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Eleven books looks like a lot. It isn't. Pick the line that sounds like you.

“I want the whole thing, in order.”

The main saga is complete in five books. No cliffhanger ending, no waiting on a sixth.

1. The Lightning War: Rising Storm

   A forgotten colony. A derelict alien ship. The FTL secret that starts a war.

2. The Lightning War: Shadow Of The Storm

   The drive is stolen. The conspiracy reaches the Admiralty.

3. The Lightning War: Wrath Of The Storm

   New Volga burns. Maria fights beside the enemy she was built to fear.

4. The Lightning War: Beyond The Storm

   Earth seals the wormhole. The cluster is on its own — and something wakes aboard the flagship.

5. The Lightning War: Echoes Of The Storm

   Three synchronized attacks. Two thousand dead. The Accord is fracturing.

“I've read the saga. What else?”

Six standalone stories in the same universe. Read them in any order — none of them spoil the main line. Station Alpha is a prequel and works as a first book too, if you'd rather start at the very beginning of the timeline.

1. Station Alpha

   Before Maria, her mother paid the price of the bubble drive.

2. New Warsaw Gambit (The Lightning War)

   An invisible war for quantum AI, fought inside Polonia Prime.

3. Stars Between Us: A Young Adult Science Fiction Adventure (The Lightning War)

   Caught between two worlds, Marta Sobieski has to choose where she belongs.

4. Shadow Courier: Ghost Network (The Lightning War)

   A disgraced spy, a temperamental courier, and a cylinder nobody was meant to find.

5. The Tartarus Shear (The Lightning War)

   A doomsday device that tears reality apart — and one captain caught between two fleets.

6. The Husaria Gambit (The Lightning War)

   An obsolete destroyer, a defector, and the opening move of a conspiracy.