Michael Anderle Books in Order

Experimental nanocytes leave Lieutenant Ava Landyn struggling with unpredictable transformations. An alien race capable of remote telepathic control threatens her home system, forcing her team to confront political subversion while Ava battles changes within herself.

Ryder and the Merry Gang attempt to free a hostage and challenge Afana’s control of the bunker. Their mission is complicated by the Madness, which threatens to destroy them before they can bring freedom to the captives.

Astrid struggles to govern a small nation after dismantling its oppressive system. When a mysterious portal releases creatures from another world, the Wellspring Knight must balance leadership with defending the people against an unfamiliar enemy.

After nations contain an apocalyptic threat, a dangerous ecosystem grows in the Sahara. Dr. Christopher Lin joins the effort to investigate the ZOO, where retrieving vital scientific information means surviving lethal plants, animals, and rapid environmental change.

A phantom Chimera is damaging the wall that protects humanity from the ZOO. Dr. Christopher Lin proposes a mission to stop it, but unexpected changes to the approved plan leave his team confronting dangers they did not anticipate.

Giles Kurns returns to fieldwork with Arlene, pursuing a lead on a relic wanted by the Federation. Complications aboard ship and problems on the world they visit tempt him to intervene beyond the original mission.

Tina, Maxim, Yana, Ron, and their classmates approach graduation from the Etheric Academy. With the route back to Earth damaged, a mission for justice becomes an adventure that tests their readiness for adulthood and their future together.

Former marine Jack Marber and his alien trading crew struggle to keep their ship and livelihood. A paid assignment from Nathan Lowell offers opportunity, but accepting it means representing the Federation that expelled Jack from military service.

Doctoral student Salinger Jacobs is abruptly taken from California to the Sahara to investigate the ZOO. With untrained scientists surviving only hours inside its boundaries, he must learn weapons and field survival alongside his scientific work.

Caitlin follows the Governor’s rough map in her search for the Unknown, but the route leads her astray. A rebel city, a disturbing woodland encounter, and secrets underground complicate her mission as the Mad threaten her world.

The Shadows expect an easy diplomatic visit to a grieving queen, but her quest to cure death has gone disastrously wrong. An accidentally released treatment transforms their assignment into a struggle with consequences worse than ordinary mortality.

Former gang member Kaiden Jericho earns a place at elite Nexus Academy after a fight changes his prospects. Military training and the immersive Animus offer opportunity, but becoming an exceptional recruit involves painful simulations and a costly commitment.

Caitlin and the Revolutionaries pursue the fugitive Governor through woods infested with the Mad. Reaching a town controlled by the mysterious Firestarters complicates their attempt to stop him from causing further harm.

Arryn hunts former Arcadian guards terrorizing the Valley and Craigston. When Storm Raiders join their new leader Esmerelda, she must confront a stronger alliance and help an unfamiliar people already suffering under the raiders’ attacks.

A signal on Ogg-Estarian military radar suggests an outside threat, but Molly’s greatest problem arises from the planet itself. She rallies the Sanguine Squadron and calls on old allies to protect the Sark System and Federation.

Valerie and her Elites face a massive enemy fleet with only the possibility of recovering a legendary weapon. Meanwhile, Kalan’s imprisonment uncovers a mystery that may help their fight to protect friends and strengthen the Federation.

Barnabas answers a distress call while returning to High Tortuga and becomes involved in a naval captain’s murder. A nearby black-operations ship threatens approaching vessels, suggesting the victim and the apparently simple case conceal dangerous secrets.

After three years meditating in the wilderness, Wellspring Knight Astrid enters a land controlled by magic users called Movers. To uphold her oath to defend the weak, she seeks unlikely allies against rulers who maintain power through fear.

Astrid’s claim to leadership faces resistance from the former ruler’s lieutenants. A deal with visiting weapons merchants gives them magitech that lets ordinary soldiers wield magical firepower, threatening her efforts to protect the people and establish justice.

