Timothy Ellis Books in Order

Knots start coming loose in Lyla's world, but freedom is not the same as safety. What opens up also leaves room for trouble.

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.

The alliances holding the crisis together finally crack. Karen has to fight with fewer certainties and sharper risks.

Dennis Block has become good at emergency magic, but settling into one occupation has never suited him. With new demand for his abilities and training he has barely used, he tries colony work before choosing his direction.

The coalition Karen depends on starts to splinter. A war this large only gets deadlier when trust begins to fail.

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

New partnerships might be Terra's best chance to survive. They might also break the moment real pressure hits.

Karen Drayson was a rising Terran officer until sexism and politics shoved her aside. Being recalled home shows her the ceiling can get even lower.

Karen is still trying to hold the line for Terra while her own side keeps doubting her. Above the glass ceiling is something harder and meaner.

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 has a reasonable fleet at last, just in time to be recalled and second-guessed. The enemy ahead worries her less than the superiors behind her.

Dennis Block hoped for a peaceful life before magic changed everything at sixty-five. Already balancing emergency and colony work, he discovers that handling trouble only creates more responsibilities, including a new role in keeping others safe.

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.

Karen has a fleet, but not peace of mind. The long-built threat she feared is finally ready to come due.

The latest crisis forces Lyla to let go of old restraints. What comes next may be freedom, or a whole new kind of trouble.

Plans finally start revealing what they were always leading toward. Lyla watches the next layer of consequences unfold around her crew.

Lyla holds the key to a choice that locks and unlocks at the same time. However it goes, she will be the one living with the consequences.

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

Dennis Block once counted on four free days at Easter, even if the holiday's timing was awkward. Now his magical responsibilities continue around the clock, leaving him to reconcile a familiar break with people who never stop.

After an eventful Christmas, Dennis Block wants to avoid publicity and return to familiar work. A Seer's vision instead draws him toward an expedition, where being the right mage for the job overrides his reluctance to explore.

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

Dennis Block has established his boundaries as a senior mage, but the League's seasonal challenges are approaching. While others worry about Jane's excessive Halloween plans, he looks forward to meeting the occasion with magic of his own.

Lewis Drake is finding new ways to combine magic with space combat as his squadron and militia improve. With important anniversaries approaching, the failed Navy Mage Program faces a transformation from placing individual mages to building magical squadrons.

Dennis Block is comfortable doing practical magic and helping where needed, but wants neither publicity nor students. As competing demands crowd his life, the prospect of becoming a master challenges the limits he has firmly set.

Lewis Drake believes his desired career is finally within reach, until an unwanted change overturns his plans. The Navy Mage Program has struggled to repeat its earliest successes, and its thirteenth squadron becomes his unexpected new beginning.

Dennis Block prefers emergency magic to police work, despite abilities investigators find useful. After helping with kidnappings and murderers, he faces another unwelcome expansion of his responsibilities and must decide how to serve without becoming someone else.

Dennis Block struggles to protect time for the magical work he actually enjoys. When an explorer fleet discovers something startling in the galactic arms, an intriguing new quest competes with obligations and other people's plans for him.

Lewis Drake must guide inexperienced rookies and determine the Navy Mage Program's future while two wars continue. With no proven method to follow, he experiments with magical fighter tactics, knowing that mistakes could cost his pilots their lives.

Dennis Block wants to continue the work he has already begun and resist further demands. Emergencies and outside agendas keep intruding, however, pushing the practical mage toward yet another unfamiliar role: reshaping worlds through his magic.

A birthday wish takes Dennis Block toward something he wants by forcing him through the work he most resists. Faced with training duties he never sought, he looks for the quickest way to fulfill them and move on.

Dennis Block has finally found mutual love, but Valentine's Day brings complicated feelings for everyone around him. Using magic to influence romance is forbidden for good reason, making this particular holiday a test of restraint and boundaries.