Kevin Ikenberry Books in Order

Kieran wakes without memories and learns that a secret program gives him one year to recover his identity or face execution. A scientist tasked with manipulating him develops feelings that complicate a mission tied to Earth’s survival.

Training as a combat pilot on Mars, Kieran nears a vital breakthrough while hostility toward his program grows. Back on Earth, an artificial intelligence takes human form and seeks revenge, just as authorities condemn him to death.

Rejected by a military academy, Mairin agrees to an experiment that improves her body and implants her ancestor’s combat experience. Preparing to command troops against an unfamiliar enemy, she confronts questions of identity, duty and unexpected love.

A salvage crew accepts a lucrative contract to retrieve an enormous satellite from deep space. Rival captains, concealed motives and uncertainty about their target turn the promised payday into a dangerous test of cooperation and survival.

Geneticist Evan Clarke develops technology to imprint dead soldiers’ memories onto their descendants as war approaches. Human opponents and uneasy alien allies threaten the project, leaving a young recruit’s survival central to humanity’s desperate defense.

Kieran joins the defense of an alien ally, but a crisis on Earth abruptly calls him home. A dead enemy’s surviving protocol threatens everyone tied to his program, while his comrades face the approaching battle without him.

Kevin Ikenberry explains how plot, theme and character goals work together to give fiction structure. Drawing on the failed first novel and later breakthrough that shaped his own career, he offers a practical approach for planners and discovery writers alike.

Mike Sandhurst’s armored cavalry and Vivian Llewelyn’s air squadron prepare for battle on Heske. A cunning alien assault and divisions within their own ranks force the units to adapt quickly if they are to survive together.

A disastrous forward deployment sends human forces rushing toward another threatened world. While Mike Sandhurst trains his cavalry, wounded pilot Vivian Llewelyn fights to return to duty, and their squadrons test new aircraft against an increasingly dangerous enemy.

After surviving a disastrous encounter with insectoid invaders, Mike Sandhurst is reassigned to armored warfare. Learning to command modernized tanks, he must help defend a colony world against an enemy that has already devastated his former unit.

Sandhurst’s battered tank regiment fights to secure Paradise while a potential alien alliance unsettles human command. Enemy attacks, betrayal within the air wing and intelligence failures threaten the task force’s ability to hold its position.

After losing a vital colony, human forces assemble a task force to retake an island on an alien world. Sandhurst’s tanks and Llewelyn’s pilots must overcome poor preparation, unfamiliar terrain and a new enemy variant to establish a foothold.

Human forces and their Rhino allies push across Honalee toward the last enemy hive on Paradise. Unfamiliar tactics, uneasy cooperation and mounting air losses test whether the combined force can withstand a massive Buzzer counterattack.