Astrid and her companions challenge Protector Lungu’s oppressive rule, prompting increasingly violent retaliation from his magical lieutenants. Joined by former bandits, the Righteous Dregs must defend innocent people while resisting the ruler’s attempts to regain control.

Nickie initially ignores a plea for help, only to become entangled in a mission involving a volcanic labyrinth and a rock monster. Her aunt Tabitha’s diary offers parallel lessons about assumptions, trouble, and life on the frontier.

Bethany Anne wants to leave her throne and reunite with Michael, but creating a Federation threatens the Empire she built. She must navigate conflicting demands from prospective partners without surrendering everything needed to secure that future.

Jack Marber and the Shadows take the Fortitude to the moons of Taglen to investigate a developing crisis. An unknown enemy wants them dead, forcing the crew to uncover the problem while surviving attacks directed at their ship.

Ryder wants to challenge Afana, but her small band of supernatural allies cannot safely attack him alone. With help from Massimo and Leandro, she searches for the larger force needed to turn resistance into a real chance at justice.

After twenty years held captive under a mutated vampire’s rule, Ryder gets a chance to escape. She chooses to seek justice for the prisoners instead of simply fleeing, but newly emerging zombies make confronting their oppressor far more dangerous.

Holly Smith listens to another account of life inside the deadly ZOO while pressure from New York grows. JB’s possible hidden motives and an improbable story make her question whether she understands enough to enter safely.

Holly reaches the French encampment hoping experienced ZOO survivors can explain its dangers. JB has his own reasons for helping her, leaving Holly to separate useful truth from tall tales before pressure from America forces a decision.

Holly Smith is hired to enter the ZOO, an alien jungle in the Sahara, and find information about a valuable chemical. Her experience with dangerous expeditions may not prepare her for what this unnatural ecosystem contains.

Barnabas has struck hard at the Yennai Corporation, but its surviving founder Koel wants revenge. As the company gathers its remaining resources to hunt him across space, Barnabas prepares for a confrontation that could decide their struggle.

Bethany Anne Nacht and her people confront the Kurtherians after aliens attack their world. Facing powers that have destroyed civilizations for millennia, they enter a cosmic contest where protecting their people means challenging seemingly overwhelming enemies.

Nathan insists on a mission beyond Federation territory, sending Terry and Char into danger aboard the War Axe. Bad Company must persuade local aliens that it has come to help while confronting an especially frightening enemy.

Valerie and her team travel through a foreign galaxy seeking a legendary lost fleet. Their mission also requires stopping a shapeshifter from building an army against the Etheric Federation, while unreliable contacts threaten their progress.

Barnabas wants to rescue his captive, brainwashed friend Jeltor after striking at the Committee's research facility. But the Committee also plans to transform the Brakalon population into an army, forcing him to weigh friendship against planetary survival.

Nickie returns to find her colony devastated and pursues the Skaines responsible. Meanwhile, Tabitha and her companions hunt their own target on Karkat, confronting slavery and arms trafficking while testing what justice and revenge mean.

Hannah and Team Triple B face disappearances in New Romanov as Lilith's life fails and the Laughing Queen approaches. Saving those she loves requires Hannah to push her magic further, risking consequences she may not understand.

Eighty years after civilization fell, Boris has built a stable realm, but enemies threaten it from the west and south. Dividing his forces means entrusting a command to his untested heir Olaf, putting family and kingdom at risk.

After their home is destroyed, the Furlorians flee into space, where survival requires more than escape. Taj seeks an alliance with their enemy's enemy while the displaced cat people face another battle that could end their species.

Damian settles uneasily into life as a warrior priest while guiding Max through struggles of his own. Their demons resist the arrangement, and mounting danger forces Damian to decide whether friendship or duty will govern his response to the church.

Barnabas and his ship's AI Shinigami investigate the armed support sent to High Tortuga's slaveholders. Their search reveals the Yennai Corporation's reach, drawing them into a confrontation that also threatens the mine workers Barnabas freed.

