Stars Dark Books in Order
Part ofJoshua James Books in OrderSee the Stars Dark books by Joshua James and Daniel Young in order, with summaries, series background, and where to start this pulpy stranded-crew saga.
Last updated: July 4, 2026
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Stars Dark books in publication order
9 books
Forsaken
by Joshua James
2021
Brynn Jameson and the Yellowjacket crew keep pushing through a war that is only getting worse. Every step toward safety opens another risk, and the enemy behind the invasion is getting harder to ignore.
Fury
by Joshua James
2021
Brynn and his people are battered, angry, and still very much in the war. When the chance comes to hit back, fury may be useful, but only if it does not get them all killed first.
Home
by Joshua James
2021
After everything the crew has endured, the promise of home is still not simple. Old wounds, unfinished fights, and the cost of survival make the final leg of the journey its own battle.
Judgment
by Joshua James
2021
The continuing war forces Brynn Jameson and his crew into another impossible call. Personal grudges and system-wide disaster collide as the Yellowjacket tries to stay one step ahead of ruin.
Last Run
by Joshua James
2021
The crew of the Yellowjacket is still stranded, hunted, and far from finished. To rejoin the wider war, they need repairs, allies, and more luck than a ship like theirs should ever expect.
Lost Sky
by Joshua James
2021
The Yellowjacket's struggle carries on through stranger worlds and harsher odds. As the crew learns more about the enemy behind the invasion, the cost of every answer keeps rising.
Marooned
by Joshua James
2021
When a massive alien invasion hits the Engel Empire, the survey starship Yellowjacket is overwhelmed and left for dead on a hostile world. Captain Brynn Jameson and his crew have to survive before they can fight back.
Revenge
by Joshua James
2021
The war turns deeply personal as old wounds and fresh losses push the Yellowjacket crew toward payback. Survival is still the goal, but revenge is now in the room with them.
Under Siege
by Joshua James
2021
The Yellowjacket crew is back in the fight, but never on equal terms. Besieged from without and strained from within, they have to keep moving before the invasion leaves nothing worth saving.
Stars Dark books in chronological order

Marooned
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 1
Last Run
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 2
Forsaken
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 3
Under Siege
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 4
Judgment
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 5
Lost Sky
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 6
Fury
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 7
Revenge
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 8
Home
by Joshua James
2021Stars Dark, Book 9
Series background & context
Stars Dark is pure pulp-space-opera energy, and it knows it. The series follows the survey starship Yellowjacket and its crew after a sudden alien offensive tears through the Engel Empire. Captain Brynn Jameson and his people are not sitting at the center of grand strategy when the trouble starts. They are one ship caught in a much larger disaster, trying first to survive and then to matter.
The invasion hits hard and early.
That first blow leaves the Yellowjacket crippled, stranded, and badly outmatched. From there the series builds its momentum around repair jobs, desperate escapes, risky alliances, and the ugly realization that the enemy is not just bigger than expected, but connected to Jameson in a personal way. The books run on that mix of public war and private grievance.
The setting is a big part of the fun. The Engel system, with its worlds, stations, and outposts, gives the series room to hop between hostile planets, damaged ships, and weird encounters with alien cultures. This is not hard science fiction trying to slow down and explain every bolt. It is adventurous space fiction that wants to keep the plot moving and throw one dangerous situation after another at its crew.
That old-fashioned approach is part of the charm.
If you like stories where a battered ship keeps stumbling back into the fight because nobody else is in position to do the job, Stars Dark understands the assignment. The tone is lively, dramatic, and happily larger than life. Expect daring plans, personal grudges, strange worlds, and a crew that survives as much on nerve and improvisation as on firepower.
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