William D Arand Books in Order

The resistance, the pet pens, and the alien owners are all racing toward a final collision. To free humanity before his mysterious benefactor calls in their favor, Wrench must push his overclocked body and mind further than ever and hope he survives the strain.

Edmund’s quiet life as the man behind the curtain is over once his power draws attention from forces even Legion fears. To prevent disaster on a global scale, he must decide whether to keep patching small tragedies or risk everything on one final, irreversible save.

Now a full privateer captain with a crew of lovable disasters, Ralph is paid to burn enemy fleets down to their deck plates. Each raid and haul of prize money drags him deeper into a universe spanning conflict his sarcasm alone cannot defuse.

Ryan Hale survived a brutal convoy mission and came back able to see ghosts, guided by an undead boy who has turned his life into a quest log. A new job in haunted Noxfield, West Virginia offers a fresh start, but the town’s secrets may be worse than its spirits.

On the far side of multiple tribulations, Ash is no longer just surviving his world but bending parts of it around his will. Each victory, however, knots him tighter into conflicts on a scale that could consume every place and person he has come to care about.

Now a decorated Cavalier and founder of House Hesh, Wayne is learning that victory only invites bigger battles. As civil war brews inside the Confed, his mercenary company is pulled into a conflict that could topple governments and rewrite the rules for every Walker pilot.

The Wastes have become a worldwide battleground and Vince stands at the center of human and monstrous factions alike. To keep Yosemite and his hard won empire alive, he must decide how much blood and compromise their future is worth.

Now a reluctant prince with impossible multi class powers, Dominic finds nobles waging war in his name without ever having met him. As dungeons collapse and rival houses move, he has to master his gifts fast enough to keep usurpers from stealing his throne.

As Legion’s shadow wars escalate, Edmund’s saves get more complicated and their failures more haunting. Balancing loyalty, romance, and morality grows harder when every timeline he abandons leaves him with memories of people he could not quite save.

Ralph Turlan uses his family’s letter of marque to blur the line between smuggler and sanctioned pirate on the edge of the Terran Confed. When war with the Blood of Calesat erupts, a new commission turns his freelance hustle into officially licensed destruction.

Pushing beyond local politics, Ash’s cultivation and faction begin to draw notice from powers that span the VeilVerse. As old secrets about the Hall and Locke surface, he is forced to question what kind of destiny he is really walking toward.

Denied military service, Wayne cobbles together his own thirty foot Walker from junkyard scraps and sheer stubbornness. Just as his dream machine finally stands ready, his home world lurches toward interstellar war and shoves him into the center of the fighting.

Jeremiah hunts monsters from the shadows, doing the ugly work polite society refuses to admit is necessary. Years of staring into the abyss have changed him, and when the truths behind his war are finally revealed, he must decide whether he has become the very thing he fights.

Dominic wants to grind levels and enjoy a quiet life despite his father’s grim job as executioner. When his family is murdered and a dragon ancestor starts whispering in his head, he learns he is the hidden heir to a broken kingdom on the edge of civil war.

Armed with knowledge of the future and a terrifying ability to rewrite his own body, Wrench starts quietly reshaping the Habitat from within. Every upgrade to himself or his allies risks drawing the notice of beings who see humans as nothing more than toys.

Felix has pushed Legion and the Association to the center of god level conflicts that span worlds. To reclaim Andrea and secure his people’s future, he has to play politics with deities, rivals from other universes, and allies who may be just as dangerous as his enemies.

Edmund cleans up dirty jobs for Legion, from body disposal to hush money, in a world where heroes and villains are always on the brink of war. Secretly, he can save and reload reality like a game, a power he mostly uses to keep his crush and little sister alive.

Imprisoned by an emperor who underestimates him, Ash must choose between quietly slipping his chains or seizing the prison itself as a base of power. His decisions inside those walls will reshape factions, rival sects, and the balance of forces chasing his fate.

