Rachel Aukes Books in Order

When a plague turns much of humanity into zombies, office worker Cash joins traumatized Army veteran Clutch to escape the city. Their struggle for survival exposes threats from both the undead and the people left behind.

Cash and other survivors shelter in Fox National Park as winter approaches and food runs short. News of migrating zombie hordes forces her to lead volunteers in search of a refuge before the creatures reach their community.

Nearly a year after the zombie outbreak, Cash, Clutch, and their fellow refugees search for a place to rebuild. New enemies force them to consider trusting strangers and a government whose radical plans may bring dangers of their own.

Aging freighter captain Aramis Reyne accepts a profitable delivery to keep his ship and crew afloat. When the job goes wrong, he uncovers a conspiracy intended to start an interstellar war and endanger his home system.

The Collective tightens its grip on fringe colonies, cutting off supplies and potential recruits for the rebellion. Captain Aramis Reyne and two allied captains devise a risky operation to secure resources and build a fighting force.

Protests and uprisings spread as the Fringe Liberation Campaign challenges the Collective's authority. The rebels must unite their divided colonies into a coordinated resistance before the government's military mobilizes to crush the movement and its fighters.

Independence leaves the Alliance of Free Colonies vulnerable to assassination, kidnapping, and murder. After surviving an attack, Aramis Reyne hunts those responsible and must attempt a rescue that could determine whether the fragile alliance survives.

The Collective rejects a ceasefire and attacks the colonies, overwhelming the rebels with superior weapons. Aramis Reyne seeks to reclaim a blighted colony while his allies strike elsewhere, hoping desperate measures can preserve their fight for independence.

This brief guide breaks novel writing into manageable stages, from organizing story ideas to completing drafts. Rachel Aukes presents her Little Ups approach as a way to maintain progress while planning, writing, and revising a manuscript.

Living alone in an Arkansas forest, Sienna Wolfe rescues an alien from a crashed spacecraft. Forced to accompany him, she becomes caught between rival alien species and tries to prevent their war from engulfing Earth.

Rachel Aukes introduces the steps between a completed manuscript and publication, covering preparation, agent queries, and independent publishing. The guide helps writers understand their options and organize the practical work of bringing a novel to readers.

This compact handbook offers an organized approach to revising and polishing a novel. It encourages a constructive editing mindset while helping writers review their story, address weaknesses, and prepare a cleaner manuscript before moving toward publication.

Captain Throttle Reyne's colony ship breaks down during a long voyage, sending her crew in search of help. Discovering an abandoned alien vessel seems fortunate until their own ship, with its sleeping colonists aboard, is stolen.

In a lawless world ruled by competing factions, bounty hunters provide a fragile substitute for police. When hunters themselves become targets, gunfighter Joe Ballast confronts the Sloan brothers and a threat to what little order remains.

After Roderick Sloan targets one of his friends, Joe Ballast infiltrates the corrupt official's organization. Hundreds of armed men stand between him and Sloan, turning a personal mission into a dangerous effort to protect Clearwater.

Marshal Throttle Reyne and her Black Sheep investigate increasing pirate attacks and disappearing peacekeepers. When united pirates capture their organization's headquarters, the crew must attempt a perilous assault to rescue friends and prevent the system falling under criminal control.

Joe Ballast's bounty hunters choose to pursue criminals who prey on refugees, but an ambush drives them into the lawless Wilds. To survive and strike back against the Red Dead gang, they need help from a secret rebel group.

As rebellion threatens to engulf the wastelands, Joe Ballast learns that two friends have been captured by Zenith State. His rescue mission uncovers experiments, dangerous artificial intelligence, and government secrets while the wider conflict moves toward war.

A black hole sends Throttle Reyne's Black Sheep into an unexplored system containing a planet controlled by hostile artificial intelligence. Their hoped-for vacation becomes a military struggle to stop an alien threat before it can spread.

A newly installed artificial intelligence turns a fragile peace into mass destruction across the solar system. Captain Jack Hale and his crew face devastating losses and must find an unconventional way to fight an enemy with overwhelming power.

Humanity's recovery is interrupted when two alien powers bring their war into the solar system. With colonies blockaded and millions threatened, Captain Jack Hale's crew must help unite former enemies and attempt a plan against both technologically superior forces.

Captain Jack Hale's scavengers discover a massacred mining settlement and a young survivor during a salvage job. Refusing to surrender the girl makes them fugitives, while a secret from Hale's past may offer a way to resist their pursuers.

Hunted by the Raptors, Liv, Sam and Jason seek refuge inside an apparently abandoned Dyson sphere. Its defenses, dangerous nanites and a greater approaching enemy force them to repair a superweapon that may cost them their humanity.

Arrested journalist Liv Reyes becomes a war correspondent in humanity’s losing struggle against the Raptors. A perilous transport voyage takes her toward a ruined battlefield and a discovery that could change the war, if she survives long enough.

Space repossession agent Frank Woods needs the money from his latest assignment, collecting an old security mechanoid. The target refuses to surrender, turning a routine job into a battle of traps, technological tricks and increasingly dangerous attempts to outwit it.

Kidnapped by an alien employer, Frank Woods inherits his father’s space repossession job and an eighty-seven-year contract. With a decrepit ship and an arrogant AI, he must retrieve stolen property from owners who would rather see him dead.

Rival repossession agent Krallix steals Frank Woods’s haul and leaves his ship barely functional. Recovering the cargo becomes a struggle for survival, complicated by ruthless competitors and an alien slime that Frank should never have brought aboard.

Wyoming game warden Sam Brodie tracks a predator that should have vanished in the Ice Age. Discovering cloned animals bred for wealthy hunters puts her in danger and exposes a scheme capable of threatening far more than its intended prey.

Liv, Sam and Jason search for a way to stop the Rampage before it reaches Earth. An ancient civilization’s secrets offer a possible weapon, sending the trio into an enemy stronghold where their emerging abilities face their greatest test.