Molly's supposedly routine mission becomes a farce, testing her leadership and revealing how much she has changed. Meanwhile, Director Bates investigates a plot on Estaria that challenges citizens' assumptions about the Federation's ability to protect them.

Terry Henry Walton leads a paid fighting force of humans and supernatural allies across Tissikinnon Four. Bad Company's attempt to deliver justice becomes complicated when the warring factions prove different from what its members expected.

Caitlin, Kain, Mary-Anne, and Jaxon try to stop humans and Weres from tearing the Broken City apart. As both factions prepare to revolt, an influential psychopath intensifies the crisis and threatens everything they have rebuilt.

Arryn prepares for war in the Dark Forest while discovering how far her friends and family will go to support her. With allies and familiars beside her, she sets out to confront the dark druids.

Knight Riley has pledged to protect her king and country, but a dark mage gathers an army in the north. His dangerous magic and connection to the kingdom's past threaten to overwhelm the defenders Riley must lead.

To save the Oracle, Hannah's team divides between an ancient mountain and a haunted jungle. While Hannah faces demanding magical combat and Karl attempts diplomacy, both groups must navigate unfamiliar cultures to secure the means of saving Irth.

Bethany Anne's respite on High Tortuga is interrupted when her people are attacked. Alongside family adventures and schemes among her friends on New Devon, the renewed threat forces her to consider taking her forces to war.

Valerie's intelligence mission on Tol becomes a fight to free slaves and challenge the ruling power. Working with local allies, she enters deadly contests and battles across the planet to bring her own form of justice.

Telepath Ava Landyn investigates the aliens responsible for transforming her into a Hochste. With her home system threatened, she leads a reconnaissance mission, but using her new abilities may advance the enemy's plans rather than stop them.

Former lawman Barnabas discovers that Venfirdri Lan has secretly kept a mine operating with unpaid workers on High Tortuga. Aided by his advanced ship and its aggressive AI, he sets out to end the exploitation.

Barnabas pursues the Yennai Corporation's main base after discovering that Uleq is involved in the campaign against him. His enemy's troubles complicate the hunt, threatening to bring an entire fleet into the confrontation.

Lawyer Rivka Anoa faces punishment for killing a murderer when she is offered another path. Sent into space with authority to judge and punish criminals, she must decide whether she can live with this new responsibility.

Heavy Metal's promotional footage reveals that someone on Sal's team has extraordinary driving abilities. Rivals want to seize that advantage, forcing the mercenaries to defend their own against opponents with capabilities they do not fully understand.

Wallace receives orders to lead politicians into the ZOO as more governments seek access to its resources. Doubting both the mission and the ability to contain the alien jungle, he must navigate dangers beyond its creatures.

Sal tries to expand his company while Courtney questions a proposed hire and an unexpected call disrupts the team. Balancing personnel and income becomes urgent when failure could leave them vulnerable to the ZOO's deadly inhabitants.

Dr. Christopher Lin must enter the ZOO for a third time after being manipulated by someone he wanted to save. Alongside the alien jungle's dangers, he faces people determined to keep its profits for themselves.

The Dark Queen sends an unwilling agent to spy in the Fae King's court, reopening an old conflict. When her secrets surface, the spy must rely on uncertain allies while protecting a truth tied to herself.

Salinger Jacobs and Heavy Metal face mercenaries threatening their base while Courtney encounters opposition within her company. An unpredictable AI joins the defenses, complicating a struggle against wealthy enemies both inside and outside the ZOO.

Wallace receives orders to retrieve Kemp alive from the increasingly dangerous ZOO. After his encounter with the German ambassador leaves him questioning his instructions, he must decide how far obedience can carry him through another hazardous mission.

Stranded in the Earthly Realm, Tess has lost every memory of her identity and purpose. Surrounded by enemies and uncertain allies, she must discover why she was sent there before her forgotten mission to save the world fails.

Riley escapes a brutal confrontation in New Perth, but the dark mage Rendal holds Mason captive aboard a ship bound for Sidnie. Her next struggle centers on reaching her captured ally while facing an enemy with powerful advantages.

