Nathan Lowell Books in Order

Six months into life aboard the Lois McKendrick, Ishmael moves from the galley to Environmental just as Sarah Krugg joins the crew. New duties, shifting relationships, and old fears collide as both spacers learn to trust the ship and themselves while trying to balance love, loss, and survival in the Deep Dark.

After his mother dies in a flitter crash on the company world of Neris, Ishmael Wang has ninety days to find work or be forced off planet. Signing on as a mess deck attendant aboard the Lois McKendrick, he discovers that life in space is built on coffee, hard work, and learning fast.

After twenty winters on the road gathering herb lore, Tanyth Fairport stops in the struggling village of Ravenwood for what should be one last winter. Bandits, strange visions, and buried local fears draw her in, and she must decide how far to lean into gifts she barely understands to protect her new friends.

Captain Bjorn Gunderson's routine cargo run turns deadly when a tiny rock punches through his ship far beyond the busy trade lanes. With air and supplies dwindling, the crew must improvise a desperate plan to find help in the Deep Dark, knowing one reckless gamble may be their only chance to survive.

A routine in-system transit goes badly wrong, leaving the Lois McKendrick and her crew scrambling to diagnose what failed and how to fix it before the ship dies. As damage control stretches everyone to their limits, Ishmael finally understands what it truly means to be a spacer when things stop going to plan.

Agent Heathcliff Durham is dispatched across Africa to track down a mysterious amulet said to bring disaster to anyone who carries it. Battling brutal heat, thin supplies, and an unsettling traveling companion, he begins to suspect that finding the artifact may be easier than surviving it.

A reshuffle of cabins puts Ishmael Wang in command of the fleet's worst ship, the SC Agamemnon. Surrounded by more officers than crew and burdened with bad habits ingrained over years, he has to rebuild trust, fix the culture, and turn a profit without losing himself or his people along the way.

Fresh out of the academy, Ishmael Wang takes his first posting as a junior officer aboard the William Tinker and discovers a ship in crisis. Abusive senior officers and a demoralized crew make every watch a test, and he must decide how hard to push for change when the system itself resists.

When Diurnia Salvage and Transport changes hands, Captain Ishmael Wang suddenly finds his company deep in debt and his future uncertain. To protect his crew and the life he has built, he dives into a world of sharp deals and quiet sabotage, discovering just how high the cost of true ownership can be.

Tanyth Fairport crosses the ocean to continue her long quest for the hermit of Lammas Wood, only to face storms, ice, and enemies she has never met. As her power grows in unsettling ways, she must confront the possibility that the greatest danger lies inside her own mind.

On St. Cloud's stormy South Coast, Otto Krugg is heir to the shaman's gift and wants nothing to do with it. When new company quotas threaten his village and his family, he discovers that walking away from his heritage is impossible if he hopes to keep his people safe.

Making her way through the Lammas Wood, Tanyth finally meets the last of the Old Witch Women and discovers she is nothing like the stories. When ruthless mainland businessmen move to seize the forest and its people, Tanyth has to set aside her fears and trust her hard won gifts to stand in their way.

Ishmael Wang returns to Port Newmar still grieving the past, only to be offered command of the haunted freighter Chernyakova. With old shipmate Phillip Carstairs at his side, he heads back into the Deep Dark on a personal mission to track down the man behind a devastating loss.

Academy star Natalya Regyri should have had her pick of engineering posts, until a dead classmate and a frame-up wreck her career. On the run in a damaged ship with Zoya at her side, she takes a smuggling job that might buy back her future, if it does not deliver her straight to the authorities.

Offered a too-good-to-be-true contract by a powerful organization in the Western Annex, Natalya and Zoya jump at the chance to upgrade their ship and their prospects. The dream job quickly sours when they discover hidden traps and an enemy who expects them not to return from their so called suicide run.

With the Chernyakova finally out of the yard, Captain Ishmael Wang takes his crew into the lawless Toe-Holds, where Confederation authority does not reach. A dead ship with a live crew, secretive ports, and dangerous cargoes force him to confront how far people will go to keep their secrets.

Ishmael steers the Chernyakova back into Toe-Hold space in search of profit and answers, only to be drawn into the orbit of Dark Knight Station. A tempting contract toward a pirate stronghold promises big returns, but the mix of coffee, credits, and quiet extortion may carry a price none of them expect.

In their final outing, Natalya and Zoya head back into Toe-Hold space on a mission of mercy to a silent Usoko Mining smelter. There they find a growing cloud of debris, a crippled ship, and stranded barges, forcing them to choose between easy profit and the much harder work of saving lives.

Years after Otto Krugg accepts his role as shaman, his daughter shows signs of the same gift in a culture that has never allowed women to carry it. As Otto fights a century-old rule and Jimmy Pirano is ordered to enforce it, both men are forced to question who made the law and why it still stands.

When Jimmy Pirano is called back to the home office, his sister Angela is left to untangle the mess he leaves behind on the South Coast. At the same time, Otto Krugg has to rebuild a life after deep personal losses and decide whether happiness can be found at the far end of the shoreline.

Out of work and nearly out of options, Roger Mulligan accepts a generous offer to serve as butler to eccentric Joseph Perry Shackleford for a year. Keeping the old man alive and solvent sounds simple, until Roger starts seeing things that suggest his new employer really might be a wizard after all.

On a failing outpost in the Deep Dark, station owner Edgar Vagrant, miner Verkol Kondur, and brothers Malachai and Zachary struggle to keep Dark Knight Station alive. As politics, bad management, and ominous graffiti close in, each man has to decide what kind of future, if any, the station will have.

In a kingdom whose power rests on salt, Prince Tanan is sent upriver to live among the laborers who mine it just as output begins to falter. On the grasslands, First Rider Sukhetai leads his people’s trade caravan for the first time, and both young men are forced to choose between justice and honor.

Far from any port, the Marva Collins runs into serious trouble that leaves Ishmael and his mixed crew of professionals and cadets with hard choices and thin options. With home a long way off and information scarce, every course change feels like a roll of the dice in the Deep Dark.

When Manchester Yards donates a new training ship to the Merchant Officer Academy at Port Newmar, Alys Giggone turns to Ishmael Wang and the crew of the Chernyakova. Taking a load of cadets into the Deep Dark, they must juggle real cargo, real risks, and the messy business of teaching on a live ship.

The SC Marva Collins heads into Toe-Hold space with a fresh batch of academy cadets and a brand new ship, and Ishmael soon learns just how much trouble green hands can cause. As the students stumble through lessons the hard way, an overconfident liaison discovers that bad teaching can be deadly.