Mark Wayne McGinnis Books in Order

With powerful enemy ships approaching Earth, Captain Jason Reynolds must disable the distant travel network bringing them closer. His team’s only route crosses HAB 12, a lethal environment of enormous predators and hostile terrain that could end the mission before it begins.

Confined to his grandfather’s property, disgraced naval officer Jason Reynolds discovers an advanced alien warship beneath a scrapyard. With a powerful enemy approaching Earth, he reunites his old team and takes command of humanity’s unlikely defense against an interstellar assault.

A ruthless Craing commander raises the stakes for Earth and its allies as the war reaches a darker stage. Captain Jason Reynolds ventures into enemy territory in a desperate attempt to counter an empire seeking dominance for generations to come.

Surviving a devastating crash leaves Rob Chandler without his memories and with the ability to influence other minds. Pursued by people who wanted him dead, he must uncover his former identity and understand the presence that entered him.

An enemy deploys orbiting devices intended to send Earth a century into the past, but intervention produces even greater instability. Captain Jason Reynolds and his team must navigate spreading time distortions before competing eras tear the planet apart.

As enemy warships return to devastated allied worlds, Jason Reynolds faces the impending failure of vital internal technology. Leaving his family on Earth for a desperate mission exposes them to another threat: a pirate commander determined to kill him.

An elite fleet arrives to destroy Earth, forcing Jason Reynolds and his crew into another desperate defense. When swarms of alien creatures are unleashed on the surface, his family must rely on their own resourcefulness while rescue remains uncertain.

Captain Jason Reynolds attempts to rescue captive allies before confronting a vast enemy fleet. Admiral Ot-Mul's determination to make him suffer threatens both the reunited defenders and the people closest to Jason as the war approaches its final battle.

A threat to a fellow agent draws mind-influencing operative Rob Chandler back toward a fanatical organization. Infiltrating its leader's recreated Old West town reveals a wider political scheme and demands survival skills beyond his unusual mental powers.

After a disastrous football game, a Texas school team's bus is taken aboard an immense alien ship. Overlooked teenager Collin Frost joins the other captives in a fight for survival that forces him to discover unexpected resourcefulness.

With Star Watch's resources stretched, Ricket leads a small team to a mission that will test his technical ingenuity. Elsewhere, an undefeated enemy commander expands his cartel's territory and prepares to challenge Jason Reynolds in space.

After the Craing War, scattered planetary conflicts prompt the creation of an intergalactic peacekeeping force. Star Watch's first mission sends its crew against invaders holding prisoners in cloud ports, where battle debris threatens the people they hope to rescue.

Jason Reynolds travels to a memorial for his daughter after reports of a massacre during military trials. Evidence on arrival suggests Boomer may still be alive, drawing him into an investigation as the surrounding conflict threatens to widen.

An overwhelming fleet approaches the solar system while Jason Reynolds learns his daughters are trapped beyond their own universe. Searching for a way to retrieve them uncovers secrets surrounding his father's naval past and the origins of their alien technology.

A freight pilot's apparently minor collision begins a relentless pursuit by a determined killer. As Ryan struggles to survive across space, his family and Star Watch discover that the attack forms part of a much larger conspiracy.

A damaged alien spacecraft seeks refuge near a Tennessee ranch where Cuddy Perkins lives with his mother and dog. Treated cruelly because of an old injury, Cuddy is drawn into an encounter that overturns the familiar limits of his world.

A former elite investigator now working on distant frontier worlds pursues the killer of his wife and child. A routine spacecraft repossession brings him near renewed murders, turning an isolated ranching planet into the setting for a personal hunt.

Jason Reynolds plans a quiet trip with his son, but strange failures aboard a family spacecraft demand attention. The technical trouble reveals an emerging enemy, forcing the Star Watch crew to reunite before the unprepared planetary alliance is overwhelmed.

Giving a stranded stranger a ride sends Cameron Decker and his pickup truck aboard an alien spacecraft. After a crash leaves him on a hostile world, he must survive dangerous creatures and a murderous machine while seeking a route home.

Transformed by his alien encounter, Cuddy travels with family and friends to help a threatened civilization. Searching ancient vaults for truths linking two enemy peoples brings them against treachery, dangerous creatures, and a powerful hostile fleet.

Nine-year-old Scotty and his dog vanish from a Nantucket beach into an alien spacecraft. Subjected to harsh conditioning alongside other children, he becomes part of a mission tied to Earth's survival and returns years later facing an extraordinary responsibility.

Centuries after poisoned skies divide humanity, a privileged Cloudwalker descends to retrieve a fallen body. Meeting a woman from Manhattan's underground settlements forces both to confront inherited prejudices as threats emerge against their separated worlds.

Cameron brings Heather back to the alien world he once survived, only for an attack to destroy their plans. Separated by her abduction and the loss of their ship, they face different dangers with little hope of finding each other.

A troubled veteran inadvertently saves an alien observer whose species is deciding whether humanity deserves protection. With an invading empire approaching, Dominic assembles an unlikely team to seize Earth's narrow chance of avoiding subjugation.

Reunited aboard a starship, Cameron and Heather set out for an Earth overrun by enormous creatures. Damage to their vessel separates them again, leaving Cameron on a volcanic planet while Heather continues toward a home that may no longer exist.

After alien invaders destroy Earth's defenses and communications, former airman Brian Polk refuses to accept life under occupation. Acquiring enemy technology gives him a chance to resist, but turning that opportunity into freedom means confronting overwhelming power.

An alien hiding as a Chicago school janitor hopes to repair his ship without attracting attention. Intervening when a scarred teenager faces a gang's trap entangles him in human troubles and a much larger struggle over his distant realm.

