Sean Oswald Books in Order

The Nelson family discovers that stronger enemies have been directing the threats surrounding their exile. Facing a dark mage, fiends, and a mysterious master, every family member must contribute to protect their home and the kingdom of Albia.

After surviving their first battles in Eloria, the Nelson family must rescue Sara from a goblin captor. Their growing influence draws them into human and elven politics while hidden enemies prepare to remove Dave from the struggle for power.

Disillusioned office worker Dave is transported into a fantasy world with his family, turning his gaming escape into a dangerous reality. Protecting them from monsters and an undead army requires cooperation as they search for a place to belong.

Tricked into becoming a hybrid intelligence, Frank awakens as an ogre shaman meant to entertain human players. Strange breaches suggest his supposed game world is more complicated than it appears, leaving him seeking freedom rather than a heroic destiny.

Taken by a trickster god, office worker Tim enters a magical world where his class and appearance change unpredictably. Rival factions want his unusual potential, but surviving requires learning how to combine shifting abilities and understand the nature behind them.

Rather than wait for another attack, the Nelson family takes the fight to its enemies. Raids, dungeon training, and political confrontations test their growing abilities as they work to secure a lasting place in the dangerous world of Eloria.

War threatens Eloria while the Nelson family is scattered across distant dangers. As Emily gives birth and Dave seeks their missing daughter, Mira must confront a dragon and develop her own magic far beyond her parents' protection.

Stranded with his family in a magical world, Jackson develops as an Ironwood Monk while struggling to gain permission to fight. His growing abilities draw him into dungeons and political struggles whose importance to his family's future he barely understands.

Frank questions the reality of the world he entered after death while navigating demands from adventurers and monsters. Resisting absorption into a mysterious system becomes urgent, even as unfinished revenge draws him toward the frozen north.

Tim seeks friends and a place in his new world while struggling to control his changing classes. As he discovers the strength of the enemies facing him, gaining enough power to protect others demands choices whose cost may be unbearable.

Tim has survived a world built on constant change, but now questions whether its rules must dictate his future. Determined to shape his own path, he seeks to turn unpredictable transformations into the power to overcome what stands against him.

Tired of reacting to threats, dragon Nico sets out to free enslaved dragons and establish a homeland for his kind. Building Scale Nation draws him deeper into the history linking dragons and gods while his ambitions grow beyond survival.

Driven from his home by adventurers, young dragon Nico bonds magically with a human woman and disguises himself as a man. Their abilities force them into an imperial academy, where concealing his true nature becomes a challenge to both survival and pride.

Silas becomes one of Earth's secret Forerunners as an approaching apocalypse threatens the planet's future. Competing against representatives of other worlds, he has one year to win humanity a place in the multiverse and prevent Earth from becoming an exploited wasteland.

Nico's encounter with a powerful ancient dragon shows him that help will not come easily. To face new threats, he must develop a second class, embrace further evolution, and navigate alliances as his understanding of the world expands.

Learning how the empire treats other dragons leaves Nico uncertain whom to trust. He must decide whether to abandon the humans around him or learn the power they offer, even when cooperation seems entangled with mutual exploitation.

Mana altered animals spread across Earth while Silas remains forbidden to reveal the system's existence to outsiders. With a deadly Wild Hunt only days away, he must prepare creatively for both a personal trial and humanity's approaching catastrophe.

With less than a month before Earth's transformation, Silas races to prepare humanity and save as many lives as possible. The planet's designation as a contested world adds another danger: rival systems are competing to control its future.

As Earth's deadline approaches, Silas gains power while facing an expanding range of enemies. A new mentor, an additional teammate, and ways to exploit the system bring opportunity, but betrayal complicates the preparations on which humanity's survival depends.

With the dragons freed, Nico must strengthen their kingdom before a final confrontation with monstrous enemies. Holding Ileria together requires more than military force, driving him toward the Horned Crown and the rise of a new dragon emperor.

Silas brings resources and trainers to help Earth prepare, but the Wild Hunt forces him to pursue and evade other Forerunners. Untrustworthy alliances and the possibility of another system challenge his choices as humanity's crisis deepens.

Granted extraordinary power by the System, Dean gains access to magic, quests and secrets beyond ordinary adventurers. He refuses to remain a useful pawn, turning his growing abilities toward a fight against fate and the coming apocalypse.

A dragon wizard wants Dean's body, the System wants his obedience, and the Azagrand Crusade threatens Earth. Facing enemies with overwhelming resources, he must protect his allies and a world unprepared for the forces gathering against it.

