Terry Maggert Books in Order

Ring Hardigan and his partners, Waleska and Risa, hunt immortals across South Florida until a brutal attack changes the rules. Monster killing turns into a tangled fight involving stolen heirlooms, ancient powers, and something close to hell.

The Fearless widens its strange, ugly world in another grim supernatural adventure. Ring and his partners keep fighting monsters while trying not to let the darkness swallow them too.

A roadside cross may be bait instead of memorial in this short, nasty prequel to The Fearless. It is a quick ghost story with a dark hook and a bad feeling that lingers.

Ring and his crew are pulled into another dark supernatural case where beauty, danger, and deceit are tightly braided together. The series stays bloody, fast, and more than a little feral.

Old evils do not stay asleep for long in this world, and Ring's team keeps finding the worst of them. The hunt pushes toward something bigger, older, and harder to kill.

Post-apocalyptic Earth has fallen to demons, but dragons rise to fight back. Saavin and her dragon Banshee become part of a desperate defense for humanity's last city.

In this dark horror tale, apocalypse and desire mix in a way meant to unsettle. Maggert gives the zombie idea a nasty, intimate twist that sticks with you.

Good witch Carlie McEwan loves her town, her diner, her Gran, and her huge cat Gus. When a stranger leads her into the Adirondack woods, she finds ghosts, old family magic, and a murderer hiding in the green dark.

Carlie's hard-won balance vanishes again when new deaths and fresh supernatural trouble hit Halfway. To solve the mystery, she has to trust her growing power and the people standing beside her.

Another strange threat drags Carlie into the woods and deeper into the town's older secrets. The series keeps its cozy charm, but the danger keeps getting sharper.

Keiron, a guardian angel from war-torn House Windhook, is thrown toward Earth to save Livvy Foster, a brave girl with a failing heart. Their meeting sparks both a love story and a much larger war in the skies.

Water, weather, and old magic push Halfway into fresh trouble. Carlie has to protect her town when the threat hits closer to home than usual.

Another shared-world anthology, this collection opens new corners of the Four Horsemen universe through stories of soldiers, schemers, hunters, and survivors. It is a good next stop if you want more range than the main novels can give.

Gideon Frost, the last survivor of Ravenwood orphanage, is asked by the dead to deliver justice. With sorceress Samira Alexander beside him, he takes on soul-hungry witches determined to silence the past.

This holiday entry keeps the waffles, wit, and witchcraft, then adds seasonal chaos to the mix. It is lighter on the surface, but trouble still finds Carlie fast.

Livvy has found a place in Windhook, but peace does not last among the sky houses. Civil war, old divine power, and soul-deep danger force her to fight for both worlds.

A short festive return to Halfway, with familiar faces and magical holiday energy. It works best as a cheerful bonus once you already know Carlie's town.

Dash begins turning raw survival into organized resistance. To fight a cruel old power, he has to become more than a pilot and start acting like a leader.

Dash survives the first shock of destiny only to learn the war is far larger than he guessed. New allies, bigger enemies, and the weight of the Archetype keep him moving.

Broke and desperate, Dash Sawyer finds the Archetype, an ancient mech hidden in an icy comet. Becoming its pilot turns him into humanity's best hope against an enemy that once lived to wipe humanity out.

The scale widens as Dash and his growing force confront deeper mysteries from the old war. Big battles and ancient secrets push the series into full space opera territory.

The campaign carries Dash into stranger and more dangerous territory as the scale keeps widening. It is a lively, fast-moving entry with constant pressure and expanding stakes.

The war burns hotter as Thorn's division is pushed into harsher combat and bigger revelations. Every victory comes with a wider cost.

The war opens onto a broader political stage as old powers and new ambitions collide. Dash has to start thinking like a leader, not only a pilot.

Dash reaches for bigger discoveries and bigger risks as he chases a path through chaos. What lies ahead could change the war, or finish it.

Thorn starts turning raw talent into organized resistance against the Nyctus. His strange gifts make him valuable, but they also make him a target.

Hope and duty start colliding as Dash tries to hold onto his vision without losing sight of the cost. The series keeps growing while the choices get harder.

A darker turn in the conflict brings pressure from every side. Dash and his team have to meet fear head-on before it swallows the momentum they have built.

Humanity is losing a brutal war to the Nyctus when abandoned boy Thorn Stellers discovers he is a mage unlike any other. With Kira Wixcombe and a renegade division beside him, he fights back with magic in deep space.

A crucial threshold becomes the center of the next major fight. If Dash cannot hold it, the balance of power across the stars shifts in a hurry.

Magic and space opera meet at full volume as Thorn chases answers into more dangerous territory. The world gets bigger just as the pressure on its heroes tightens.

Distance, culture, and competing loyalties all push against Dash's growing coalition. Keeping friends united becomes as hard as beating the enemy in open combat.

