Terry Mixon Books in Order

Five centuries after civil war nearly erased humanity, Commander Jared Mertz leads an expedition into the ruins of the Old Empire. What he finds could revive his people, or destroy them for good.

Princess Kelsey Bandar survives torture, but it leaves her changed in terrifying ways. To protect humanity, she must master the weapon her body has become before her enemies return.

Jared Mertz thinks one bold strike can put the glory of the old empire back within reach. Then the plan starts collapsing, and the fight to save humanity turns desperate.

Princess Kelsey Bandar faces a graveyard of fifty thousand dead warships and the AI forces that destroyed them. With only a handful of damaged ships, she must fight a war she should not be able to win.

Harry Rogers thinks he is on a rescue mission in Guatemala, until he uncovers an alien mystery hidden beneath a Mayan pyramid. Whoever solves it first gets a path to the stars.

Adam Hale dives Jupiter's storms to outrun the past, until spy Rachel Price arrives hunting his missing brother. Their search uncovers a conspiracy that could reshape the fractured Solar System.

This anthology opens more corners of the Four Horsemen universe through fourteen stories about mercenaries, hunters, and survivors. Terry Mixon's contribution is the sharp and dangerous Breach of Contract.

Cut off from home, Kelsey Bandar hides from the Rebel Empire while carrying secrets that could save her people. To get them back, she may have to trust prisoners and find help from a hidden civilization.

Sixteen shared-world stories expand the Four Horsemen universe with new guilds, species, and hidden pressures. Terry Mixon's Forbidden Science adds one more dangerous angle to the wider conflict.

Harry Rogers joins the first manned mission to Mars since a secret older one hid its ship on Earth. The relics waiting there could hand the galaxy to whoever reaches them first.

Brad Mantruso survives the pirate attack that destroys his family and rebuilds himself as mercenary captain Brad Madrid. His hunt for revenge drags him into a wider conflict of pirates, slavers, and spies.

Brad Madrid's mission lines up with his vendetta when the Terror reappears. Backed by allies and a shadowy spy, he chases his enemy across the Solar System toward a final reckoning.

Jared Mertz returns home a hero, but his success makes him a bigger target at court. Crown Prince Ethan wants him dead, and only Jared's allies stand between triumph and assassination.

Kelsey Bandar leads a dangerous strike deep into enemy space to steal the technology her empire needs. Success buys a chance to survive, failure means death and worse.

When the power dies in Portland, writer Tom Morgan has to get people and supplies to the Oregon coast before society collapses completely. The road is full of fear, violence, and impossible choices.

Harry Rogers and his friends have found alien technology, and now everyone wants it, including the U.S. government. With his family loose in a stolen ship, the danger is no longer just local.

While Brad Madrid fights the resurgent Cadre across the Solar System, Kate Falcone vanishes with evidence of treason. Finding her may be secondary to the war, but the search leads somewhere Brad never expected to fight.

A Cadre ambush reveals the pirates now have modern warships they should never possess. Brad Madrid and Kate Falcone follow the trail toward a hidden shipyard and a much bigger conflict.

Kelsey Bandar is trapped between xenophobes and murderous AIs with her strongest ship crippled. Her only chance is a covert theft mission, which would be easier if she were built for subtlety.

This anthology uses the Lyon's Den, a legendary mercenary hangout, as the doorway to eighteen Four Horsemen stories. Terry Mixon appears here with The Heart of a Lion.

Jared Mertz heads deep into the AI-dominated Rebel Empire on a mission built on deception. When unexpected players enter the game, bluffing becomes his only path to survival.

Harry and Jess already have aliens, traitors, and hostile governments on their backs. When war over alien technology starts brewing, they must unite shaky allies or watch humanity fall into slavery.

After the president's death, Brad Madrid is pulled from prison and sent to fight a revolt led by the Phoenix, his last living relative. Revenge, civil war, and Commonwealth politics finally collide in open force.

After disaster shatters Depik society, thirteen stories explore how the survivors preserve memory, culture, and purpose. Terry Mixon is one of the contributors to this Four Horsemen anthology.

Separated by vast distances, Kelsey Bandar and Jared Mertz fight their own battles against the AIs. Unless both of them reach Terra in time, humanity loses everything.

Marooned on ruined Terra without advanced technology, Kelsey and Jared must march on the old Imperial Palace. If the savage AIs or the desperate locals stop them, humanity is doomed.

In the Singularity, a young clone called One Twenty-Four fights to survive a school where failure means death. At the same time, Lieutenant Grace Tolliver launches a brutal raid that could change humanity.

To beat the AIs, Kelsey and Jared need an override buried beneath the shattered Imperial Palace. Getting it means surviving a dead megacity, savage enemies, and warships waiting overhead.