Dean enters the Onslaught Jubilee with full administrative access and a secret assignment to disrupt its proceedings. As he begins to grasp the System's true scale, exposure could turn his extraordinary advantage into a deadly liability.

Earth's induction brings competing systems, sects, guilds, and invasion parties seeking its resources. Silas aims to defend more than territory, working to unite its people and build lasting strength while powerful outsiders struggle for control.

Silas prepares to evacuate a threatened world while navigating the demands of powerful families and their potential matches. A vast multiversal auction may offer the tools he needs, but rival interests could turn its opportunities into disaster for Earth.

Silas's growing strength makes both him and his allies targets as accumulated obligations narrow his choices. Facing an enemy bent on destruction, he must forge a different path if he hopes to escape the catastrophic future he has foreseen.

Freed from a dungeon, Tad explores a wider world while an enemy pursues him to exploit his unusual power. Discoveries about his forgotten past and place in the multiverse bring new allies and dangers he cannot yet fully understand.

Earth's promised respite ends as powerful multiversal factions begin moving against it, making Silas a valuable target. His decisions about new allies and enemies will shape humanity's response to an invasion arriving before the planet is ready.

Orphaned Tad can smell magic, a talent adventurers exploit by forcing him into a deadly dungeon. Discovering he can also consume magic and reshape enchantments opens a path to survival and raises unsettling questions about his lost heritage.

Tad wants to open a shop selling magical items, but learning more about his fey ancestry brings fears of imprisonment or death. Dungeons, defiant nobles, and the Lawgiver's attention obstruct the ordinary future he hopes to create.

Hunted after teammates are killed, Dean faces a conspiracy spanning multiple nations while his necromancer ally lies unconscious. Earth's betrayals compound the System's escalating demands, leaving him to confront threats reaching far beyond his own survival.

Dean prepares to confront the Azagrand Crusade, whose plans for Earth promise devastation even if its invasion fails. With reforged abilities and new allies, he must fight across unfamiliar realms and overturn his enemies' expectations of what is possible.

Strange magic transforms solitary veteran Dean into a dungeon core, offering immense potential and immediate danger. To survive the drougar's greed, he must develop his powers, recruit allies and gather the minions needed to defend his new existence.

Dean’s expanding territory and growing collection of dungeons bring new allies and unwelcome attention. As hostile forces move to end his progress permanently, he must achieve another breakthrough to secure his survival and the future of what he controls.

Tad finds friends, happiness, and a new shop, only for his heritage and increasingly powerful enemies to intrude. Forced toward difficult choices, he must decide whether the quiet life he once wanted can still satisfy him.

Seeking answers about his destiny, Tad travels to the Fey Courts and confronts competing claims on his heritage. To survive their challenges and secure his birthright, he must turn his growing mastery of enchantment and creation toward building an army.

The Lawgiver's threat grows as Tad confronts his family, the Fey Courts, and the primordial power awakening within him. With the Infinity Key still waiting, he must question the plans others have made and determine whom he truly needs to save.

Court mage Will continues his search for five ancient magical tomes in a kingdom ruled by hardened clans. With Catherine beside him and the Dyvari working against them, he must bridge two eras to prevent another catastrophe.

Stranded on a distant world ruled by the Order, Silas finds his connection to the system weakened. An alliance with magic eater Tad may provide enchanted weapons and a path home, but opposing the faction could require rewriting their familiar rules.

Having survived his first encounter with the surrounding world, dungeon core Dean needs greater strength to secure his future. He builds alliances, creates traps and develops monsters, turning his growing dungeon into a place capable of resisting its enemies.

Silas answers Ryan's call for help as he begins repaying the allies who once supported him. Growing suspicions about his purpose draw him toward a new balance, challenging the limits and claims of the systems shaping his life.

Awakened two thousand years after his world's destruction, aspiring mage Will joins the countess whose excavation discovered him. Recovering five magical tomes could restore lost wonders, but powerful enemies and a controlling system stand between them and humanity's freedom.

Returning to Earth promises reunion with the family, friends, and communities depending on Silas. But danger follows him home, forcing him to consider whether the greatest threat to the people he protects might lie within himself.

Multiple systems compete for influence over Silas as he draws strength from primordial forces and human psychic power. Reconciling these sources could forge something new, but their conflicting demands threaten to tear apart the person trying to unite them.

Recovering an ancient magical tome reveals that Will cannot use it, forcing him to find people who can. As its connection to the Dyvari's system becomes clearer, he and Catherine must rethink magic itself to pursue humanity's freedom.

The Nelson family's life in Eloria continues in this seventh installment of Life in Exile. The announced adventure returns to the family at the center of the series and their ongoing existence in its magical world.