The Hunter Imperium Universe Books in Order

Detective Burnside hunts a killer moving through human space. The trail is grim, the stakes are personal, and the case refuses to stay small.

Being the hero looks impressive from a distance. Up close, Jonathon finds it mostly means more danger, more duty, and less room to fail.

Jonathon Hunter is eighteen, alive, and suddenly very important to people who scare him. Pirates, prophecy, and survival turn his ordinary life inside out.

When the problem is too large for the authorities, they hire Jon Hunter. He gets another mission that could go wrong in every possible way.

Jonathon is tired of being prey. With hunters closing in from every side, he may have to become far more dangerous than anyone expects.

The Hunter family has reasons not to celebrate. This short holiday story lets Jane and the people around her face memory, loss, and a little hope.

Jonathon's legend is growing faster than his comfort with it. The next crisis tests his judgment, his sanity, and the people standing beside him.

Far from home and deep in trouble, Jonathon is pushed further into the role everybody else seems ready to give him. He is not ready, but the crisis is here anyway.

Some days call for staying in bed. Jon does not get that option when the threat reaches the gates and standing firm becomes the only answer.

The Darkness is no longer a distant threat. Jon has to keep moving when the future of far more than his own life is on the line.

The stakes are brutally simple: if Jon and his allies fail, humanity pays. This is the series driving straight toward its hardest stand.

Jon says he is not in the rescue business, which naturally means he gets dragged into exactly that. The mission is risky and the clock is not kind.

Jonathon finally gets home, or thinks he does. Home proves a lot less peaceful than the word suggests.

Told from Jane's side of things, this companion gathers background, perspective, and extra material around Jon Hunter and the wider series.

The journey to Gaia is long in every sense. Travel, danger, and the promise of a different future reshape the next phase of the saga.

Hunter's Run has moved to the Gaia galaxy, but a new home brings fresh politics and danger. Building a future proves as hard as winning one.

Everyone wants something, and too many people want the same thing. Snark's hunt for the Destiny Stone turns into a race full of conflicting motives.

Hunter's Run is growing into a kingdom under pressure. Pride, politics, and the Owl threat make Jane's leadership anything but ceremonial.

The Owl war may be over, but Snark is nowhere near a quiet life. A new quest sends him across a galaxy still learning what humans and AIs can do.

Jon Hunter is back, whether he likes it or not. This book opens a new phase where old threads start colliding in earnest.

Technology and magic finally have to work together if anyone wants to survive. Jon is pushed to the edge of a very dangerous crossroads.

Thorn is back, and the guilty are not going to enjoy it. The second book doubles down on power, punishment, and fast-moving danger.

For Thorn, this kind of life may be the new normal. That only means more enemies are about to learn what a Spacemage can do.

Pirates and slavers have reason to worry when Thorn appears. This pre-Imperium story follows a feared Spacemage with a very direct sense of justice.

Christopher Ecclestone has lived in darkness a long time. Now he is thrown straight into the breach with no safe way back.

What starts as survival becomes something like rulership when the jungle strips everything else away. Power here has a brutal price.

George Murdock has always been the tech mind. Chaos forces him into a much more dangerous kind of service.

A hidden threat is rising in Sector Ten. Leadership falls heavily on Jane as politics and danger tighten together.

Chris Ecclestone's world just got much larger and stranger. Dreamwalking opens the way to a role he never expected to carry.

A grim crossing point awaits, and nobody gets through unchanged. The war grows stranger, deadlier, and far less containable.

The hunt for the Destiny Stone becomes a straight race. Time, rivals, and shifting alliances turn every step into a gamble.

A once top pilot gets told the galaxy is not done with him yet. Returning to the fight is harder than leaving it ever was.

A bigger command means bigger consequences. Bud has to balance strategy, strange new problems, and the cost of staying ahead.

Bud and his team become an official squadron, and new authority brings harder missions, sharper pressure, and more lives in his hands.

The war is already complicated, and Bud's promotion makes it even more so. Strategy, power, and responsibility all scale up at once.

Even an AI deserves a break. Jane's day off, naturally, turns into another strange and memorable piece of Hunter-universe chaos.

There is no clean version of war, and Bud learns that the hard way. Every decision leaves a mark on people and plans alike.

For Bud, the war stops feeling distant and starts hitting close. Command gets heavier when the losses turn personal.

Bud returns to naval service in a war that badly needs a Spacemage. Starting over at the bottom proves anything but simple.

Even the best plans can be wrecked by an unpredictable unit acting on its own. This book turns a military problem into a much larger crisis.

Two leaders, two fleets, and two wars all collide. The scale widens, and so does the cost of getting anything wrong.

After becoming Destiny's Spacemage, Bud is thrown somewhere far stranger than a normal next mission. He is cast loose in time and history.

After years of strain, Jon faces a new object with dangerous implications. Truth is powerful, but it rarely arrives gently.

Bud reaches a level of power no mage has held before. What he does next could change far more than one battle.

