Nathan Van Coops Books in Order
Browse all Nathan Van Coops books in order, with series guides, short summaries, and clear tips on where to start his time travel, mystery, and adventure fiction.
Last updated: June 7, 2026
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Publication Order
17 books
In Times Like These
by Nathan Van Coops
2013
After a lightning strike, Ben Travers and his friends wake up in the past and discover they are not the only time travelers there. To get home alive, Ben has to understand a broken timeline before the bodies pile up.
The Chronothon
by Nathan Van Coops
2015
Ben hopes for a little time with Mym, but gets pushed into a brutal race through history instead. What starts as a wild competition becomes a fight to survive and protect the people he loves.
The Day After Never
by Nathan Van Coops
2016
Back home, Ben wants a normal life, but attacks on time travel labs and messages from a supposedly dead version of himself say otherwise. To stop a dangerous new faction, he has to solve the mystery of his own disappearance.
Faster Than Falling
by Nathan Van Coops
2017
Samra Rose lives safely above the clouds until aerial raiders steal her home with her still inside. Her rescue becomes a dangerous chase through sky pirates, deadly creatures, and a world far bigger than she imagined.
Clockwise & Gone
by Nathan Van Coops
2018
Emily Davis should be celebrating her future, not questioning reality after her fiancé returns from a disaster acting like someone else. A glimpse of what lies ahead pulls her into a tight, unsettling time-bending thriller.
The Warp Clock
by Nathan Van Coops
2018
When a girl from Ben's future arrives with terrible news, he is forced into a desperate hunt for a device that might change fate. Family, fugitives, and impossible choices collide in this high-stakes series entry.
Sword Fight
by Nathan Van Coops
2019
Valerie wants justice, not courtly approval, after murder shatters her place in noble society. To reach the king and fight her way back, she enters a deadly tournament with a sword, a grim mentor, and one legendary car.
Agent of Time
by Nathan Van Coops
2020
Rookie FBI agent Stella York witnesses a murder that does not stay murdered. With contradictory evidence and an impossible timeline, she has to untangle a series of bizarre killings before the case spins out of control.
Time of Death
by Nathan Van Coops
2020
Greyson Travers is a private eye with one big advantage, he can travel through time. A widow's simple case turns deadly fast, drawing him into murders, mob pressure, and a mystery that gets more dangerous with every jump.
War Car
by Nathan Van Coops
2020
Valerie's quest to reach the king takes a hard turn when bandits steal her prized war car. In a frontier full of hunters, rival factions, and buried secrets, she has to choose allies carefully and keep moving.
Electric Midnight
by Nathan Van Coops
2021
Greyson's newest client is already dead, and the only clue is a strange coin nobody can explain. Android money, a girl with secrets, and a city full of traps push him into one of his strangest cases yet.
The Clockwork Game
by Nathan Van Coops
2022
Greyson heads to a remote lodge to recover a priceless artifact, then a body disappears and the job turns into a murder investigation. Trapped with suspicious guests and no easy exits, he has to outthink a killer playing by hidden rules.
Tomorrow Detective
by Nathan Van Coops
2022
When a man from Greyson's past gets out of prison, old wounds and old crimes come rushing back. To protect the people closest to him, he has to dig into decades of buried violence and face what it cost him.
Tropic Angel
by Nathan Van Coops
2023
Luke Angel is happy running his Florida seaplane business until a friend's plane disappears and the clues start pointing toward something ugly. The search drags him into old family trouble and danger that reaches his young niece.
Tropic Descent
by Nathan Van Coops
2024
A routine cargo run turns dark when Luke answers a distress call and ends up with a dead pilot and an unconscious woman. On a wealthy island built on secrets, every answer pulls him closer to a killer.
Tropic Hustle
by Nathan Van Coops
2025
Luke needs help with his antique flying boat, which means dealing with the father he cannot stand. Hidden money, old grudges, and criminals on the hunt turn a family problem into a deadly chase.
Tropic Envy
by Nathan Van Coops
2026
After a heroic moment puts Luke in the spotlight, a shocking death rocks the airport community he calls home. As gossip, grudges, and hidden motives pile up, he has to solve the mystery before his reputation and life both go down.
Where should I start?
If you want big time travel adventure: In Times Like These → The Chronothon → The Day After Never → The Warp Clock
If you like mystery with a sci-fi twist: Time of Death → Electric Midnight → The Clockwork Game → Tomorrow Detective
If you want high-flying suspense: Tropic Angel → Tropic Descent → Tropic Hustle → Tropic Envy
If you want alternate-history action: Sword Fight → War Car
If you want skyship adventure: Faster Than Falling
Author bio
Nathan Van Coops is a Northern California native who built a life around two long-running interests, airplanes and stories. He now lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he works in aviation and writes fiction that mixes time travel, mystery, adventure, and a strong sense of motion.
Flying came first. As a kid, he heard stories from his grandfather, a World War II pilot, and spent time at airshows, which made aviation feel less like an abstract dream and more like a possible future. He began flight lessons in Hanover, Pennsylvania, soloed on his sixteenth birthday, and had his private pilot license by eighteen.
He was headed toward art before aviation won the argument.
Van Coops started college as a fine arts major at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, then decided it made more sense to build a career in aviation and keep art on the side. That practical streak still shows up in his fiction. Even when his books deal with time travel or invented worlds, the tools, machines, and rules usually feel like something somebody has actually had to test, repair, or survive.
Writing grew in the cracks of working life. During short breaks as a mechanic and flight instructor, he would open a document and add a few pages, and later he talked about how a small accountability group finally helped him finish the novel that became In Times Like These. That first book came out in 2013 and introduced the kind of story he clearly enjoys most, ordinary people thrown into extraordinary trouble, with enough logic behind the wild idea to make the danger feel real.
Readers who start with In Times Like These usually stay for the pace, the clear time-travel rules, and the characters trying to keep up with consequences that get bigger by the chapter. The Chronothon takes that same world and turns it into a race through history. In the Greyson Travers books, starting with Time of Death, he bends his love of time travel toward detective fiction, giving his private eye the rare ability to look backward directly and the even rarer problem of paying for it every time.
He likes mixing things that should not obviously fit together.
That is part of the fun of his catalog. Sword Fight and War Car imagine a medieval America full of honor, engines, and roadside duels. Faster Than Falling heads skyward with floating colonies and airship adventure. Tropic Angel brings his aviation life closest to the page, dropping readers into coastal Florida with pilots, hangars, secrets, and trouble that feels grounded in real flying. Across the genres, readers tend to come for the hook and stay for the capable heroes, quick dialogue, danger, and forward pull.
Van Coops has lived in St. Petersburg since the mid-2000s, and that part of Florida shows up often in his work. He still works in aviation as a commercial pilot, certified flight instructor, and FAA Designated Mechanic Examiner. When he is not writing or flying, he has said he likes tinkering with old airplanes, motorcycles, and vintage Volkswagens, and his public bio still makes room for tacos, pickleball, and life with his wife and kids.
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