Across North America and beyond, Vince’s decisions reverberate through fragile alliances and old grudges. As new enemies adapt to his tactics and old threats resurface, he must balance protecting his family with steering an emerging empire through constant crisis.

Vince now rules a sprawling stretch of the Wastes and carries responsibility for everyone inside his borders. A mission overseas turns him into the cargo, sending him to Europe to export Yosemite’s brutal blend of magic and technology to an unprepared continent.

Wrench was born to be a Fixer, a human pet who keeps an alien Habitat running smoothly for its owners’ amusement. After a wasted life in a failing resistance, he is sent back into his own past with a body hacking power that might finally let him change everything.

Operating behind the neutral front of the Association, Felix works to turn Legion into a global force that stands above heroes, villains, and nations. Every step closer to bringing Kit and Lily home raises the stakes for the entire planet he is reshaping.

Driven from Earth and mourning those he lost, Felix accepts an offer from Runner to rebuild Legion on another world. If he can conquer a country’s government and remake it in his image, he might earn the chance to rescue the women he failed to save.

Recognized as a Fated One with a unique dao, Ash draws the attention of royal families, realm lords, and beings who think in eras. Surviving his next tribulation means turning growing influence into something more than brute strength before stronger players close in.

Now feared as the arbiter of Retribution, Warner spends his days balancing scales with blood or penance while trying to raise his daughter and manage complicated relationships. Overuse of his power is literally killing him just as a world shaking reckoning approaches.

The cost of Warner’s power has already killed him once and left him carrying the mantles of Vengeance, Retribution, and Redemption together. As world changing forces converge, he must decide who truly deserves judgement and what kind of future he is willing to bleed for.

War looms over Felicie and the mysterious Mask stands in the crosshairs of every plan. To keep his second life from collapsing, Rene must wield all his old skills and game like gifts without becoming the very Monster he once served.

Sam has turned his consulting firm and private army into a serious power, but his long running feud with Jenaphila is finally boiling over. To protect his people and keep his freedom, he must risk the fate of the prime plane in a direct clash with a demon empire.

Now working for his contractor turned wife instead of the government, Gus is hired to break an organized crime syndicate that wants to drag the world back into the dark ages. Old military ghosts and primordial threats make this case more lethal than anything on his desk.

Warner is a tired call center worker and devoted dad until his little girl is nearly killed, exposing a hidden world of monsters and magic. Chosen as the living embodiment of Retribution, he turns his grief into a terrifying, very personal form of justice.

Now master of a citadel in the Creeplands, Steve has carved out a fragile refuge for men and monsters alike. As Lamals and other powers move to control or destroy him, he has to decide how far he will go to finish the task his past self accepted.

In a new city, Rene wears three faces at once, respectable moneylender, masked vigilante, and underworld boss. As he builds an orphanage and a criminal empire together, the power he amasses makes him a target for rivals who would tear apart everything he’s rebuilt.

Sam’s door to door deals have grown into a modern consultancy and private military company that hunts criminals across the planes. As he rebuilds his strength and gathers lovers and allies, his quiet vendetta against a former partner draws the attention of godlike enemies.

With his dantian opened and people now depending on him, Ash begins building a faction in a brutally competitive martial world. Guided by the Hall and the voice called Locke, he walks a narrow path between rival sects, cosmic forces, and very human enemies.

After surviving an explosive first case, Gus has lost his badge and the stability of his old life. With Melody, Vanessa, and a small harem now relying on him, he leans into being an apex predator again and discovers trouble has been waiting for that decision.

Gus is a veteran detective in the Paranormal Investigations Department who prefers paperwork to danger and hides the fact he is a boogieman. A strange new case, a keen rookie, and a chaotic contractor blow up his quiet routine and drag him into paranormal politics.

With the Creep buried under rubble and a family growing around him, Steve wants to focus on crops and children. Bandits, a predatory kingdom, and new messages from his forgotten self make it clear his real mission stretches far beyond one valley of fields.

