Michael Robertson (Shadow Order) Books in Order

When an immersive entertainment system draws nearly everyone online, Jake and Tom remain outside it. Living among the ruins of the former world, they struggle against starvation and the corporation controlling the system in pursuit of survival and freedom.

Short stories and flash fiction combine supernatural threats with the cruelty, betrayal, and fear people inflict on one another. Vampires, zombies, alien encounters, and strange experiments provide varied settings for unsettling choices and disturbing discoveries.

Pregnant and grieving, Marie has fallen from privilege into an exploited underclass. Holding evidence that could expose the corporation controlling society, she must decide whether challenging its power is worth the danger to herself and her unborn child.

Marie hides a pregnancy that could condemn her to poverty while working for a corporation overseeing virtual prisoners. Discovering corruption presents a possible route to security, but mishandling the information could bring the company's power down on her.

Ten years after a failed revolt left London in ruins, Matt resolves to stop hiding and fight again with his daughter. Reconnecting with the surviving revolutionaries means entering streets patrolled by the drones of the victorious elite.

When a disastrous outbreak erupts from the Alpha tower, Rhys has no survival plan. His immediate goal is reaching his son before the virus does, as the surrounding chaos forces him into a desperate struggle to protect his family.

Rhys returns to an infected city to rescue his ex-wife and best friend before the authorities incinerate it. Releasing the buildings' sealed shutters may offer escape, but it will also unleash fresh danger onto already chaotic streets.

After rescuing his ex-wife, Rhys discovers their son is missing from the meeting point. Following the boy's trail with her, he races against the spreading plague and a violent pursuer determined to destroy them.

Rhys and his companions escape the infected only to become trapped atop a shipping container surrounded by a vast horde. Temporary safety gives them a chance to rest, but survival depends on finding a way down without being overwhelmed.

Vicky and Flynn reach an underground settlement that appears to offer security after years of danger. As she tries to protect him, signs of a threat inside the community challenge her belief that they have finally found refuge.

After overthrowing a corrupt leader, Vicky helps govern the underground community that shelters Flynn. War with a brutal neighboring settlement forces her into command, making the group's survival depend on the fighting skills she hoped no longer to need.

Given a choice between joining the Shadow Order and remaining imprisoned, Seb and Sparks accept service. Their first assignment takes Seb to a cold, hostile planet, where the realities of the work quickly make him question his decision.

Gifted with powers that make him unbeatable in fights, Seb struggles with the reckless decisions that follow his fearlessness. An attempt to start over collapses after encounters with a thief and a secretive organization pull him into greater danger.

A shuttle crash strands rookie Marine Reyes and her squad on a scorched planet populated by beasts their weapons cannot defeat. With water running low, she sees a possible weakness, but convincing experienced soldiers to trust her becomes essential.

Still grieving a lost companion, Seb faces an assignment to destroy parasites that have wiped out a mining colony. Refusing could mean defying the Shadow Order's leader, while accepting could send him and his friends to their deaths.

After clearing a colony of parasites, Seb suspects the Shadow Order's leader may have caused the disaster for profit. Seeking proof means abandoning his obligations and becoming a fugitive pursued by a powerful enemy with a bounty to offer.

Flynn believes Vicky abandoned him, unaware she was murdered by people running the community that keeps him safe. Discovering the truth will force him to choose between secure shelter and revenge in a hostile world beyond it.

Having escaped a ruthless self-appointed queen, Flynn and Rose decide to return and stop her advance on their former community. Building an army requires freeing her prisoners, a mission that risks recapture by an enemy unlikely to grant another escape.

Having completed an assignment, Seb refuses to abandon people oppressed by the Crimson Countess. Building an army from frightened slum residents offers a chance to overthrow her, but failure would leave those same people facing devastating retaliation.

With proof confirming his suspicions, Seb returns to confront the Shadow Order's leader. Supported by his friends, he hopes to end both the organization's hold over him and the burden of prophecy, but securing a peaceful future proves more complicated.

After his father's death, a man sober for twenty years begins drinking again and seeing a masked figure invisible to others. Understanding the apparition may be his only way to save his family and sanity, or the beginning of something worse.

Beginning compulsory service beyond Edin’s walls, Spike faces infected attackers, harsh orders and an officer determined to see him fail. Becoming a protector’s apprentice may offer his desired future, but obedience threatens the people he most wants to save.

As chaos spreads through the galaxy, Seb and his companions prepare for what they hope is their final mission. Defeating Enigma could fulfill the prophecy surrounding him, but they must first discover where their elusive enemy can be found.

At eighteen, Edin’s young people must leave the city for compulsory service fighting diseased hordes, and only half return. Spike, Matilda and their friends enter that deadly world determined to survive the system that treats their losses as expected.

Back aboard a warship after a deadly mission, Reyes joins an investigation of an apparently abandoned vessel. The boarding becomes another desperate fight against overwhelming odds, while she struggles to find the courage to speak honestly with her father.

Leaving Edin with little beyond painful memories, William and his friends follow a map toward other communities. The wilderness offers no safe delay, forcing them to balance hope for a better home against the immediate need to survive.

Matilda returns to Edin hoping to free her imprisoned brother, only to discover that the city’s open gates have admitted the diseased. With companions beside her, she must face a rescue far more dangerous than confronting official resistance.

After preventing war, Marcie must repair the damage her deceptions caused to two friends. Getting one to safety and securing the other's lung transplant requires crossing a militia-infested wasteland to Prime City, where new dangers await.

Spike still hopes to become a protector’s apprentice and secure a future with the woman he loves. Winning the trials requires trusting a corrupt system and enduring an officer’s hostility, while threats emerge from people he never expected to fear.

