MA Rothman Books in Order
Explore MA Rothman books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where-to-start tips for his thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, and LitRPG.
Last updated: July 8, 2026
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Publication Order
21 books
Perimeter
by MA Rothman
2018
Levi Yoder, a Mafia fixer facing terminal cancer, wakes to an impossible remission and a new target on his back. When the CIA says the Russian mob is hunting his family, he is dragged into crime, politics, and the secrets of his late wife.
Primordial Threat
by MA Rothman
2018
In 2066, Burt Radcliffe learns an approaching black hole will destroy Earth in less than a year. Humanity's slim hope rests on a vanished genius, an unfinished defense system, and a solution nobody can yet explain.
Darwin's Cipher
by MA Rothman
2019
Cancer researcher Juan Gutierrez discovers a genetic pattern that may unlock immunity to cancer and predict evolution itself. As others see darker uses for his work, an FBI analyst begins finding impossible cases that all connect.
Dispocalypse
by MA Rothman
2019
In a post-apocalyptic state ruled by a feared Governor, seventeen-year-old Willow is just trying to survive school and grief. Her father's death and a run of strange dreams force her to question everything she has been taught.
Never Again
by MA Rothman
2019
When Rivka Cohen insists her husband was murdered, Levi Yoder steps into a case the authorities want buried. The trail leads through old hatred, political corruption, and a conspiracy with roots reaching back to Nazi Germany.
The Inside Man
by MA Rothman
2019
Levi Yoder is pushed between the FBI and a Japanese mob boss when a child vanishes and murders start piling up. To save the girl and clear his name, he has to chase answers that may point disturbingly close to home.
Freedom's Last Gasp
by MA Rothman
2020
Priya Radcliffe has trained for a place in humanity's new spaceborne military, only to be diverted into a mission she knows nothing about. In a future where aliens are real, the most dangerous force may still be human ambition.
Running From Destiny
by MA Rothman
2020
After his parents die in an explosion, Jason Rogers is blamed by a secretive agency and thrown into custody. On the run with Anya, a girl trapped in the same hidden world, he learns his future may have been written long ago.
The Code Breaker
by MA Rothman
2020
Jeremiah lost his past to a fever and gained the ability to hear thoughts. When he finds a dead KGB agent in his apartment, he is shoved into a chase involving covert operations, old explosives, and an ancient prophecy.
Agent of Prophecy
by MA Rothman
2021
Princess Arabelle's easy life ends when a long-vanished poisonous creature attacks her. To save herself and those she loves, she must survive the poison, find the prophecy's heirs, and help bring down a centuries-old tyrant.
Heirs of Prophecy
by MA Rothman
2021
An earthquake hurls Ryan Riverton and his family from the modern world into Trimoria. Marked by prophecy and hunted by a dark sorcerer, they have to learn fast if they want to survive this new land.
Lords of Prophecy
by MA Rothman
2021
Trimoria is preparing for its last great fight, but chaos is spreading on every front. Assassins, failing wizards, and a startling arrival from a lost civilization all complicate the coming war against the demon lord's forces.
Patriot
by MA Rothman
2021
CIA operations officer Connor Sloane uncovers proof that terrorists have finally obtained a nuclear weapon. When politics blocks every attempt to stop them, he has to choose between protecting his career and exposing a threat to the homeland.
The Death Speech
by MA Rothman
2021
Connor Sloane hunts an assassin targeting the US president during a heated election season. With linked attacks in Europe and a missing nuclear expert in Africa, the plot widens fast and time becomes his biggest enemy.
The Plainswalker
by MA Rothman
2021
Former Special Forces soldier Peabo Smith volunteers for a secret experiment under Quantico and ends up somewhere he cannot explain. Stranded in a world that plays by altered rules, he has to survive long enough to learn what he has become.
Tools of Prophecy
by MA Rothman
2021
The Riverton brothers are no longer just trying to survive Trimoria, they are being shaped for war. As they train their powers and help raise armies, assassins close in and the final showdown draws nearer.
