Joshua James Books in Order

Ambushed behind enemy lines with green recruits and a foul-mouthed AI, Lucky Lee Savage has to survive a war he barely understands. The deeper problem may be what is tearing at space-time itself.

Humanity's luck has run thin, and Lucky's part of the war only gets uglier. The scale grows, the pressure mounts, and the fight moves closer to the heart of the enemy.

Payback is in the air, but revenge never arrives neatly. Lucky and his people are still standing after repeated waves of disaster, which mostly means they are available for the next one.

Under siege and left with almost nothing, Lucky faces a last stand on an alien world. Survival now depends on holding together under impossible pressure.

Lucky's first victory only makes him more enemies. As the fallout spreads and new threats close in, he has to keep his shaky team alive through consequences nobody saw coming.

The universe is fully broken and Lucky knows it. Just when things could not get worse, the war finds a way to prove him wrong and give him a fresh reason to hit back.

The final confrontation arrives with ships gathering over Nar and truth nobody wants to hear. What the crew brought back is far more powerful, and more contested, than anyone expected.

A dying order sends a desperate crew scrambling to protect a cure that could reshape the balance of power. On the last starship, saving lives and surviving the mission become the same problem.

What started as scattered attacks becomes open war. With the cult and the aliens closing in, the people who barely trust each other have to fight as one or lose everything.

The first real clues about the enemy come at a terrible price. As alliances shift and panic spreads, the survivors learn humanity is facing far more than a simple border threat.

A lost mission at the edge of human space opens the door to a larger nightmare. Soldiers, civilians, and outlaws are drawn together as the Oblivion cult and the Shapeless begin moving in the dark.

On a station that should be neutral ground, Lucky's troubles are anything but neutral. The crew is pulled into one more crisis where old enemies and bad timing do the rest.

Rescue never looks easy in Lucky's universe, and this one is worse than most. Lucky and company charge into another mess where survival and heroism are almost the same thing.

A simple mission goes impossibly wrong for Lucky Lee Savage and his crew. Cut off, outgunned, and still stubborn, they have to improvise their way through yet another disaster.

Five years after aliens destroyed their world and killed their parents, two brothers return for answers. One wants justice, one wants to survive, and neither is ready for the secrets waiting on Planet Hell.

What starts as another contract drags Lucky's crew into a conflict much larger than they expected. To survive, they have to navigate unrest, shifting loyalties, and the usual terrible odds.

The cure was only the beginning. As the Inversion grows more dangerous and more factions close in, the crew learns that possession of the answer may be even deadlier than the disease.

Lucky Lee Savage and his merc crew are hunting work in a broken galaxy when a new job drops them into trouble fast. Getting paid would be nice, but getting out alive comes first.

The campaign widens and the cost keeps climbing. Each new discovery exposes a deeper conspiracy, and even victory starts to look dangerously temporary.

Years after one brutal alien war, Captain Vin Husher answers an interdimensional distress call and flies straight into a trap. Cut off in a pocket universe, he has to keep his people alive long enough to warn humanity.

A disgraced captain, an alien invasion, and one last ship set the stage for a pulpy space war. Eli Bryce and his outcast crew are nowhere near ideal heroes, which is exactly why they are interesting.

Inside the hollow shell of the superdreadnought Atlas, an alien plan is taking shape. Friends and enemies alike must work together before the coming war wipes out humanity on a galactic scale.

Still trapped in a hostile pocket universe, Captain Vin Husher and his survivors fight to stay alive and find a way home. Every delay gives humanity's old enemy more time to prepare the next blow.

Money, mutiny, and starships make a bad situation worse for Eli Bryce and his people. Keeping the ship together becomes just as urgent as outrunning the enemy.

Eli and the crew uncover more of the conspiracy wrapped around them, and the obvious answers only make things murkier. In a galaxy built on lies, a little deception of their own may be necessary.

The final countdown begins as the war closes in on humanity's home. The fight has widened beyond any single crew, but stopping the end still comes down to a handful of people refusing to quit.

Pierce pushes deeper into hostile territory to learn what the enemy is planning. What he finds could shatter the truce, if he and his crew survive long enough to bring the warning home.

A desperate push for answers sends the survivors into even darker territory. The deeper they go, the clearer it becomes that the enemy's design reaches far beyond one battlefield.

