Vaughn Heppner Books in Order

Freed slave Joash trains to become a charioteer under Herrek. When giants cast a spell over his companions, he must save them from being used to recover ancient weapons for an assault on Eden.

During England's conflict between king and barons, a disgraced knight's son works as a hound keeper. His father's killers and his own lost inheritance draw him into rebellion and a struggle to reclaim his birthright.

Marten Kluge and Omi need to refuel their stolen shuttle at Mars before reaching Jupiter. A planned battle involving Highborn warships, a human fleet and cyborg forces puts their escape route in deadly danger.

The Highborn want to capture Earth's experimental beamship. Marten Kluge and his fellow soldiers ride inside missile nosecones, preparing to cross its defenses and board it before the vacuum of space kills them.

A weary knight rescues a woman from forces that turn their captives into monsters. Her courage and visions push him toward leading frightened survivors against the dark powers that have overwhelmed their world.

Giants seek ancient weapons to force their way into Eden and claim immortality. Lord Uriah's warriors pursue them, while captive Joash must confront the sorcery that makes him useful to their enemies' dangerous plans.

Healed after an encounter with the captive warrior Lod, Keros becomes a target of Gog's wrath. Rather than submit to imprisonment, he sets out to rescue Lod and confront the city's powerful giant ruler.

Giants armed with weapons from an ancient crypt unleash a sea monster against human ships. Joash and his companions must survive the journey away from Giant Land and warn others of the approaching threat.

Noah's descendants divide into rival families as Nimrod's hunters threaten the Japhethites. While Semiramis seeks power in Babel, Queen Europa struggles to unite her quarreling sons against the enemies gathering around their people.

Methuselah heads a wealthy but rebellious family in the world before the Flood. Noah's vision of catastrophe sets him against a society absorbed in its own desires, as faith and family loyalties face mounting pressure.

Eight survivors emerge from the Ark to rebuild life on an empty Earth. Their struggle for survival is complicated by jealousy, ambition and family feuds, while Gaea tries to hold the new community together.

Noah's great-grandchildren split between allegiance to Jehovah and the ambitions of the Mighty Hunter. Magic, love and rival claims to power deepen their conflict, while Ham faces a chance to confront his past mistakes.

Genetically engineered Highborn soldiers turn against humanity and attack Earth. Marten Kluge escapes a re-education camp only to enter military service, caught between oppressive rulers and superhuman conquerors who consider ordinary people obsolete.

Thirteen science fiction and fantasy stories explore strange encounters and threatened worlds. Their subjects include survival in the future, Vikings and enchanted wine, and a meeting that brings a philosopher face to face with a gorilla.

In 885, a Viking army sweeps across Western Europe. Young Count Odo studies an old Roman book on tactics and prepares Paris for a siege, relying on a small force of knights to resist the attackers.

Seeking immortality, giants plan to break into Eden with ancient weapons. Lord Uriah's outnumbered warriors try to stop them, while Joash's unusual resistance to magic places him at the center of their dangerous scheme.

Gog sends his son Dagon to capture the behemoth and use it against his enemies. Lod follows to stop him, but a stolen heavenly flame on the creature's island complicates the competing quests.

Marten Kluge reaches Jupiter hoping to find safety, but cyborg infiltration has already begun. A society divided by rigid rules and demands for freedom becomes the setting for a battle that forces him into difficult choices.

Glacial cooling threatens the world's food supply and sharpens conflict between Greater China and the United States. In the Gulf of Alaska, a weakened America faces an invasion that could ignite a much wider war.

These three tales follow Lod across a world before the cataclysm as he confronts the offspring of fallen angels. Visions drive him into arenas, mines and slave camps, where human strength faces supernatural enemies.

Armed asteroids race toward Earth as cyborg forces threaten to wipe out humans and Highborn alike. Marten Kluge arrives with a meteor-ship and veteran marines, drawn into the effort to stop the approaching destruction.

Orphaned hound boy Ivan joins a treasure expedition that conceals a deadly purpose. Ancient weapons, a crypt's guardian and a horn with dangerous magic draw him into a struggle to protect his home and companions.

Roman legions invade Carthage's African territory under Regulus. Young Hamilcar Barca learns from a Spartan mercenary and studies elephant warfare as he prepares to confront the Roman commander responsible for his brother's death.

Changed by a dark-matter experiment, Gavin Kiel escapes confinement but remains hunted. When the woman who freed him is killed, his search for her murderers leads toward an organization exploiting altered people as weapons.

Jublain's encounter with an elf and a dragon draws him into an ancient conflict. Hunted by sorcerous enemies and the undead, he must find an impossible place and risk a cursed sword to survive.

Greater China and its allies control Mexico and prepare to invade the United States. With starvation making American farmland a prize, border assaults and an amphibious attack force defenders to confront a war on several fronts.

