The Arcadian Conflict Books in Order

The Arcadian Conflict is Mark Teppo's blend of environmental suspense, conspiracy thriller, and dark speculative fiction. It opens with Earth Thirst, a story set on a planet strained by overconsumption, corporate power, and ecological damage that can no longer be brushed aside.

At the center is Silas, an Arcadian who has lived far longer than an ordinary human being should. Arcadians are not standard vampires. They are ancient, powerful beings with a deep connection to the earth, and their survival is tied to soil, renewal, and the health of the world around them. That link gives the series its central pressure: what happens when the people meant to live on a planet push it toward collapse?

Silas is also carrying gaps in his memory.

The story begins with betrayal and exile, then widens into a hunt for the people using violence, money, and advanced weaponry to shape the crisis for their own ends. Along the way, Silas crosses paths with Mere, a journalist whose investigation helps expose the larger pattern behind the immediate danger. Their separate goals begin to overlap as the stakes become harder to contain.

Earth Thirst has the momentum of a spy thriller. There are covert operations, private armies, brutal corporate interests, shifting loyalties, and characters who know more than they first admit. But the ecological threat is not just background scenery. The damaged environment is part of the conflict, and the Arcadians force the book to ask who gets protected when a world starts running out of room, resources, and time.

The setting is a near-future version of the present rather than a distant fantasy realm. That makes its technology, environmental decline, and political pressure feel close enough to be uncomfortable. Teppo mixes action scenes with questions about memory, survival, and the cost of treating the natural world as something disposable.

This is a darker kind of adventure.

Readers should begin with Earth Thirst, the first and currently central Arcadian Conflict novel. It introduces the Arcadians, Silas, and the struggle between people trying to protect the planet and those willing to weaponize its decline. Expect a fast-moving story with noir touches, speculative ideas, and a hero who is not fully certain of the life he has already lived.