A century after a brutal alien war, Captain Walker Pierce still does not trust the peace. When signs of treachery appear in disputed space, his aging battleship may be the first line of a new war.

The pressure on Eli's crew keeps mounting as enemies close from multiple directions. Survival now means absorbing loss without letting the whole ship break apart.

The long-feared attack finally comes, and humanity is badly exposed. Pierce and the Walker have almost no room for error as border conflict turns into a fight for survival.

After a long fight just to stay alive, the outcasts face the wider invasion head-on. The stakes finally reach the places and people that matter most.

Everything converges in a final bid to save humanity from the Oblivion cult and the Shapeless. The last survivors have one chance to turn chaos into resistance before the galaxy goes dark.

Just when the crew thinks one threat is finished, another wave crashes in. The outcasts are dragged into still larger fighting with even less margin for error.

The war heads straight for human space as hidden enemies move into position. To stop catastrophe, the scattered allies have to move faster than the forces steering the galaxy toward collapse.

The war with the Squadrons has always been personal, and now the bill is coming due. Eli and his crew are forced into a harder, more dangerous round of payback.

Lucky takes a job that should be simple, transport an assassin, pick up new crew, get paid, and leave. Instead he lands in a civil war with killers, hidden plans, and disaster waiting at every stop.

Lucky Lee Savage and his merc crew take another job hoping for cash and breathing room, then walk straight into a much bigger mess. Old loyalties and bad odds make profit the least of their worries.

It is the moment of truth for Eli and the crew of the Outcast. If they are going to matter at all, it has to be now, with everything on the line.

Old grudges come roaring back as Eli Bryce tries to keep his patched-together crew alive. Personal score-settling and wider conspiracy start colliding in dangerous ways.

Aboard the Gaea Ark, survival is no longer the only problem. As human divisions sharpen and outside threats close in, the people meant to save civilization begin turning on each other.

An increasingly unstable mod is on Gunn and Salvo's trail, and the galaxy is not getting any safer. The bounty hunters have to keep moving even as the larger conspiracy starts snapping into focus.

While Gunn and Salvo try to learn more about the mystery wrapped around them, the chase keeps tightening. Every clue points to bigger danger, and every step forward seems to cost them something.

Old secrets and buried loyalties rise aboard humanity's last refuge. To keep the Ark moving toward a new home, its defenders have to stop collapse from within as well as attack from without.

Brynn Jameson and the Yellowjacket crew keep pushing through a war that is only getting worse. Every step toward safety opens another risk, and the enemy behind the invasion is getting harder to ignore.

Things go from bad to worse for Gunn and Salvo when Ren is trapped in Grey's ship and help comes from a dubious old friend. With a contract on their heads, every reunion brings fresh trouble.

Brynn and his people are battered, angry, and still very much in the war. When the chance comes to hit back, fury may be useful, but only if it does not get them all killed first.

A supposedly simple job throws bounty hunters Gunn and Salvo into a mystery far larger than their usual work. To stay alive, they have to outrun enemies, bad luck, and the truth closing in behind them.

After everything the crew has endured, the promise of home is still not simple. Old wounds, unfinished fights, and the cost of survival make the final leg of the journey its own battle.

A fragile peace is breaking, and the people on the front line know it first. When an old enemy stirs again, a battle-hardened crew has to meet the threat before humanity is ready.

Gunn and Salvo are running out of safe choices and safe places. As the hunt around them tightens, survival starts demanding harder sacrifices than either of them wants to make.

The continuing war forces Brynn Jameson and his crew into another impossible call. Personal grudges and system-wide disaster collide as the Yellowjacket tries to stay one step ahead of ruin.

The crew of the Yellowjacket is still stranded, hunted, and far from finished. To rejoin the wider war, they need repairs, allies, and more luck than a ship like theirs should ever expect.

After Earth is rendered uninhabitable, a fraction of humanity flees aboard the massive Gaea Ark. But the last refuge of the species is full of secrets, rival factions, and an enemy that may not be finished.

The Yellowjacket's struggle carries on through stranger worlds and harsher odds. As the crew learns more about the enemy behind the invasion, the cost of every answer keeps rising.

When a massive alien invasion hits the Engel Empire, the survey starship Yellowjacket is overwhelmed and left for dead on a hostile world. Captain Brynn Jameson and his crew have to survive before they can fight back.

