The Empire's Corps Books in Order

After challenging a powerful official, Captain Edward Stalker and his Marines are exiled to Avalon. Their apparently quiet posting becomes a struggle against bandits, insurgents, and a corrupt government as the surrounding Galactic Empire begins to crumble.

Abandoned on Avalon after the Empire's withdrawal, Colonel Edward Stalker and his Marines face a powerful pirate organization. Defending their isolated world means confronting an enemy with resources and ambitions that may exceed anything the Marines can muster.

Three teenagers win a trip from Earth's oppressive cityblocks to the colony world Meridian. Its possibilities seem promising, but dangers they were never taught to handle soon force them to fight for survival far from home.

The Commonwealth built by Colonel Stalker's Marines faces a ruthless dictator leading a surviving fragment of the Empire. As the new union prepares for war, a small Marine team receives orders to undermine her rule from within.

Sameena escapes persecution on her homeworld by hiding aboard a trading starship and building a new life with its crew. The Galactic Empire's collapse threatens that refuge, forcing her to find ways to preserve trade and stability.

A diplomatic meeting on neutral Lakshmibai turns into a siege when its government targets the visiting off-worlders. Jasmine Yamane must lead an untested army to rescue Edward Stalker and the diplomats before the crisis sparks another interstellar war.

Marine Pathfinder Belinda Lawson becomes bodyguard to the spoiled heir of a failing Galactic Empire. Preparing him to rule proves difficult, and competing political schemes may leave her struggling simply to keep her young charge alive.

The Commonwealth sends an expeditionary force to help Thule confront an insurgency despite political turmoil at home. Outside support for the rebels and Wolfbane's preparations for war trap the troops in a conflict with wider, concealed purposes.

A conference on Terra Nova offers the collapsing Empire a chance to avoid civil war. Imperial Marshal Glen Cheal investigates a plot to derail it, while Marine specialist Belinda Lawson faces a mission that makes even her own mind unreliable.

After a gang attack kills his family, young Edward Stalker escapes Earth’s violent Undercity by joining the Terran Marine Corps. Surviving its punishing training becomes his first challenge as he learns what service demands beyond simply getting away.

Wolfbane’s attacks and a hidden spy strain the Commonwealth’s fragile unity as Colonel Stalker fights to prevent defeat. Meanwhile, imprisoned Marine Jasmine Yamane plans to escape an enemy camp and bring her people home through hostile space.

The isolated colony of Arthur’s Seat receives tens of thousands of refugees as the Empire collapses. Efforts to integrate them collide with factional maneuvering and the newcomers’ struggle to build lives, placing the entire planet at risk of civil war.

With the Commonwealth exhausted and enemy forces approaching Corinthian, Colonel Stalker chooses to make a stand. His Marines must hold the industrial world long enough for new weapons and tactics to matter, despite the destruction a ground battle could bring.

Edward Stalker prepares a final offensive against Wolfbane while rival factions struggle for control of its government. Fleets and infiltrators advance toward a confrontation that could reunite the galaxy or deepen its descent into chaos.

Reporter Clarence Esperanza loses his job after bringing his employers an explosive story. A position at a rival news outlet gives him another chance, drawing him into a struggle over Tarsus's media, government, and freedom.

After Earth's fall, the Terran Marines try to preserve civilization amid competing governments and warlords. Powerful factions are plotting a different future, leaving the marines with a narrow opportunity to stop them before another dark age begins.

The Terran Marines seize Hameau, then discover the corporate world is only part of a much larger enemy. Cut off from fellow marines, they struggle to hold their position while civilians suffer between the opposing forces.

The Terran Marines prepare a strike at the heart of the corporate empire threatening Hameau. With their enemy rebuilding for another offensive, they stake their survival on a gamble meant to end the war.