After years of war, Jared and Kelsey are ready to confront the master AI at last. Then luck deserts them, and they have to salvage victory while outnumbered, outgunned, and running out of time.

The AI war is over, but Kelsey Bandar still needs allies to hold the Rebel Empire together against the Clans. Then she ends up trapped in an alien universe while the fight keeps moving without her.

In this short bridge adventure, Jack Romanoff gets a chance to save his Navy career by securing a freighter after a pirate attack. The job turns into a nasty standoff, and the cargo is too dangerous to lose.

Jack Romanoff finally gets to hit back at the Locusts, but only by attacking New Copenhagen and holding it. If he loses that system, billions stay trapped and humanity loses its best weapons.

After rescuing hundreds of civilians, Jack Romanoff and his battered crew end up stranded with the Locusts closing in. To escape, he has to hold together uneasy allies and impossible odds.

With his ancient battleship repaired and the invasion's true cause exposed, Jack Romanoff starts liberating the cluster. Then betrayal from an unexpected quarter threatens to wreck everything from inside.

Victory at New Copenhagen comes at a brutal price when Jack loses his quantum drive. To keep fighting, he must free prisoners, fortify the system, and persuade mysterious aliens to help.

Jack Romanoff has liberated Argent and finally has room to breathe, until the Poseidon Group strikes from the shadows. To survive, he must expose traitors before they leave his people defenseless.

Captain Jack Romanoff is headed for retirement when he gets one last chance, restore an ancient super-warship with a crew of rejects before the Locusts return. If he fails, humanity may not survive the lesson.

Jack Romanoff has the Locusts, the Novarites, and hidden human enemies all moving at once. In a war clouded by uncertainty, victory depends on courage, timing, and surviving the chaos.

With the Locusts beaten, Jack Romanoff finally turns on the Novarites who still hold human worlds. He is done asking nicely, and the campaign becomes a war of liberation by force.

After earning breathing room to repair and resupply, Jack Romanoff prepares to strike back. Then fresh intelligence reveals a far bigger storm coming, and his battered ship has to face a battle of titans.

Jack Romanoff buys breathing room by turning enemies against one another, but the Confederation is still coming apart. One wrong move could cost humanity its last chance to endure.

Only one enemy-held world in the cluster remains, and it has been turned into a fortress. Jack Romanoff must use guile instead of brute force if he wants victory without catastrophic losses.

Jack Romanoff begins the liberation of Vesuvius while the Novarites murder human captives in huge numbers. He wants to spare civilians, but the killing has to stop now.

Jack Romanoff has taken Faust and finally has a base, but that only matters if he uses it fast. To save the Confederation, he must hit the Locusts with every trick and weapon he has left.

Trapped inside the Confederation proper, Jack Romanoff discovers the enemy is stronger than anyone thought. With only a tiny force, he must stop both the Locusts and the human coup behind the war.

After failing to seize the master control codes, Jack Romanoff is forced into one final showdown at Earth. While fleets clash in space, his allies fight the coup on the ground.

Jack Romanoff locates the system guiding the invasion, but the terrain makes a direct assault impossible. Instead, his people have to infiltrate, improvise, and gamble everything on stolen information.

Jared and Kelsey have beaten the master AI, but rebuilding a free empire proves just as dangerous as winning the war. A new force emerges from the shadows as the final gamble begins.

The Authority has been driven back, but Drake and Yukiko still cannot explain the ancient forces surrounding them. The deeper they dig, the less dead Those Who Came Before seem to be.

Stranded on the far side of the galaxy, Drake and Yukiko need alien knowledge to find a way home. That means stealing hoarded relics from dangerous collectors, this time on an alien world.

Artifact thief Drake steals a map to a lost royal mega-freighter and ends up hunted by guards, rivals, and a one-eyed woman with a vendetta. Claiming the ship is only the easy part.

While preparing Atlantis for millions of refugees, Drake and Yukiko uncover an ancient facility beneath the sea. Its purpose, and its power, could change everything if the Authority reaches it first.

Drake and Yukiko uncover ancient megastructures that may finally open a path home for humanity. But with pirates and marauders closing in, every discovery becomes a fight for survival.

At the Jontihem capital, Drake and Yukiko face paper walls, old power, and a hidden faction steering events from the shadows. If they fail to expose the dark regent, humanity becomes a pawn.

With their enemies among the Jontihem reeling, Drake and Yukiko move against Kiros while strange disturbances rise beneath Atlantis. Whatever they woke below the city could endanger millions.

Still trapped far from home, Drake and Yukiko follow clues to a vanished race older than Those Who Came Before. The trail might finally lead home, or into a discovery big enough to kill for.