Michael Hicks Books in Order

A concise beginner's guide to getting a book onto Kindle. Hicks walks through the basics of formatting, publishing, and the practical steps new authors need before they hit upload.

Returned to humanity by the Kreelan Empress, Reza Gard comes home to suspicion, grief, and charges of treason. As he tries to become a Marine, politics, ancient forces, and divided loyalties drag him toward another impossible fight.

After the Kreelans kill his parents, young Reza Gard is swallowed by the Confederation's orphan system and sent to the brutal world of Hallmark. When Tesh-Dar returns and takes human children for a strange experiment, Reza's life changes again.

Reza Gard wakes from a coma to accusations of murder and treason while a power-hungry senator reaches for control. With humanity and the Kreelans racing toward disaster, Reza has one last chance to stop a war that could destroy both species.

The survey ship Aurora thinks it has found a dream system for human expansion, then stumbles into the ancient Kreelan Empire. Only midshipman Ichiro Sato survives the bloodbath, carrying a message back to Earth that means war.

As humanity reels from Kreelan attacks, a rogue colony threatens to ignite a second war from within. Secret missions, political mistrust, and Tesh-Dar's arrival turn a fragile situation into a deadly trap.

Allison Murtaugh's birthday ends in horror when Kreelan warships destroy her world. While she struggles to survive under the eye of the feared priestess called Dead Soul, help races toward a slaughter that may already be too late.

Reza Gard is taken from the human Confederation to the Kreelan Empire as part of a dangerous experiment to see whether humans have souls. His coming-of-age inside enemy territory turns war, prophecy, and forbidden love into one sprawling saga.

FBI agent Jack Dawson hunts his best friend's killer and finds himself staring at stolen seeds, ruined evidence, and a terrifying biotech secret. To stay alive, he must trust Naomi Perrault, the very scientist he suspected all along.

Attorney Avery Moore wakes in a white room, naked, bound, and unable to speak. As he realizes he is being kept alive for another man's monstrous needs, survival becomes a test of sanity as much as endurance.

Drawing on his own early career, Hicks explains how he moved from unpublished writer to successful self-publisher. The book covers production, promotion, pricing, and the habits that helped his work find readers.

A year after the first disaster, Jack Dawson and Naomi Perrault are out of power and out of time. As hidden research resurfaces and horrors erupt across the globe, they realize the real nightmare is only beginning.

Long before humanity met the Kreelans, their world was locked in endless war. As the Dark Queen rises, a child named Keel-Tath is born under prophecy, and her survival could change the fate of an empire.

Keel-Tath has survived temple training, but sanctuary will not last. Forced into exile and hunted by the Dark Queen's followers, she begins a brutal journey across a broken world where betrayal is never far behind.

Jack Dawson wakes from a coma to a world already collapsing under the harvester threat. While nations resort to desperate measures, Naomi races to build a weapon that might save humanity, if it does not damn them first.

In the last months of World War II, OSS analyst Peter Miller uncovers a secret Nazi weapons project far worse than rockets or jets. Disguised as an SS officer, he enters Germany to stop a machine that may open a road to Hell.

Keel-Tath and a small band of loyal followers stand between their people and disaster. With the Dark Queen advancing and the old priesthoods failing, the final struggle for the Kreelans' future turns desperate.

This nonfiction collection gathers student stories about the personal struggles that pushed them away from school. Reflection questions at the end of each chapter make it useful for discussion, writing, and classroom empathy work.

In a far-future Roman Empire rebuilt after ancient catastrophe, Princess Valeria heads toward the feared Dark Lands in search of answers. What begins as curiosity becomes a dangerous journey into legends that may be true.

Alien explorers walk through the ruins of Earth and try to understand why humanity chose extinction. Short and bleak, it plays like a post-mortem on a dead civilization.

Aria, a hardened transgender ex-soldier with a violent past, never expected love to find her in Sebastian. When the crime lord she once served kidnaps him, Aria goes back to war to get him back.

When enemies fail to kill Reza Gard outright, they send him and his friend Eustus into the Confederation Marines' worst posting. To survive the Red Legion, Reza must outlast criminals, disasters, and a trap laid by his old foes.

After nearly a century of pain and disgrace, Tesh-Dar is ordered to find the human foretold in prophecy. Her search binds Reza, Wiley Hickock, and Esah-Zhurah to a fate that may save, or doom, both species.

Laura flees her abusive husband with her daughter, Cass, and takes shelter with Kyle, a man she only knows online. Their escape becomes a tense chase by land and sea when Laura's husband refuses to let them go.