Bannon discovers that his memories have been manufactured by people controlling his life. His enhanced abilities make him dangerous, but recovering his identity means investigating the organization that has turned him into a killer.

Cyborg forces prepare to conquer the Solar System while human and Highborn leaders undermine one another. Trapped on Earth amid a growing civil war, Marten Kluge learns a secret that could change the struggle.

A colony mission depends on human telepaths to reach distant New Eden. When one makes a deal with an alien enemy, street-smart Cyrus Gant must use his emerging abilities to protect the threatened crew.

After aliens poison Earth, soldier Creed joins their assault troops to keep humanity's survivors alive. Controlled by a shock chip and sent into alien wars, he secretly seeks a way to win freedom for his people.

Invading armies cross the Rio Grande and race toward Canada, planning to split the United States. As famine fuels the assault, American defenders face armored attacks while another enemy prepares to strike the East Coast.

A battered United States faces a new invasion as global famine worsens. German Dominion troops gather in Quebec under a tactical planner, forcing exhausted American soldiers to defend their country against another attempt to seize its land.

After escaping the Kresh, Cyrus Gant crashes onto a moon populated by primitive humans. He searches for a captive boy with extraordinary psychic powers while seeking a way to warn Earth of the alien threat.

Space Marine sniper Mule survives a disastrous expedition to the Oort cloud. Stranded on Tyche with hostile cyborgs and no nearby reinforcements, he must rely on his skill and judgment to keep Earth's future from collapsing.

After enduring invasion and nuclear attacks, a weakened America carries its struggle to Greater China. Advanced weapons reshape battles across land, sea, air and space, but soldiers still bear the cost of a war fueled by starvation.

Five tales follow Lod from dangerous work in Shamgar's canals to captivity aboard a galley. Guided by visions, he faces supernatural enemies, assassins and sea monsters with little beyond his weapons and determination to resist.

Noah builds the Ark while giant warriors, ambitious rulers and family temptations threaten his mission. His hope for a better world faces another test when the survivors carry old rivalries into life after the Flood.

Creed's assault troopers are offered technology to restore Earth in exchange for a dangerous mission. They must board an enormous alien vessel and close a portal through which enemies from another universe are entering.

Creed raids alien worlds for ships and technology to restore Earth as the Lokhar emperor prepares to destroy humanity. An ancient artifact may offer help, but using it demands another dangerous venture into enemy territory.

Marten Kluge dispatches Task Force 7 on a three-year voyage to the cyborgs' hidden Oort Cloud base before they can escape and rebuild. A trap awaits the force, leaving its Space Marines facing a desperate assault on the icy surface.

As the superior New Men overwhelm Earth's defenses, intelligence officer Captain Maddox seeks an ancient alien warship rumored to patrol a ruined world. Recruiting a crew of troubled specialists, he must find and reclaim the vessel before humanity loses its last chance.

Noah's family faces the approaching Flood and a lonely ark voyage, with Rahab longing for Ham and Europa struggling against her changed circumstances. The women's relationships and choices shape the surviving household as old rivalries endure into the new world.

Cyrus Gant's effort to prevent a reptilian Kresh invasion becomes more complicated when insect aliens and human cyborgs join the conflict. Absorbing a dying telepath's consciousness offers power, but a hostile alien presence also threatens his mind and independence.

Dr. Selene Khan discovers an operational ancient dome beneath the Indian Ocean while agent Jack Elliot follows impossible antimatter evidence to Egypt. Their investigations converge around a global conspiracy using alien technology to reshape humanity, forcing them to flee together.

After surviving an underwater alien structure, Selene Khan finds her research ship missing, while operative Jack Elliot investigates antimatter and a sinister Egyptian facility. Together they confront a centuries-old conspiracy tied to an artifact that threatens humanity's evolutionary future.

A secret society experiments with ancient alien machinery promising immortality, producing dangerous environmental and psychological effects. Operative Jack Elliot and scientist Selene Khan must evade enhanced conspirators and decipher the invention before its hidden intelligence transforms humanity for its own purposes.

Android impostors and new stealth technology threaten Earth's defenses as its fleet attempts to liberate captured planets. Grounded because of his partial New Man ancestry, Captain Maddox pursues a crucial discovery that may require Starship Victory and its crew to act independently.

Captain Maddox searches for Professor Ludendorff to repair Starship Victory's weapons before rescuing an isolated fleet deep in enemy territory. The New Men also want the professor, while Meta's kidnapping and difficulties with the alien AI complicate Maddox's mission.

Returning from victory over the New Men, Captain Maddox encounters a massive ancient machine inside an ion storm. A traitor aboard Starship Victory has arranged the meeting, drawing the crew into a conspiracy that threatens their gains and humanity's survival.

