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Six main books, four companions. Pick the line that sounds like you.
“Just tell me which book.”
The Lightning War: Rising Storm
It's book one of the main saga, it's where everything starts, and if you don't like it you can stop having spent one book.
“I want the whole thing, in order.”
Read Book 1 to Book 6 in order. The full reading order shows where the companions fit.
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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.
“I've read the saga. What else?”
Four companion ebooks set in the same universe. Station Alpha and The Husaria Gambit are prequels; the full reading order places each one.
The Lightning War — companion
Station Alpha
Before Maria, her mother paid the price of the bubble drive.
The Lightning War — companion
New Warsaw Gambit (The Lightning War)
An invisible war for quantum AI, fought inside Polonia Prime.
The Lightning War — companion
The Tartarus Shear (The Lightning War)
A doomsday device that tears reality apart, and one captain caught between two fleets.
The Lightning War — companion
The 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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