Van digs into the darker corners of Peacemaker business and learns his inheritance came with enemies attached. Old secrets and ruthless powers start closing in around the Fafnir.

Van Tudor returns to Iowa and discovers his grandfather left him more than a farm, he left him a starship and a calling. With combat AI Perry beside him, Van heads into a lawless galaxy as a brand-new Peacemaker.

The final Starcaster book drives toward decisive confrontation, hard sacrifice, and the question of whether humanity can survive at all. Thorn's long fight finally reaches its reckoning.

Buried history comes roaring back as Dash confronts truths that reshape the war around him. Understanding where the conflict began may be the key to ending it.

New reaches of space bring fresh danger and even harder choices for Dash and his allies. The farther they push, the more the war asks from them.

The war grows harsher and more chaotic as Dash is forced through another punishing campaign. Every advance costs something, and the galaxy is not getting any kinder.

The long struggle narrows toward power, leadership, and the future that will remain when the fighting stops. Dash faces the kind of decision that can define an entire era.

Nolan Hayes crashes on Janusia, a world divided by a deadly river, old kingdoms, and mysteries left by starfaring builders. To survive, he must untangle war, politics, and a truth buried for four thousand years.

Van's first real work as a Peacemaker pulls him toward harder criminals and bigger questions. Bounty hunting becomes a crash course in deep-space law, danger, and responsibility.

The Nyctus threat grows overwhelming, and Thorn must answer it with everything he has learned. The action stays fierce, but the emotional stakes remain close and personal.

This short story collection leans into sex, horror, and discomfort with six dark pieces that are not trying to play nice. It is Maggert in a nastier, weirder mode than his series work.

The Fafnir heads into darker territory where isolation and hidden threats work against the whole crew. Van has to hold the line when the void itself starts feeling hostile.

A fast-moving new crisis throws Van and the Fafnir into trouble where timing matters as much as firepower. Shifting alliances and sharp space action keep the pressure on from the start.

Van pushes farther into unknown space and into trouble that will not stay neatly contained. The farther he travels, the more his choices start affecting whole systems, not just one crew.

The past refuses to stay buried as imperial shadows resurface across known space. Van must deal with old power structures that still know how to hurt people in the present.

Open conflict forces Van and his allies into harsher fighting than ever before. The action is big, but the real test is whether the crew can survive what war keeps taking from them.

Power struggles widen as Van faces enemies who think the stars should belong to the ruthless. Justice gets harder to defend when every small victory invites a larger war.

Van's fight grows beyond one ship and one crew as he runs into threats tied to the wider history of human expansion. Legacy, duty, and survival start colliding in bigger ways than ever.

This prequel novella steps away from the main line to show earlier lives in the Backyard Starship universe. It adds useful backstory and gives key characters more shape before the bigger saga rolls on.

Old loyalties fray as Van faces betrayals and painful choices that cut close to home. It is a turning-point entry about what can still hold together under extreme pressure.

Loss hangs heavily over the Fafnir as the campaign grows more costly. Even so, Van keeps pushing toward justice in a galaxy that rarely rewards it.

Signs of a larger danger ripple through known space before the full blow lands. Van has to act early, with limited answers and no easy options.

Leadership becomes its own burden as Van and his allies carry more power than ever before. Command decisions, sacrifice, and responsibility sit at the center of this one.

Van goes up against people who prefer power over justice and control over freedom. The conflict sharpens into a fight over who gets to shape the future of the stars.

Young American soldier Mark Tudor saves an alien warrior and leaves Earth behind for the stars. With Perry as his AI partner, he learns what it means to become a Peacemaker in a galaxy that hunts them.

War and pressure grind down allies and enemies alike in a story about endurance under strain. Van has to keep his people moving when fear and fatigue start doing the enemy's work.

Trouble grows stranger and more dangerous as Van's Peacemaker life keeps opening new corners of the galaxy. The threat tests both the crew's courage and the reach of the law.

With tensions rising, Van is forced to defend a boundary that enemies are eager to cross. It is a tense entry about escalation, resolve, and choosing where to stand.

Mark launches the seemingly impossible mission that could break Gyl-Mareth's hold for good. It is a finale about legacy, sacrifice, and the cost of dragging civilized space back from the brink.

Lawson averts one alien threat only to face a divided humanity, with Darius Spann claiming empire and superiority. Both sides race for allies and lost technology before the stalemate breaks.

Mark's early life among the stars grows more dangerous as hidden enemies and older powers begin to surface. Every mission teaches him that Peacemaker work is never just about one case.

Mark starts prying at corruption that looks solid until it cracks. The deeper he digs, the more he risks everyone he cares about.

A fresh crisis turns explosive and forces the Fafnir into another high-stakes rush. Survival, truth, and timing all end up on the clock.

Chance, planning, and old consequences collide as the war shifts again. Van learns that even a strong plan can still hinge on who reaches first.

Van aims for a decisive blow against enemies who keep surviving the last defeat. The plan is bold, and bold plans tend to pull brutal counterattacks behind them.

