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Skyler Ramirez Books in Order

Explore Skyler Ramirez books in order, with short summaries and a guide to the series and standalone titles to help you choose where to start reading.

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Saving the Academy

by Skyler Ramirez

2023

Struggling naval cadet Brad Mendoza discovers a mysterious boat and becomes entangled in a conspiracy against Prometheus’s royal family. With little academic success or discipline to recommend him, he must rely on friends to help protect the academy.

Brad Mendoza and Jessica Lin accept a job protecting frontier farmers from pirates despite having an unarmed ship and almost no resources. Their improvised campaign uncovers further complications, forcing them to depend on ingenuity and each other.

With Brad Mendoza imprisoned and holding a secret that could reshape the galaxy, Jessica Lin assembles an unlikely rescue crew. Their damaged pirate ship may be their only chance to reach him before his captors break him.

The Worst Ship in the Fleet

by Skyler Ramirez

2023

Disgraced after a disastrous civilian casualty incident, naval officer Brad Mendoza accepts command of a failing starship. His new executive officer Jessica Lin brings hidden troubles, forcing him into a struggle to save both her and his unwanted command.

The Worst Spies in the Sector

by Skyler Ramirez

2023

Presumed dead and nearly out of supplies, Brad Mendoza and Jessica Lin accept a lucrative passenger-and-cargo run. Their customers have deliberately chosen them, drawing the former naval officers into a conspiracy that demands skills neither expected to need.

Battle for Poe

by Skyler Ramirez

2024

A routine patrol brings Captain Brad Mendoza and Commander Katherine Henderson to a mining colony under attack by six pirate ships. With only their battlecruiser to oppose the fleet, they must find a way to protect the colony against overwhelming odds.

Bells and Bullets

by Skyler Ramirez

2024

Christmas at the Promethean Naval Academy brings Brad Mendoza into an assassination plot against a future queen. Chance encounters entangle him with hidden enemies, and protecting the royal target soon becomes inseparable from keeping himself alive.

Rogue Agent

by Skyler Ramirez

2024

Assassin Heather Kilgore investigates a dead defector found outside an embassy with her name in his pocket. The case reopens a personal betrayal while hidden loyalties and an escalating interstellar dispute threaten to plunge her nation into war.

Siege of Jalisco

by Skyler Ramirez

2024

An ambush leaves Brad Mendoza commanding five small surviving ships in the blockaded Jalisco system. Unable to call for help, he must confront a superior enemy fleet while rebel troops kill civilians on the planet below.

Suicide Mission

by Skyler Ramirez

2024

Ordered onto an apparently impossible assignment, royal assassin Heather Kilgore discovers that completing her mission could start a war. With another assassin pursuing her, she must decide whether loyalty means obeying her orders or defying them.

Brad’s ex-wife asks him to find a vanished naval task force and the man she left him for. A mysterious note persuades Brad and Jessica to investigate, drawing them between hostile fleets on the brink of war.

Jessica Lin disappears while Brad Mendoza is pressured into capturing a dangerous target. Hunted by criminals, bounty hunters, and their own navy, the separated partners struggle to save each other and uncover the larger conspiracy surrounding them.

Brad and Jessica discover a traitor among their friends while attempting to rescue a duke’s sister. When the assignment entangles them with royalty, revolution, and an old enemy, the person who betrayed them may become indispensable.

Assassin's Flight

by Skyler Ramirez

2025

Hunted by her own agency, Heather Kilgore escapes to the Outer Rim to stop an arms manufacturer fueling interstellar war. A crew of specialists helps her attempt a dangerous infiltration of a corporation protected by its own army.

Awakening

by Skyler Ramirez

2025

Orson’s dream of leaving Earth becomes a desperate escape when a fugitive encounter puts an advanced AI in his head and his sister in custody. Stealing a spaceship brings him new betrayals and an increasingly controlling digital companion.

The Kaelen Extraction

by Skyler Ramirez

2025

When a former crewmate dies mysteriously, Billy Firebrand reunites his once-feared mercenaries for one last mission. Their damaged ship and accumulated troubles leave them poorly prepared for hidden enemies and a threat that could ignite galactic war.

Newly promoted admiral Brad Mendoza escapes his responsibilities by chasing slavers with Jessica and their crew. The apparently straightforward mission becomes a trap, leaving them hunted by a better-equipped enemy determined to destroy them both.