Caitlin follows scattered clues into the wilderness to find Helena and a cure for the Madness. With her companions facing mounting danger, the journey risks capture and infection as she searches for the truth behind its spread.

Billionaire heiress Chloe agrees to spend two years inside a full-immersion game to escape her family's expectations. Her avatar connects to an amnesiac goddess, and recovering the goddess's armor demands responsibility Chloe has long avoided.

Chloe and her gaming companions search for more pieces of KieraFreya's missing armor while rival players and another god interfere. Each discovery strengthens the goddess within her, raising the danger that Chloe could lose control of her body.

Fugitive Tessa travels with rogue Finn while both Fae courts seek her capture. The compulsory Hundred Years Ball threatens to expose them among their enemies, forcing Tessa to weigh her mission against uncertain trust in her companion.

Fantasy and science fiction authors have secretly prepared humanity for a war across nine realms. When the Dark One attacks their writers' conference, they must exchange writing tools for weapons and defend the people their stories were meant to warn.

An alien destroyer evades Bad Company's sensors and threatens its station. Terry Henry Walton leads a desperate response, forced to pursue unconventional measures when ordinary defenses cannot detect the enemy endangering his people's home.

Bethany Anne tries to aid new planetary allies while the Ooken and a newly empowered Kurtherian complicate the fight. Meanwhile, Lance Reynolds struggles to restrain the Leath from a rescue mission that could violate Federation rules.

A breakthrough with the Etheric gives Bethany Anne a chance to strike at the Ooken and liberate Moen. Family tensions and production problems complicate preparations while the Kurtherians' interference pushes her toward a broader confrontation.

Deaths at a shipyard raise questions about unsafe working conditions and whether apparent accidents conceal crimes. Rivka must weigh labor complaints and conflicting evidence while navigating legal problems that test her roles as prosecutor and defender.

Sal Salinger works on his dissertation while building a mercenary company with Madigan and Courtney. Training recruits through simulated ZOO missions seems manageable, until Courtney brings in a new California member whose suitability Sal doubts.

Holly negotiates funding for three more expeditions into the ZOO, balancing her company's demands against the danger. Amanda faces a personal problem, while Hickok's covert work leaves him with a murder he needs to conceal.

Hickok juggles a covert assignment with helping Holly save JB. A serum offers temporary stability, but Holly still needs to prepare for another ZOO expedition, and JB's impatience threatens to undermine the search for a cure.

JB heads toward the ZOO intending to die, forcing his friends to attempt a rescue. Holly turns to old contacts for funding, while Hickok and Marcus face agents determined to track them down and end their operation.

Holly plans another trip into the ZOO as efforts to treat JB reach a dangerous stage. Testing the serum could kill the man she wants to save, while Hickok considers a drastic approach to helping his friend.

Holly must decide what to do with a discovery that could change lives, while keeping JB's medical breakthrough secret. Meanwhile, the covert group faces decisions about its future as hostile agents continue hunting Hickok.

Holly edges closer to a treatment for JB, but needs more material from the ZOO to test it. Amanda questions the ethics of their experiments, while Hickok begins reassessing the covert organization that employs him.

Holly races to understand the ZOO before JB's condition worsens beyond help. Hickok must return to its dangerous territory for material she needs, linking his next mission directly to her efforts to keep their friend alive.

Holly struggles with what she has learned about the ZOO and the operative known as the Ghost. With JB dying, she must decide whom to trust as Hickok offers a way to stabilize his condition.

Gin Sonny turns the Animus into a weapon against Kaiden Jericho, threatening to leave him brain-dead. Kaiden and Chief need a refuge while teachers, friends, and support staff struggle to stop a killer whose plans remain hidden.

Chloe nears the end of her quest while enemies inside and outside Obsidian conspire to stop her. Searching parts of the game never intended for human players may reveal the missing armor pieces needed to save Hammersworth and the mortal realm.