An attack destroys much of a space fleet and leaves young officer Galvin Quintos commanding a crippled dreadnought. Bringing survivors home becomes harder when fuel dwindles, a murderer strikes aboard ship, and the enemy returns to finish its assault.

Still recovering from an attack, Quintos learns that a powerful alien force has allied with humanity's enemy. With his ship damaged and his crew scattered, he struggles to return to command before the new coalition can strike Earth.

Alien spores transform most of humanity into zombies, leaving scattered survivors to navigate the wreckage. Robotics billionaire Chad Wright and his team brave Black Canyon's dangerous rapids on a desperate journey to find his missing wife and daughter.

A physicist caring for five orphans races to reach a healing organism discovered on Mars. Saving a dying child requires perfecting antigravity technology while evading a ruthless billionaire willing to kill for control of the breakthrough.

As the alliance approaches collapse, Quintos leaves naval authority behind to pursue a desperate strategy against two enemies. Gaining pirate support requires proving himself through a dangerous theft, while an enormous alien warship becomes central to his plan.

Awaiting court-martial in a naval prison, Quintos is offered a covert rescue mission on behalf of an alien empress. Reaching a fleet pursued deep in frontier space first requires escaping detention and accepting the possibility of no return.

Refitting a replacement vessel, Quintos receives a plea from his former officer after an enemy trap catches her fleet. Rescuing her means confronting a massive new warship and considering an alliance with a former foe who may prove equally dangerous.

Former Green Beret Sam Dale is rebuilding his life in Colorado when his towing company is called to retrieve a crashed aircraft. Discovering an alien pilot puts him in the path of a fleet threatening Earth.

Alien troops surround Castle Rock as rival artificial intelligences continue their struggle for supremacy. Former Green Beret Sam, nurse Harper, and an AI inhabiting a golden retriever must find a way to help defend Earth against the advancing fleet.

An aspiring concert pianist resisting her father's expectations meets a wounded First World War aviator. Their attraction grows as his dangerous test-pilot career takes shape, leaving her torn between musical ambitions and attachment to a man repeatedly risking his life.

After surrendering a powerful vessel, Quintos takes command of an inadequately prepared replacement and searches for imprisoned comrades. Pursuit carries the ships into another universe, where disabled systems leave them exposed to a newly approaching hostile fleet.

A teenager with a failing heart boards a freighter seeking one last adventure. Disappearing crewmates and attacking robots draw Loni into a conspiracy, with a damaged-memory combat machine becoming an unlikely ally as she questions her own family history.

Retired combat captain Francis Miller now leads paid expeditions aboard a refurbished corvette. A trip toward an alien world's mysterious caverns becomes perilous as hidden agendas, poachers, dangerous creatures, and a possible murderer undermine his already troubled excursion.

With Earth's former defenders missing and hostile ships approaching, Mollie Reynolds leads a resistance with few remaining options. Recruiting a captain, seizing an advanced warship, and locating her father become essential steps in preventing humanity's defeat.

Quintos faces a new alien adversary and a cosmic threat linked to the lost USS Lincoln. As another ship risks the same fate, rescuing those he cares about demands decisions that place individual lives against the survival of his crew.

Withdrawn after personal losses, Quintos reluctantly returns to command when Earth faces attack. An enemy technology sends the planet into a freezing, hostile star system, forcing him to seek a dangerous bargain that might reverse the catastrophe.

Quintos abandons retirement to find a missing warship investigating a vast ocean world. An alien civilization draining planetary oceans threatens Earth next, forcing his untested crew into a rescue mission where both hostile technology and drowning endanger them.

Commanding a small experimental vessel, Quintos pursues a stolen dreadnought held by an immense insectile enemy. Untested military systems complicate the mission, while his niece's abduction draws unresolved pirate conflicts into an already perilous confrontation.

A catastrophic attack leaves Quintos commanding the wreckage of a once-powerful ship. With Earth under siege, his battered crew seeks a way to strike back while unstable alliances and the hunt for an alien queen threaten the remaining survivors.

Quintos leads an outmatched fleet against three enemy armadas aboard a technologically advanced warship. A manipulative chaplain undermines the crew from within, while a catastrophic failure and a dangerous assault test both his command and his closest relationships.

Quintos leads a battle group against a fungal-mechanical enemy consuming entire civilizations. Its uncanny tactical foresight threatens the fleet, while a pathogen spreading through artificial beings creates a second crisis among the ships sent to stop it.

An escort mission aboard a converted luxury liner brings Quintos against a species believed extinct for centuries. Rescuing captured colonists becomes entangled with a threat to his family far away, leaving him unable to fight on both fronts.

Quintos receives an aging dreadnought for a mission to aid a potential alien ally. A fungal-mechanical enemy and a cult's hidden ambitions turn the delivery into a survival struggle, forcing impossible choices about his ship and the threatened civilization.

To save a crewmate's family from ruin, Quintos enters a deadly race to steal minerals from guarded alien vaults. Rival crews and an old vendetta threaten the mission, while a medical crisis at home makes returning quickly essential.

A shuttle astronaut from 1984 crashes into a ruined Earth two centuries later. Dependent on a suspicious nomadic hunter, he crosses a dangerous landscape with a rogue AI while seeking answers before a looming celestial event changes everything.

Quintos takes a vast new warship on what appears to be a routine training cruise. An attempt on his life exposes a cult infiltrating the ship's systems and command, turning personal losses and institutional mistrust into immediate threats to survival.

After losing their warship, Quintos and his crew are trapped aboard an alien dreadnought controlled by a hostile intelligence. Broken trust, family secrets, and approaching enemy vessels complicate the struggle to gain control and escape.

Quintos commands an untested warship to recover eleven researchers missing on a remote planet. An enemy attack and disasters aboard threaten the crew before the rescue party reaches a world whose immense predators conceal even more dangerous mysteries.