Meeting mercenary Billy Firebrand, the hero Brad Mendoza thought was fictional, brings unexpected trouble. A manipulative princess, blackmail, and a kidnapped president draw Brad and Jessica into another dangerous assignment with little chance of going according to plan.

Yonder in the Stars

by Skyler Ramirez

2025

Seeking revenge for his father’s murder, frontier gunslinger Gav Brigham rescues a stranger whose enemies come from beyond his world. His personal quest becomes a fight against alien forces and technology that could destroy every human settlement.

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The Calypso Enigma

by Skyler Ramirez

2026

Billy Firebrand and his fractious mercenary crew follow a slim lead to Calypso in search of a missing scientist and a dangerous bioweapon. Instead of answers, the world offers further mysteries that threaten to pull the group apart.

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Brad Mendoza receives an advanced carrier and a troublesome fleet for a vital mission behind enemy lines. Sabotage, unreliable personnel, and a powerful opponent’s interference threaten his command, forcing him to improvise another unlikely route to survival.

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The Mauroan Gambit

by Skyler Ramirez

2027

Billy Firebrand’s crew finally locates the elusive Tammie Gleason, only to discover a more dangerous conflict than expected. With a hostile planet threatening their survival, the fractured mercenaries must work together before events endanger the entire galaxy.

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With the war apparently lost, Brad Mendoza and Jessica Lin venture into wild space seeking a way to save their nation. Elsewhere, their allies must persuade an admiral with his own agenda to support a desperate attempt at victory.

Death Patrol

by Skyler Ramirez

Sent on a remote patrol after trouble involving an admiral's dog, Ensign Brad Mendoza discovers a devastated system and an abandoned station broadcasting distress. An unhelpful artificial intelligence and a dangerous robot dog complicate the crew's search for answers.

Serena

by Skyler Ramirez

The battlecruiser Midway races to stop a Martian invasion, carrying Earth's hopes of survival. When its artificial intelligence, Serena, begins behaving strangely, a crew member questions the information controlling their mission and searches for what the ship is hiding.

A Star Nation in Peril books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Rogue Agent"

    Rogue Agent

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2024
  2. Book cover for "Suicide Mission"

    Suicide Mission

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2024
  3. Book cover for "Assassin's Flight"

    Assassin's Flight

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2025

Dumb Luck and Dead Heroes books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Saving the Academy"

    Saving the Academy

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2023
  2. Book cover for "The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe"
  3. Book cover for "The Worst Rescuers in the Republic"
  4. Book cover for "The Worst Ship in the Fleet"

    The Worst Ship in the Fleet

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2023
  5. Book cover for "The Worst Spies in the Sector"

    The Worst Spies in the Sector

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2023
  6. Book cover for "Battle for Poe"

    Battle for Poe

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2024
  7. Book cover for "Bells and Bullets"

    Bells and Bullets

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2024
  8. Book cover for "Siege of Jalisco"

    Siege of Jalisco

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2024
  9. Book cover for "The Worst Detectives in the Federation"
  10. Book cover for "The Worst Fugitives in the Star Nation"
  11. Book cover for "The Worst Traitors in the Confederacy"
  12. Book cover for "The Worst Admiral in the Star Cluster"
  13. Book cover for "The Worst Mercenaries in the Border Systems"
  14. Book cover for "The Worst Carrier in the Resistance"
  15. Book cover for "The Worst Raiders in the Expanse"
  16. Book cover for "Death Patrol"

    Death Patrol

    by Skyler Ramirez

    Publication date unknown

The Galaxy's Worst Mercenaries books in order

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  1. Book cover for "The Kaelen Extraction"

    The Kaelen Extraction

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2025
  2. Book cover for "The Calypso Enigma"

    The Calypso Enigma

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2026
  3. Book cover for "The Mauroan Gambit"

    The Mauroan Gambit

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2027

Standalone Skyler Ramirez books

  1. Book cover for "Awakening"

    Awakening

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2025
  2. Book cover for "Yonder in the Stars"

    Yonder in the Stars

    by Skyler Ramirez

    2025
  3. Book cover for "Serena"

    Serena

    by Skyler Ramirez

    Publication date unknown

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