An enemy targets Chiyo's father's company, pushing Kaiden and his friends into a conflict with trained mercenaries. Chief's growing integration adds another risk, since Kaiden's neural link remains fragile as they prepare to intervene.

Lieutenant Gregor Popov faces trial after a mission to rescue Russian scientists with Heavy Metal. Sal, Madigan, and Courtney may become targets themselves, while Savage pursues a concealed operation with Molina that complicates matters further.

Heavy Metal's videos bring attention the team never wanted, putting one of its members in danger. Sal, Madigan, and Courtney prepare to defend their friend, using their knowledge of the ZOO to turn the terrain against attackers.

Alexis and Gabriel, the Empress's children, find themselves separated and lost in time. Far from familiar support, they must navigate unfamiliar circumstances in space while confronting challenges that force them to grow beyond their protected upbringing.

Robert Fletcher needs to rescue Beth from the Dark One's territory, but his party is not ready for the challenge. Mercenaries, difficult training, and new quests stand between him and a mission with no second chances.

Terry and Char confront an alien artificial intelligence threatening lives across the galaxy. Their teams return from leave to a changed battlefield, where upgraded military strength must contend with an enemy and the civilians caught between them.

Riley Trident brings her new magical powers to Sidnie, where Hemmons closes schools and trains warrior mages to conquer New Perth. With her friend Mason's life threatened, she must resist a sorcerer determined to find her.

Kaiden enters his third year of Animus training, facing leadership challenges in capture-the-flag exercises. A protection assignment in San Diego then tests whether he and his friends can apply their lessons beyond the academy's controlled environment.

Humanity has forgotten the other eight realms and built a world around science instead of magic. As the Dark One overruns those realms, Earth becomes the final battleground, leaving its unprepared inhabitants to confront an unfamiliar enemy.

Wallace's orders send the team back into the ZOO to confront mercenaries, but political maneuvering threatens their mission. Hall pursues plans of his own, while Pepper and Gunnar help the group handle dangers inside and outside the perimeter.

Holly's questions about JB's past draw her toward a mysterious killer and the operative known as the Ghost. As she investigates connections to the ZOO, the answers make it harder to know which people she can trust.

A military veteran from the edges of human space and an Earth detective are drawn into a murder investigation. Their search leads toward a hidden moon and questions about an alien war that officially never happened.

Ava and Manny take on a mission to capture a creature from the ZOO, bringing Manny's unusual fears into the field. With Peppy and Gunnar involved, the team's personal difficulties complicate an already hazardous encounter with mutated wildlife.

A scorpion escapes the ZOO's containment wall, and Manny suspects the creature is pregnant. He and Ava pursue it through the desert, hoping to stop its spread before the danger inside the perimeter reaches the outside world.

Medical-school dropout Ava Martin works for the government, but a helicopter delivery leaves her stranded in the ZOO. With no military rescue available, her survival depends on Manny, a pilot whose unpredictable behavior makes relying on him difficult.

A week after a surge breaches the ZOO's containment, Ava and Manny join a rescue effort. The creatures have developed a new tactic that could trap the team, turning an urgent mission into another fight to escape.

Kessler wants new combat suits tested in the field, but nothing inside the ZOO makes for a safe trial. Ava, Manny, Peppy, and Gunnar must adapt their equipment and teamwork to threats that keep changing around them.

Kessler imposes restrictive rules on Ava and Manny as the base focuses on increasingly dangerous creatures. Their assignments bring them up against gorilladillos, a Mandrillion, and the Damned Monkeys, making bureaucratic interference another obstacle to surviving the ZOO.

Claire receives an unexpected university acceptance and discovers that she can see mythical beings across the Veil. At a Boston academy, she and her leprechaun friend become involved in defending their world against a supernatural invasion.

A friend disappears after uncovering links between missing people, a secret government agency, and a computer game. Penny and Boots investigate with Cisco while break-ins and disturbing encounters suggest modern inventions are crossing the Veil alongside ancient myths.