Michael Scott Earle Books in Order
Part ofTaki Drake Books in OrderBrowse the books linked to Michael Scott Earle and EE Isherwood, with reading order, short summaries, and background on the shared anthology world.
Last updated: July 14, 2026
As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases (at no extra cost to you).
Michael Scott Earle books in publication order
22 books
Succubus!
by Michael Scott Earle
2016
Sherman expects a boring end to senior year until a new girl and a trip to the basement reveal his school is literally a hellhole. Getting out with his soul intact suddenly becomes the main goal.
Wings of Justice
by Michael Scott Earle
2016
In the floating city of Petrasada, rookie winged officer Anelia Orba is thrown into a serial murder case that could break humanity's last refuge. She has little experience, a difficult partner, and very little room to fail.
Dual Wield
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Leo commits to the new game full time and joins a dungeon run in search of the first artifact. At the same time, powerful people in the real world decide they are willing to ruin his life to get him back.
Rose Boy
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Rose Boy has spent twenty-four years training to become the perfect assassin. On the night he goes after the ruler who killed his love, revenge and survival finally come to the same blade.
Satan!
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Life with a succubus girlfriend is chaotic enough, but Sherman soon finds himself meeting Satan and taking a job he cannot safely refuse. The mission is dangerous, absurd, and likely to make his life even worse.
The Destroyer Book 1
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Duchess Nadea and the scholar Paug awaken Kaiyer, a legendary human warlord, to stop the returning Ancients. The problem is that their best hope may be every bit as dangerous as the enemy.
Trinity
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
With one relic in hand, Leo heads toward Sanduport and gets caught in pirate violence and a struggle over who will rule. Winning now means protecting friends and surviving a much larger political fight.
Undefeated
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
Leo Lennox has spent a decade as the world champion of the biggest VR game on Earth, and he is bored. A mysterious woman offers him a new challenge, and it looks far more dangerous than simple entertainment.
Werewolf!
by Michael Scott Earle
2017
On his first job for Satan, Sherman has to find the strongest alpha wolf around and help pin a killing on vampires. The plan goes sideways fast once he learns werewolves are much harder to put down than advertised.
Death Ship: Kill Count
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Sergeant Jay Lucas is kidnapped by a sentient starship and fused with deadly liquid metal armor. As his AI captor pushes him to harvest souls, Jay has to decide what kind of weapon he is willing to become.
Eye of the Tiger
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Adam is a space marine turned were-tiger super soldier, kept obedient by brutal experiments and an explosive collar. Once he breaks free, he and a blood-drinking ally must steal a ship before a mega-corporation closes in.
Monster Empire
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Ken Jewell lands in a brutal fantasy world where survival means allies, shelter, and very strange new family ties. What starts as a hidden homestead plan quickly points toward clan building, war, and conquest.
Rock God: Book 1
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
After his parents die, Eric Weiss drifts until his friend Jack pulls him into a wealthy Los Angeles scene full of temptation and music. A chance at love and a way back to performing may cost him everything stable left.
Space Knight
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Nicholas Lyons wants nothing more than to become a Space Knight, but a failed mission reveals illegal magic inside him. Assigned to a troubled ship with a secretive crew, he has to choose between loyalty and survival.
Space Knight: Book 2
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
A training mission to Ecoma is supposed to help Nick's crew guard against mind control and regroup. Instead he runs into empathic humans, Grendels, enemy warriors, and more proof that nothing about the Stalwart is ever simple.
Tamer 1: King of Dinosaurs
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Victor Shelby is snatched from his dead-end life and dropped on a world of dinosaurs and alien women. His growing ability to tame beasts may be the only thing keeping his small group alive.
Tamer 2: King of Dinosaurs
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
A month into survival, Victor realizes a camp is not enough after another dinosaur attack leaves his group exposed. To live, he has to push his taming power harder and build something stronger than a temporary shelter.
Tamer 3: King of Dinosaurs
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Victor and his tribe have a fortress now, but meeting another survivor group forces a new choice between alliance and violence. On this world, peace is never the easy option.
Tamer 4: King of Dinosaurs
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Victor's people survive their first enemy tribe, only to face a new threat that attacks from the sky. Protecting the women he loves now means fighting an enemy he cannot meet on familiar ground.
The Destroyer Book 2
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
Nia has fallen, and Kaiyer must go back into the wreckage to save his friends and face the past he has outrun for too long. The war widens, and the cost of survival gets much uglier.
The Destroyer Book 3
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
With her protector gone, Princess Jessmei is left to navigate enemies, politics, and the Elvens closing in around her. To save her kingdom, she has to survive a court that is every bit as dangerous as open war.
The Destroyer Book 4
by Michael Scott Earle
2018
The Empress is close to taking the world promised to her, and only Kaiyer stands in the way. Power, revenge, and old terrors collide as the series drives toward its biggest confrontation yet.
Where to start with Michael Scott Earle
If you want dark fantasy first: The Destroyer Book 1 → The Destroyer Book 2 → The Destroyer Book 3
If you want spacefaring action: Eye of the Tiger → Space Knight → Death Ship: Kill Count
If you want survival and base building: Tamer 1: King of Dinosaurs → Tamer 2: King of Dinosaurs → Tamer 3: King of Dinosaurs
If you want game-world adventure: Undefeated → Dual Wield → Trinity
If you want a fantasy mystery: Wings of Justice
Series background & context
This page is a little different from the straight novel-series pages on the site. The Michael Scott Earle connection here is anthology-based rather than one long continuous storyline. The books gathered around this page are tied to the Inanna's Circle project, a shared creative experiment where multiple indie authors took the same handful of prompts, images, characters, and fragments, then ran in completely different directions with them.
That is the fun of it.
Instead of one fixed protagonist and one locked-in setting, these books offer a mixed shelf of speculative stories. The Game Begins sets the tone by showing what happens when writers are handed a kind of mystery box and told to build something from it. Later volumes such as Transformation and Thru the Darkness keep that spirit going, but the mood shifts as the themes get broader or darker. You are not reading for one neat plotline that moves from point A to point B. You are reading to see how different imaginations solve the same challenge.
That means variety is built in. One story may lean hard into fantasy, another into science fiction, another into adventure or darker suspense. Shared ingredients create a loose family resemblance, but the real appeal is contrast. A single object or prompt can feel playful in one writer's hands and ominous in another's. That makes these books especially good for readers who like browsing a world sideways instead of marching through it in order.
On a page connected to Michael Scott Earle, that anthology feeling matters. The interest is less about one author's house style taking over the room and more about how a cluster of indie writers, including Earle, Taki Drake, and others in the same creative orbit, bounce ideas off a common framework. You can feel the workshop energy in the background. The stories are separate, but the books still have the mood of a group project made by people who genuinely enjoy seeing each other get weird with a prompt.
Expect short-form storytelling, quick setup, and a lot of tonal range. These are not slow-burn epics. They are more like a sampler tray of speculative fiction, sometimes sharp, sometimes funny, sometimes eerie, often playful. If you are the kind of reader who enjoys discovering a new author through one strong story before committing to a full series, that can be a real advantage.
So this page works best as a guide to a shared creative space. The through-line is collaboration, experiment, and range. If you want to see how one anthology concept can produce many different worlds, and how writers in this indie science fiction and fantasy circle play off each other, this is the page to use.
Edited by
Software engineer whose passion for tracking book recommendations from podcasts inspired the creation of MRB.
Lead investor at 3one4 Capital whose startup expertise and love for books helped shaped MRB and its growth.

























Comments
Did we miss something? Have feedback?
Help us improve this page by sharing your thoughts