Bud's rising rank and raw power are no longer enough when a higher calling pulls him into a wider, more dangerous phase of the war.

They call Bud Merlin, but legend and identity are not quite the same thing. The past opens wider as history starts closing around him.

Bud's growing reputation makes him a target. Powerful enemies test his command, his magic, and the people who depend on him.

A reference companion for the Hunter Imperium universe, with maps, ship material, character notes, art, and extra background.

Arthur comes home to find that home has changed. Old loyalties and new threats make return far more dangerous than departure.

Bonko earned the Imperator's trust long ago. Now that trust puts him at the center of a dangerous new problem.

James Bigglesworth is not young anymore, but command and flying still have claims on him. Age does not make the next mission easier.

Sometimes saving people goes wrong in ways nobody planned for. Bud has to keep moving when the rescue becomes its own crisis.

Haynes was not prepared to become a king. Unfortunately, the job arrives before he has time to refuse it properly.

Gitte is not excited about becoming matriarch, but the role will not wait for her comfort. Power arrives with heavy obligations attached.

Bud is forced to live all the way into the Merlin story. Myth, empire, and sheer stubborn survival collide in a very old age.

Dianne Rockmonster Keaton has come a long way, and being formidable is now part of the problem. Command brings a fresh set of battles.

Out in the contested zone, money, loyalty, and survival rarely point the same way. Fortune favors the prepared, if anyone is.

Thorn has been dead for a thousand years, or should have been. His return changes the balance everywhere around him.

Merlin is now emperor, which solves almost nothing. Unifying a fractured empire may be harder than conquering one.

Testing the limits of a mage is a bad idea. Somebody does it anyway, and the result is predictably explosive.

Liza gets what she wanted, just not in the way she hoped. Command comes attached to pressure, politics, and a harder kind of loyalty.

They came from space, and nobody knows enough about them yet. First contact feels a lot like the opening move of a war.

The dragons are going to war, and the old balance cannot survive that unchanged. What follows is larger than a single campaign.

War continues, but life does too. As politics shift and plans deepen, the future of dragon kind turns on what truly gives it a heart.

Finding the dragons' true home changes what everybody thought they knew. Discovery opens the door to even bigger trouble.

The Dragon Host goes operational, and the new mission carries all the weight of a species trying to reclaim its place.

The Dragon Homeworld was only the beginning. A stronger enemy and a larger reckoning arrive soon after the discovery.

Bud enters the Keerah war with dragons at his side. Rebuilding dragon kind turns out to require more than raw power.

The Dragon Host is now central to a new League order. Greater importance only means greater threats gathering around it.

Jane thinks Jon has been coasting, and the next conflict makes that impossible. The war turns personal again.

Liza Pound is a mystery in training and a terror in combat. Chasing command means accepting the nickname she hates and the job it implies.

Liza now has more than she ever planned for, and that only paints a brighter target on her back. The next move is not hers alone.

Liza can feel the bullseye settling in. This time the threat rising against her is personal, organized, and hard to dodge.

Liza needs a solution to her fox problem. Pushing the wrong enemies too far may be unavoidable, but it is never cheap.

Liza has yanked on one tail too many. The backlash is exactly as fierce as the title suggests.

A hard setback threatens the company and everything it has built. Lyla has to decide what can still be salvaged.

Old grudges and fresh jobs leave the company on unstable ground. Lyla has to keep everyone moving while the balance refuses to hold.

Lyla Cowan loses her command and gets dumped with a bunch of misfits. Building a mercenary life from that feels, quite reasonably, unfair.

A harsh assignment tests Lyla's patience and principles. The job gets harder when mercy and practicality point in different directions.

The Badlands problem grows stranger and more dangerous. Lyla finds herself dealing with a situation that feels almost unreal until it starts shooting back.

The Unbound crew is finally moving under its own flag. One rough job proves how fast mercenary work can turn a ship into a target.

As Lyla grows into leadership, the threats she cannot see become the ones that matter most. Mercenary life does not reward blind spots.

Lyla's new crew takes its first steps as mercenaries and learns how quickly a client, a sector, or an enemy can be underestimated.

A rare chance to breathe never lasts long for Lyla's crew. The moment they relax, the universe finds a new way to tighten the screws.

Dennis is reinventing himself again, this time with magic involved. Everyday problems become urgent when a late-blooming mage is on the scene.

Karen's war enters a dangerous middle phase where mixed loyalties and half-seen threats make every decision feel unstable.

Dennis Block's magic arrives late and awkwardly at seventy. Starting a new life as a mage turns out to require actual training.

Karen gets two shocks at once, one professional and one personal. Defending home gets harder when the limits above her keep shifting.

The shadow over Terra deepens. Karen faces the full weight of invasion, command pressure, and the cost of holding the line.

A seasonal adventure in the late-blooming mage world, where celebration, pressure, and practical magic all arrive at once.

Magic meets practical work in a quieter, earthier adventure. Growing things may be simpler than fighting wars, but not by much.