Centuries after Dash Sawyer, Lawson Sawyer finds the Archetype and becomes the focus of a power struggle inside the Cygnus Realm. Ancient mechs return just as the Superba try to seize complete control.

This prequel volume fills in the backstories of fan-favorite crew members, especially Icky and Funboy. It works best as bonus context once you already know the main cast.

A direct hit, political or otherwise, throws Van into the middle of another major confrontation. The pace stays high while the crew tries to absorb the fallout.

The fight against corruption moves into darker territory as enemies hide behind institutions and secrecy. Mark has to decide how far a Peacemaker should go to set things right.

Competing expeditions head into the spinward dark in search of powerful civilizations and answers about the Unseen. Lawson and Spann are chasing the same advantage, and only one side can bring it home.

External war meets internal danger when hidden threats get inside the circle. Trust becomes just as important as weapons.

After painful losses, Mark has to balance grief, loyalty, and politics while the galaxy tilts toward wider conflict. He wants justice, but getting it may mean a real war.

The Fist of Orion prepares for another round with the Stillness as new young leaders rise from the Shrikes. Van has to balance offense, science, and family in a war that keeps changing shape.

Thrown into a collapsing galaxy, Alexander gathers unlikely allies and begins imagining a force that protects the vulnerable. Idealism meets real danger as empire gives way to chaos.

Earth's politics turn ugly just as deep-space dangers intensify. Van fights on two fronts, one close to home and one tied to old mysteries and older enemies.

Spann returns stronger than ever and turns ambition into outright tyranny. Lawson must get Task Force Cygnus home and find a way to stop an empire, and the alien power behind it.

Van's long fight against Calamity and its kind reaches a massive breaking point. Old allies gather for a final, costly stand over the future of civilized space.

The Stillness reveal they never truly went away, and the next generation has to prove itself fast. Van and Abel Tudor both have to lead when old enemies come back organized and ready.

This short standalone looks back to Conover, one of Dash Sawyer's old comrades, as peace starts rotting from the inside. It sets up Messenger Corps by showing how dangerous weapons were hidden from future tyrants.

Cullen Bright has conquered the Enhanced Pentathlon, but fame feels empty when alien war arrives. He joins the Unity Marines and learns that talent means very little unless it serves a team.

A prisoner transfer becomes a comic murder mystery when two Backyard Starship fan favorites stop at the galaxy's biggest buffet. It is a lighter caper that lets their odd friendship do the heavy lifting.

The new peacekeepers grow into a true roaming force, but duty on the frontier is messy work. Alexander and his allies are tested by distance, politics, and constant danger.

Van takes the fight into finance and politics as well as open combat. To beat the Stillness, the Fist has to challenge the systems of money and power feeding the war.

Civilization stumbles into full breakdown when communications and logistics collapse across the galaxy. Alexander must choose between serving a broken system and fighting for a different future.

Rejected scientist Alexander Hawke joins an Antarctic expedition and falls into a path to the stars. What he finds is a ruined empire, an alien civil war, and the chance to help invent a new kind of peacekeeping order.

Building something better proves harder than tearing something down. Alexander has to decide what justice looks like when real power starts organizing around him.

A younger generation steps forward when missing ships lead toward the Deeps. Van's children and new Peacemakers get their chance, but the mystery is anything but safe.

A discovery from the distant past throws fresh light on the war around Van and the Fist of Orion. Ancient history may hold the leverage needed for the next phase of the fight.

This short prequel returns to side characters who help make the series so fun. It deepens the cast by showing how Icky and Funboy became exactly who they are.

A brutal new fight erupts, and even timely help comes with fresh complications. Van and the Fist are forced to rethink the balance of power while the war changes around them.

Cullen starts turning athletes into Marines as humanity loses ground in a brutal war of extermination. A desperate mission against the Hardshell homeworld could change everything, or feed more people to the grinder.

The war escalates again as Cullen and his Marines face a new enemy move that promises even bloodier fighting. Victory will depend on discipline, adaptation, and refusing to break.

The frontier grows darker as Alexander faces harder choices about order, power, and survival. The mission stays the same, but the shadows around it get longer.

After crushing defeat, Van abandons restraint and leads the Fist into open retaliatory war. He tried peace first, now he plans to break the systems that fed the conflict.

The campaign to reclaim the idea of law grows sharper and more public. Alexander steps into a role that demands both moral courage and military resolve.

With humanity still under pressure, Cullen heads into another high-risk campaign where the battlefield itself may hide the next disaster. The series keeps its focus on teamwork, grit, and survival under fire.

Secrets from the wider galaxy threaten to reshape the conflict again. Alexander has to solve a dangerous mystery while holding his people and his mission together.

Reeling from loss, Van faces a clash with former allies as the GKU moves on contested space. His long-laid plans begin paying off in a war where secrecy matters as much as firepower.