A terrorist attack threatens war between a surveillance city and the independent district protected by hackers. Marcie, the district leader's hidden, enhanced daughter, crosses between both worlds to uncover the perpetrators, risking betrayal of everyone she loves.

Andy stops after seeing a little girl wandering through the woods at night, an encounter that leaves him dead. Told as a ghost's story, his experience explores the uncertainty surrounding a seemingly simple decision to help a stranger.

Seeking refuge with a new acquaintance, William and his friends cross ruins contested by two hostile cities. Soldiers, cannibalistic scavengers and the diseased make the journey perilous, while uncertainty about their guide leaves the promised sanctuary far from assured.

To protect a friend, Marcie agrees to perform five bounties for a Prime City crime boss. Each assignment reveals further exploitation and conspiracy, trapping her between her conscience and the lethal consequences of breaking the deal.

Reuben achieves his childhood ambition of becoming a soldier, only to find war beyond the city walls unlike his heroic fantasies. Fighting hostile forces and the infected makes him question both his willingness to die and his freedom to choose.

After escaping an abusive asylum, Matilda and Olga must return for a friend and other prisoners left inside. An infected wound complicates the rescue, while a power failure removes the mechanism that once kept diseased attackers contained.

Learning that Matilda and Olga have been taken for a forced wedding, their companions race to reach them within three days. Trapped routes, violent escorts and diseased attackers threaten both groups before they can confront the man awaiting his captives.

Gracie offers William and his friends a temporary refuge in an underground community concealed from hostile neighbors. They intend only to recover before reaching the distant wall, but unwelcome residents and hidden tensions threaten to prevent their departure.

Confined in a lead-lined shelter after nuclear war, Dragon knows the world through networked competitive games. The monthly prize offers a rare ambition beyond survival, until an unusual competition begins to change the life he has always accepted.

Battered by their journey, William’s group debates turning back or continuing south through a vast prison. Hostile guards, violent inmates and trapped passageways stand between them and the answers they have risked so much to find.

Marcie travels home with a promised lung transplant, while her companion Drake searches for daughters sold into slavery. Crossing hostile wastelands is only the first obstacle to reunions complicated by changed feelings, buried memories, and human trafficking.

After surviving infected attackers and hostile communities, William and his friends reach the immense wall dividing their country. Their plan to cross promises answers and perhaps sanctuary, but overcoming the barrier may demand more losses than they can bear.

In a brutal urban district, Bart's exhausting job cannot feed his wife and daughter through the week. Desperation drives him toward dangerous opportunities involving trials, lenders, and gangs, hoping for an escape from the poverty consuming his family.

Once a skilled pilot, hacker, and covert operative, Sparks now drifts through remote outposts haunted by her past. A stranger offers a way back into action, forcing her to choose between continued hiding and a mission that may be a trap.

William and his friends finally reach the apparently uninfected south after fighting through a vast prison. Their hope of beginning again conceals an immediate threat: one diseased creature has followed them through the gates they left behind.

Joni leads an army against a rising cult while concealing a truth that could destroy her support. Elsewhere, scattered friends seek safety among enemies and attempt another rescue, facing a world where each desperate decision risks adding to the dead.

A new community offers Rayne the possibility of a fresh start and an unexpected alliance. Ignoring the warning signs initially seems worth the risk, until bodies begin appearing and threaten the security she hoped to find there.

Two groups secure temporary shelter in separate tower blocks without controlling the dangers around them. As Olga confronts betrayal and Joni tries to help guards escape, infected attackers and hostile residents threaten to overturn their fragile safety.

With Greeta facing execution, Sparks returns to a dangerous planet where a massive bounty makes discovery deadly. Leaving Reyes and Faz Went behind to face their own formidable enemy, she attempts a rescue with little margin for error.

Determined to honor a promise, Sparks boards a sinister prison ship to rescue Shalk and return him home. Elsewhere, Reyes and Faz Went struggle with captivity while their larger effort to free a planet hangs in the balance.

Sparks and Reyes discover that their lucrative assignments have served a corrupt organization. They must decide whether to take their payment and leave or risk their lives trying to undo the harm they helped cause.

As war approaches Flanterian, Sparks and her companions struggle to penetrate a blockade and rejoin their allies. On the surface, Reyes must prepare an unlikely army while intelligence gathering reveals the overwhelming strength of the approaching enemy.

A failed surprise attack traps William’s dwindling group on a burning tower while Matilda struggles with grief. Elsewhere, Eleanor seeks acceptance among vampires by fighting the regime that raised her, with both sides risking everything against the Shining City.

As an army approaches the Shining City, Eleanor infiltrates the regime she intends to destroy. Her allies distrust her resemblance to their enemies, but reaching the ruler from within may be their only chance to break the fortress’s power.

With an attack hours away, Eleanor must free prisoners and undermine the Shining City’s defenses without exposing her position. Outside, her allies prepare to strike unaware that friends remain within, making a breakdown in timing potentially disastrous.

As fire spreads through the Shining City, Eleanor faces an infected creature suspended above her prison and Matthew remains trapped elsewhere. Their friends struggle to reach them while an attacking army unknowingly threatens allies still caught behind enemy walls.

After countering the regime’s defensive plans, Eleanor turns toward rescuing Matthew from confinement. Scattered allies fight their way back together while William’s forces enter the city, hoping to reach its ruler and secure peace before another reversal destroys them.

Crossing the wall leaves William’s group separated in a hostile new world, with return impossible until they reunite. Searching for one another also brings them closer to answers about the plague, provided they can first learn the rules that govern survival.