Richard Swan Books in Order

A fragile peace among six interstellar empires begins collapsing after attacks threaten to ignite another war. A diplomat, military commander, agent, and pilot become entangled in competing agendas as the galaxy moves toward a conflict none can fully control.

After the Ascendancy War, the United Nations must unite former enemies against an approaching imperial fleet. Political ambition and internal betrayal threaten the alliance, leaving a desperate mission into the enemy’s home galaxy as a final chance to avert destruction.

Six months into an interstellar war, the United Nations prepares a decisive counteroffensive against the Ascendancy. President Andrea Constance must manage a strained coalition while anticipating a second enemy that could exploit the losses inflicted on both sides.

During humanity's war with the Provar Ascendancy, Captain Adrian Vasco leads a new unit designed to recover abducted officials. Rescuing a diplomat on an occupied planet becomes an urgent test before a United Nations counterattack begins.

A murdered Marine’s warning exposes a possible slavery ring on a remote colonial world during sensitive treaty negotiations. Newly trained officer Elise Kudo must close it quietly, but the isolated jungles of Hadan’s Reach conceal dangers her preparation cannot cover.

Imperial Justice Konrad Vonvalt and his apprentice Helena investigate an aristocrat's murder and uncover a conspiracy reaching into the highest ranks. Defending a troubled empire may require them to violate the laws they have sworn to uphold.

As a tyranid hive fleet approaches Raphaela, conscript Mukta Lim and his fellow soldiers prepare for invasion. A Tempestus Scion arrives carrying intelligence for their commander, offering uncertain hope against an enemy that consumes entire worlds.

Returning to a capital shaken by rebellion and religious fervor, Konrad Vonvalt is ordered to rescue the emperor's kidnapped grandson. His search leads to the southern frontier, where an old enemy commands powers beyond ordinary political intrigue.

Alone among the ruins of an Imperial city, Lamenters Space Marine Ramethos hunts the winged tyranid that destroyed his comrades. Tracking his quarry through enemy swarms becomes a pursuit of vengeance as well as a chance to disrupt the invasion.

With the empire nearing collapse, Vonvalt and Helena seek allies among peoples with good reason to resent it. Facing a zealot empowered by a demonic patron, they must consider dangerous bargains reaching beyond the mortal world.

An industrializing empire faces plague, a faltering foreign war, and monks who report that the afterlife has fallen silent. Ambassador Renata Rainer must seek answers from forbidden practitioners of magic before an ancient prophecy becomes catastrophe.

In the decaying port of Gdansburg, Vonvalt finds a fellow Justice imprisoned for murdering a boy. A dead man's cryptic question leads him to a haunted lighthouse and a past the townspeople may prefer to keep buried.

As a mind-plague spreads and the Empire of the Wolf fractures, Renata Rainer seeks help from an old enemy. Soldiers and arcane specialists investigate the Great Silence while a revolutionary’s terrifying vision threatens to accelerate the collapse.

Winter and plague grip Eisbruck as Vonvalt searches for a child murderer escaped from an asylum. Rumors of demonic witchcraft spread through the town, threatening to turn his pursuit into a crisis far larger than one fugitive.

Widow Katherine Fuller inherits immense wealth within a surveilled, authoritarian interstellar empire. She secretly plans to buy an untouched world and create a democracy, recruiting uncertain allies while a regime unable to tolerate her experiment moves to stop her.