Multiverse
by MA Rothman
2022
Particle physicist Michael Salomon proves faster-than-light particles exist, then starts receiving what feel like memories from the future. When the government seizes his research and a stranger warns him about what is coming, science turns into survival.
The Sage's Tower
by MA Rothman
2022
Peabo reaches the Sage's Tower barely alive and learns that survival may cost him his old self. The women there can either kill him or turn him into a weapon this world has not seen in thousands of years.
The Swamp
by MA Rothman
2022
Levi Yoder is asked to stop a threat linking organized crime with corrupt insiders in Washington and Europe. The deeper he goes, the clearer it becomes that the real swamp is built from smiling officials and hidden agendas.
New Arcadia
by MA Rothman
2023
After a reconnaissance crash, Staff Sergeant Kaminski wakes in a rural Appalachian hospital with a missing month and a head injury. The town seems kind, but when a teammate does not recognize him, he knows New Arcadia is hiding something.
Time Trials
by MA Rothman
2023
Marty Cohen, a former Egyptology scholar turned woodworker, is pulled back to Egypt when strange visions and newly found texts refuse to leave him alone. Soon he and a ragtag team are thrown into the deep past, where failing humanity means extinction.
Where should I start?
If you want a science thriller: Darwin's Cipher
If you want hard science fiction: Primordial Threat → Freedom's Last Gasp
If you want crime and espionage: Perimeter → The Inside Man → Never Again
If you want LitRPG and portal fantasy: The Plainswalker → The Sage's Tower
If you want younger-skewing fantasy: Agent of Prophecy → Heirs of Prophecy → Tools of Prophecy
Author bio
M.A. Rothman did not take the usual path into fiction. He built a long career as an engineer in Silicon Valley, working from a background in science and math, and for years that looked like the obvious shape of his professional life. By his own telling, if you had asked his old English teachers whether he would become a novelist, they would have laughed.
Then he had kids, and the bedtime stories started.
That turned out to matter. Those stories gradually grew into a writing life, and eventually into a body of work that moves across thriller, science fiction, fantasy, and LitRPG. Rothman has described himself as an accidental novelist, which feels like a fair label. His fiction did not come from a tidy plan to become a writer. It came from storytelling at home, a practical mind, and the habit of following an idea until it became something much bigger.
His engineering background shows up all over the page. Rothman says he tends to write about technology and international intrigue, and that really is the center of gravity for much of his work. In Primordial Threat, a cosmic disaster becomes a race against time shaped by scientific thinking. In Darwin's Cipher, cancer research, genetics, and law enforcement collide in a tense medical thriller. In Multiverse, a particle physicist makes a breakthrough that turns his life into a nightmare of future memory, secrecy, and government pressure.
He also writes thrillers that stay closer to the ground.
The Levi Yoder novels, beginning with Perimeter, follow a Mafia fixer with a conscience who keeps getting pulled into problems that grow from local danger into international trouble. The Connor Sloane books, including Patriot, lean harder into intelligence work, terrorism, and political obstruction. Different setup, same instinct: put capable people under pressure and see what happens when the system around them is not nearly as reliable as it looks.
There is another side to Rothman as well. His fantasy work often has a younger or crossover feel, but it is still built on momentum, stakes, and clean storytelling. The Prophecies books grew out of bedtime stories for his children, and that family-story origin still fits the series. Agent of Prophecy and the related Trimoria novels are full of quests, warnings, and young characters forced to grow up quickly. The Plainswalker and Time Trials show him playing in yet another mode, mixing portal fantasy or time travel with game-like structures and a strong adventure engine.
He does not seem especially interested in staying in one lane. That is part of the appeal.
On his site, Rothman notes that he was the first-born American in his family, which feels like the kind of small but telling detail he likes. He talks about work, curiosity, and storytelling more than literary mystique. When he is not writing, he says he enjoys cooking, learning about new technology, travel, and spending time with his family. That mix of interests tracks neatly with the books themselves. They are curious, busy, and usually built around the question of what smart, determined people do when the world suddenly becomes far stranger than they expected.
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