hidden truth makes the city more dangerous.
The Other Eight vs The Icon
by Joseph Lallo
2025
The mismatched heroes are back, but the chaos is bigger and more personal this time. A showdown with the Icon means weak powers, bad odds, and just enough determination to make things spectacularly complicated.
The Truth of Shadows
by Joseph Lallo
2026
Secrets have a way of surviving even in a war made of light and darkness. Alan and his friends must face what has been hidden from them, and what ending that truth will demand.
Where should I start?
If you want epic fantasy first: The Book of Deacon → The Great Convergence → The Battle of Verril
If you want space adventure: Bypass Gemini → Unstable Prototypes → Artificial Evolution
If you want steampunk airships: Free-Wrench → Skykeep → Ichor Well
If you want urban fantasy: A Traitor in the Shadows → The Prison of Shadows → The Balance of Shadows
If you want a genre mashup: Between → Structophis → Top Level Player
Author bio
Joseph Lallo grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey, and for a long time writing was something he did almost in secret. He has said that storytelling was part of home life early on. During month-long family camping trips in Vermont, his mother would make up bedtime stories, sometimes pulling in ideas from the kids as she went. Later, video games and daydreaming did the rest.
One of those daydreams got very big.
The seed of what became The Book of Deacon started when he was young, then kept growing for years in spiral notebooks. Lallo has talked about carrying those notebooks around through school and college, writing scenes whenever he had the chance. By the time he reached an ending, the story had sprawled across a stack of handwritten pages. Friends pushed him to type it up, then pushed him again to try publishing it when he was ready to give up.
That mix of stubbornness and good advice changed his career.
Lallo studied at NJIT and earned a master's degree in computer engineering. For years, he worked in information technology and paid the bills the practical way, while writing in the background. He published The Book of Deacon in 2010 as an indie author, and the audience came gradually at first. He kept experimenting, kept revising, and kept releasing more work. By September 2014, the books had grown enough for him to leave his IT job and write full time.
A lot of readers meet him through The Book of Deacon, an epic fantasy that begins with Myranda Celeste, a war-weary young woman who stumbles into a much larger fight. Others come in through Bypass Gemini, which swaps swords for spacecraft and follows the wildly unlucky pilot Lex Alexander through a fast, funny run of trouble. Then there is Free-Wrench, a steampunk series about Amanita Graus, airships, engineering, and a toxic world above the fug. He has also written stranger side roads like Between, which drops an amnesiac man into a place where science barely works, and A Traitor in the Shadows, an urban fantasy about a photographer and his very unusual shadow.
His books jump between fantasy and science fiction, but they tend to share a few things. He likes capable people who are in over their heads. He likes found-family crews, practical problem solving, and worlds with their own rules and gadgets. Even when the stakes get large, there is often a thread of humor running through the story.
He also seems to enjoy building settings from the ground up, whether that means a continent shaped by a century of war, a galaxy full of racers and megacorps, or a skybound steampunk society held above poisonous haze. The technology and magic can get flashy, but the stories usually stay anchored to a handful of people trying to do the next difficult thing.
Outside the novels, Lallo has been active in the indie author world through podcasts and writing conversations with other authors. He has been involved with Six Figure Authors and previously co-hosted the Science Fiction and Fantasy Marketing Podcast. It fits the shape of his career. He learned by doing, kept adjusting, and then turned around to share what he had learned.
He has lived in New Jersey for most of his life, first in Bayonne and later in Colonia. These days, his catalog stretches across epic fantasy, space adventure, steampunk, urban fantasy, and short fiction collections. But the through-line is easy to spot. Joseph Lallo writes like someone who still enjoys the moment when a strange idea first turns into a story.
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