Steve wakes in an empty field with no memories, a pile of farm tools, and floating messages from his past self warning he has already failed once. While the world collapses into undead horror, he turns a struggling farm into his only shield against the Creep.

Rene spent his life killing to feed the Monster in his mind, buying brief peace with other people’s blood. When a job goes wrong and he dies, a Watcher sentences him to a second life centuries earlier in another world, where every act must truly help others.

Sameerixis, or Sam, is an incubus who once traded solutions to any problem for years or nights of a client’s life. Freed from long imprisonment, he steps through a portal to restart his one man business, only to find a new plane full of dangerous opportunities.

As the war with Gaelis tilts in his duchess’s favor, Alex has turned his county into a showpiece of wealth and order. He dreams of settling down, yet politics, old bargains, and his demonic creditor refuse to let him walk away from the game.

Now Count of Brit, Alex wants a stable life with his Numbered and his wife, but his duchess has plans that drag him deeper into a grinding war. A plea from the Wild Lands forces him to use soul binding deals on a much larger stage.

Forced into the body of an avatar and fleeing a fallen queendom with its rightful queen and a mysterious child, Ryker starts over yet again. Taking back the realm means mastering his new form, outplaying undead legions, and deciding what kind of future he fights for.

Ryker’s hunger for revenge has left him a hostage count, married into the royal line and sitting at ground zero of a holy war. To keep his people alive, he must turn a shattered county and a temperamental dungeon into a fortress no army can easily break.

Years after fleeing his first headquarters, Felix and Legion are locked in a shadow war against enemies who wield godlike magic. As old gods return and nations fracture, he pushes for one decisive play that might finally secure his people’s future.

Yosemite has become a prosperous city state, but stability comes with new enemies. When a skirmish to the south threatens to ignite a wider war, Vince must protect his people against forces that would rather erase the Waste than share power with it.

Alex dies over a seemingly minor corporate decision and wakes in a dark ages world owing his soul to a terrifying patron. To stave off eternal damnation, he forges secret pacts that trade away pieces of other people’s lives for power and survival.

Cast out of his adventurers’ guild for being too weak, Ryker returns with a secret prize, a dormant dungeon core. When the crystal finally awakens, his revenge plan collapses into chaos and he finds himself bound to the dungeon and entangled in noble politics.

Talented martial artist Ash is yanked from Earth into a cultivation world where the strong fly and the weak die. After years scraping by as a powerless citizen, he discovers an ancient Hall and a snarky guide that offer him a dangerous path to real power.

After a pre war experiment shatters North America, ranger Vince guides people through the monster filled Waste that rose in its place. A simple escort job drags him into a conspiracy that will reshape Yosemite City and the future of everyone left alive.

Now running the fast growing company Legion, Felix expands into a new city while juggling payroll, politics, and hostile hero guilds. The local government has no idea who they have just approved permits for, and discovering the truth could spark open conflict.

Felix lives in a city state run by a Super Villain with a seemingly useless power, the ability to upgrade anything he owns at huge cost. A trip to the black market shows him how to exploit it, buying broken heroes and villains to fuel a very illegal empire.

With Yosemite City rising as a power between coastland nations, Vince pushes its reach east through hostile territory and rival factions. Each mission he accepts to secure trade and alliances only paints a bigger target on the city he now calls home.

Runner’s party escapes their first city only to find the game’s rules warping around their choices. With NPCs awakening into real people and the outside world contacting him, he has to survive nightmare mode challenges while acting as gamer, sysadmin, and officer at once.

Runner Norwood wakes inside a full immersion game with his memories scrambled and hundreds of thousands of crewmates equally trapped. As the only IT tech who might know the logout password, he must level up, rebuild his mind, and keep everyone from dying for real.

After clawing out a fragile peace and logging some of the crew to safety, Runner becomes a target for gods, corporations, and the server itself. To win a future for both worlds, he must gamble everything on the kind of reality he wants to wake up in.