Even as Captain Foster rushes to stop a Threqa attack, his own Union questions his loyalty. Strange powers tied to time and space may turn the war, if humanity can survive long enough to understand them.

For Uma Salvo, hope is in short supply as the pressure on the crew keeps mounting. The fight to stay alive turns into a fight to hold onto purpose at all.

With disaster closing in and the war widening, Vin Husher has almost no room left for mistakes. To save his people and warn the galaxy, he has to turn a battered force into one last counterattack.

The war turns deeply personal as old wounds and fresh losses push the Yellowjacket crew toward payback. Survival is still the goal, but revenge is now in the room with them.

The Yellowjacket crew is back in the fight, but never on equal terms. Besieged from without and strained from within, they have to keep moving before the invasion leaves nothing worth saving.

An ancient relic links a Mars dig, a murdered science team, and a frozen anomaly on Enceladus. Soldier Carpenter Lowell and scholar Peter Chang are pulled into a deadly race to unlock what it really does.

Roc pushes beyond the asteroid belt to gather allies and strike back. His battered ship and unstable crew are still humanity's best hope, but every victory drags them deeper into a brutal war.

With the artifact activated, the disaster on Enceladus starts rippling outward. Lowell and Peter Chang race to understand what they have awakened before the crisis spreads beyond Saturn.

The war grows wider and more personal as Roc and the Honor face enemies on every side. To keep humanity alive, he has to turn exile, resentment, and a misfit crew into something like resistance.

When aliens devastate Little Creek without warning, a beauty queen, a shopkeeper, a traumatized teen, and a weary veteran band together to survive. If they cannot fight back, it will not just be their town that falls.

What started as a desperate fight for one town becomes a last stand for far more than Little Creek. The battered survivors face the hardest choices yet as the invasion reaches its breaking point.

The search for answers turns into a fight over humanity's origins and future. As the truth behind Saturn's secrets comes into focus, Lowell and his allies are pushed toward a devastating endgame.

Exiled captain Roc Masters is stuck in the asteroid belt with an aging warship and a near-mutinous crew when aliens turn on Earth. Suddenly, his forgotten command may be humanity's best chance to hold the line.

The survivors of Little Creek learn the first attack was only the beginning. As the invasion spreads and the enemy's plans come into focus, they have to turn fear and grief into real resistance.

After the revelations around Saturn, Earth faces a fresh crisis that makes the earlier discoveries feel like warning shots. The final test is bigger, stranger, and much harder to contain.

The Gunn and Salvo saga reaches its final showdown as the mystery around them finally comes due. To survive the endgame, the bounty hunters have to go further and risk more than ever before.

The road to the frontier becomes a gauntlet of battles, betrayals, and impossible odds. Wolf and his crew keep chasing freedom even as the galaxy tries to close every door on them.

Gunn and Salvo are still hunted, still outnumbered, and still too tangled in the larger mystery to walk away. Another dangerous run through hostile space forces the bounty hunters to bet on nerve, speed, and each other.

The war reaches its breaking point as old sacrifices and new powers come due. If Captain Foster and his allies cannot turn the tide now, humanity may not get another chance.

A hunt for a mysterious artifact pulls a team of specialists into a dangerous web of secret history and modern conspiracy. The relic could change everything, if it does not kill them first.

The ENIGMA team chases another impossible object while enemies close in from multiple sides. Every answer opens a new threat as the relic war grows stranger and more dangerous.

Humanity has been conquered and forced to crew the ships of its oppressors, until Captain Bill Henderson discovers an ancient abandoned warship. Omega might be the first real chance to fight back.

Where the map ends, the hunt keeps going. The team's search pushes deeper into hidden history, buried power, and the kind of revelation that can rewrite the stakes of the whole series.

Earth is devastated, two million refugees are on the run, and Bill Henderson needs Omega to become much more than a shelter. To turn the tide, he has to take humanity's last hope deep into enemy space.

A crew of alien veterans who earned freedom fighting for humanity are framed after a disastrous mission. To clear their name and stay out of captivity, Thunderstrike has to run toward a war zone instead of away from it.

The framed veterans finally get a chance to hit back, but revenge is never simple in the middle of a larger war. To survive, they need answers just as badly as they need firepower.

With enemies on their tail and no safe port ahead, the Thunderstrike crew keeps moving through a galaxy that treats aliens as disposable. Every stop brings another fight and another secret behind the setup.