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Reading Order

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.

Mitwa

The Mars of Malcontents

The Whole World for Each

Books 1-3 Box Set


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.

Under Falling Skies

In Quaking Hills

Among Treacherous Stars

Against Impassable Barriers

Over Freezing Altitudes

At Galactic Central

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

Murder in the Skies

Body in the Catacombs

Death on the Summit

An Undiplomatic Murder

A Lethal Betrayal

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 Third Pole Job

The Twelve Days of Christmas Job


Novellas

These have no particular reading order. (Yet. I never rule out future sequels.)

The Intergenerational Tree

I Rise into a Daybreak


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)

                        Tale of a Fox

                        Blood and Ink

                        The Onmyoji’s Wife

                        Seagull and Raven

                        Trifle

Tales from the Edges and Ends (5 story collection)

                        Oil Fire

                        Gardens of Wind

                        Mother River

                        Full Circle

                        On Desperate Seas

                        Din Ba Din


Tales of Old Gods and New (10 story collection)

Tales from Forgotten Days (5 story collection)

                        Impostor Apparition

                        Changing Tides

                        Tear of a Sphinx

                        In the Waste Places

                        Unsafe, Unsound

Tales from Ancient and Future Times (5 story collection)

                        The Story for the Letters

                        Taren and Keui

                        AI:Aesir Intelligence

                        Upon the Lonesome Wild

                        The Inscrutable Visages of the Sowmyatha


Tales from Across Space (5 story collection)

                        Required to Assist

                        Sword and Tattoo

                        Beingly Neighborly

                        Tumbling Up

Death Spiral


The Rod of Circe

While the Rat’s Away

The Fair Folk

Winter’s End

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