Wondering where to start? Here is the reading order of all of my novel series, plus links to box sets that are available.
The Slums of the Solar System
These books are all stand alones and can be read in any order. They each take place in a near-future world where a plague nearly wiped out the human population on Earth and people live in over-crowded space stations and domed cities throughout the Solar System.
The Travels of Scout Shannon
Scout Shannon is an orphan on a war-torn world far from Galactic Central, making a living for herself and her two dogs by delivering messages and packages while secretly hoping to be recruited by the elusive rebel forces. She and her dogs get swept up in events that take her ever farther from home, and further into danger.
The Travels of Scout Shannon Books 1-3
The Travels of Scout Shannon Books 4-6
The Travels of Scout Shannon Books 1-6
The Ritchie and Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries
For Murdina Ritchie, acceptance at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy means one last chance at her dream of becoming a diplomat for the Union of Free Worlds. For Shackleton Fitz IV, it represents his last chance not to fail out of military service entirely.
Solving a murder on the way to school seems like a good way to get in good with their new instructor. But then murders keep happening around them…
Murder on the Intergalactic Railway
The Ritchie and Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries Books 1-3
The Forgotten Planet
History sleeps beneath them all, but only she sees it.
Lafayette Eloi always knew her parents thought differently from others. They kept their books buried beneath her mother’s house. They spoke an old language in the dead of night, whispering behind closed doors and bolted shutters. She grew up in a village where no one was related to her, and she never knew why.
Then, after her mother died, her father came to fetch her. Now she and her mother’s dog assist her father in his work. The work discussed in whispers in the dark. The work that had cost Lafayette so much all her young life.
But now she learns just how much her father’s work means to their entire world. Only no one knows anything about it. Only her father. And only Lafayette.
Because the work that consumed her father’s entire life and her mother’s too now nibbles at the fringe’s of Lafayette’s own life. And she cannot refuse its call.
Raiding the Forgotten Derelict
Plundering the Planetary Secrets (Available March 11, 2025 direct from me or April 15, 2025 in stores everywhere.)
The Vic Harper Caper Novellas
Vic Harper and her gang retired wealthy from their life of thievery and heists. Whether in a luxury condo overlooking the river in Minneapolis or in a modernist mansion built into the side of a mountain in Colorado, life comes easy now.
Perhaps too easy.
The Twelve Days of Christmas Job
Novellas
These have no particular reading order. (Yet. I never rule out future sequels.)
Serials
Tales of the Chai Makhani Trio eBook or print.
Tales of the Chai Makhani Trio podcast details.
Short stories
These also have no particular reading order. You can sample individual stories, but many are also bundled into five- and ten-story collections.
Tales of Blood and Ink (10 story collection)
Tales from Heian-Kyo and Others (5 story collection)
Tales from the Edges and Ends (5 story collection)
Tales of Old Gods and New (10 story collection)
Tales from Forgotten Days (5 story collection)
Tales from Ancient and Future Times (5 story collection)
The Inscrutable Visages of the Sowmyatha
Tales from Across Space (5 story collection)