Start hereThe Lightning War: Rising Storm
A forgotten colony. A derelict alien ship. The FTL secret that starts a war.
Series
The Lightning War
A military science fiction saga about a forgotten Polish colony, a stolen alien FTL drive, and the officer who has to hold the line.
Six main ebooks and four companion ebooks in the Hyades Cluster.
Maria Roszak goes from junior officer on an obsolete destroyer to the commander of a cluster that no longer answers to Earth. The main books read in order, Book 1 to Book 6.
The companion novels and novellas are set in the same cluster. The full reading order shows where each one fits.
Main sequence
Read in this order
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Book 2The Lightning War: Shadow Of The Storm
The drive is stolen. The conspiracy reaches the Admiralty.
Book 3The Lightning War: Wrath Of The Storm
New Volga burns. Maria fights beside the enemy she was built to fear.
Book 4The Lightning War: Beyond The Storm
Earth seals the wormhole. The cluster is on its own.
Book 5The Lightning War: Ghost Network
A disgraced spy, a temperamental courier, and a cylinder nobody was meant to find.
Book 6The Lightning War: Echoes Of The Storm
Three synchronized attacks. Two thousand dead. The Accord is fracturing.
Timeline
The sequence at a glance
Start here
The Lightning War: Rising Storm
A forgotten colony. A derelict alien ship. The FTL secret that starts a war.
Book 2
The Lightning War: Shadow Of The Storm
The drive is stolen. The conspiracy reaches the Admiralty.
Book 3
The Lightning War: Wrath Of The Storm
New Volga burns. Maria fights beside the enemy she was built to fear.
Book 4
The Lightning War: Beyond The Storm
Earth seals the wormhole. The cluster is on its own.
Book 5
The Lightning War: Ghost Network
A disgraced spy, a temperamental courier, and a cylinder nobody was meant to find.
Book 6
The Lightning War: Echoes Of The Storm
Three synchronized attacks. Two thousand dead. The Accord is fracturing.
Same universe, other corners
Companion ebooks
Companion prequelStation Alpha
Before Maria, her mother paid the price of the bubble drive.
Companion novellaNew Warsaw Gambit (The Lightning War)
An invisible war for quantum AI, fought inside Polonia Prime.
Companion novellaThe Tartarus Shear (The Lightning War)
A doomsday device that tears reality apart, and one captain caught between two fleets.
Companion prequelThe Husaria Gambit (The Lightning War)
An obsolete destroyer, a defector, and the opening move of a conspiracy.
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Before Maria Roszak commanded anything, she was an ensign on an obsolete destroyer, pulling refugees out from under a Caliphate fleet with nothing but a well-drilled crew and a ship everyone else had written off. First Thunder is the prequel novella to The Lightning War — free, and it's yours in about thirty seconds.
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