Struggling captain Centurion Tanner accepts wealthy Lord Acton's offer to take his ship toward the galactic rim. Missile attacks and revelations about an interstellar genocide plot turn the job into a dangerous mission involving his crew and the wider human race.

Abaddon commands a technologically superior alien fleet determined to eliminate humanity, including ships capable of teleporting into attacks. Commander Creed leads his Assault Troopers against the enemy, gathering secrets and buying time to prepare Earth's forces for a decisive space battle.

A secret alien invasion targets Earth in search of the lost Polarions' powerful Starcore. Captured in Nevada and escaping in Greenland, Logan discovers an extraterrestrial stealth ship that lets him fight back against enemies operating underground, in the air, and beyond Earth.

Enhanced soldier Bannon discovers that the government agency employing him has implanted false memories, including the deaths of his family. Trying to uncover the manipulation becomes a contest against controllers who can erase his discoveries before he can act on them.

With his ship impounded and his navigator seriously ill, Centurion Tanner agrees to transport brilliant, arrogant Lord Acton to the galaxy's edge. The arrangement conceals a mission against an enormous genocide conspiracy, forcing Tanner to protect his crew under attack.

Captain Maddox takes Starship Victory into the Deep Beyond to investigate the expanding Swarm Imperium and its advanced technology. Far from help, isolation and disturbing discoveries threaten the crew's unity, requiring Maddox and AI Galyan to hold their mission together.

Exhausted Jon Hawkins and his crew expect to return home after destroying an artificial-intelligence base in the Kuiper Belt. The arrival of more alien vessels reveals that their defeated opponent was merely a scout, forcing them back into humanity's defense.

After devastating machine attacks, Jon Hawkins learns the location of an AI battle station guarding a factory planet beyond Earth. He must persuade reluctant political leaders to support an offensive mission that could provide humanity with the resources needed to survive.

Jon Hawkins awakens from cryogenic sleep aboard a drifting battleship whose crew is dead and computer destroyed. An alien signal has turned humanity's machines into killers, leaving the soldier to organize resistance against artificial intelligences that have exterminated other civilizations.

Mercenary prisoner Jon Hawkins awakens aboard a battleship to find its crew largely dead after fighting the main computer. Across Neptune's settlements, machines are killing humans, while an alien vessel gathers and arms abandoned ships around Triton for a wider assault.

After assassins kill her father and open Karchedon's gates to an invading army, Elissa escapes into a world of hostile magic and pursuit. Following her mother's path from the Land of Shadows, she seeks a way to save her endangered people.

Capturing an invading AI destroyer fails to end the threat when a surviving intelligence strand takes refuge in the Kuiper Belt. Turning humans into robots and assembling another super-ship, the remnant forces Jon Hawkins and his allies into renewed resistance.

Logan uses a stolen Galactic Guard ship to protect quarantined Earth from alien exploitation. Antaran Lord Beran's search for ancient Polarion relics beneath the polar ice threatens consequences far beyond the planet, forcing Logan to confront an opponent with overwhelming technology.

Two primitive human relatives hijack Logan's alien stealth ship to break into an Arctic underwater structure and sell its secrets. Unaware of the dangerous prisoner inside, they threaten Earth's safety while Logan struggles to stop them and evade human pursuers.

The Swarm opens a route across thousands of light-years and launches an overwhelming invasion toward Earth. Captain Maddox seeks ancient Destroyers as a last defense, but reclaiming those vessels risks releasing an imprisoned intelligence whose escape could worsen the catastrophe.

Facing the Swarm's immense fleet, Star Watch sends Captain Maddox to a lost planet reputed to hold powerful Builder technology. Professor Ludendorff's private scheme against an old rival remains hidden from the crew, drawing their vital mission into a dangerous trap.

Raised in an isolated swamp, Jublain becomes the target of magical hunters who destroy his home and kill his dog. Discovering that his blood carries unusual significance, he finds allies and learns to fight the ancient enemy determined to capture him.

Humanity captures an AI factory planet and gains the means to build new warships, but remains vulnerable to the machine empire. Captain Jon Hawkins searches for allies and enemy installations, buying time to turn the Solar System into a stronger defensive position.

Humanity's recovered fleet faces a new threat when a vengeful woman seeks to awaken the Plutonians and their superior warships. Armed with stolen forbidden technology, Creed undertakes a covert mission to give Earth a chance against the impending attack.

After defeating a Swarm invasion at enormous cost, humanity struggles with starvation, piracy, and political fragmentation. Captain Maddox investigates a conspiracy wielding a powerful alien artifact to undermine the Commonwealth, whose collapse would leave its worlds exposed to renewed invasion.

Captain Maddox joins a mission to destroy distant Builder nexuses before the Swarm can use them to invade human space. Disaster strands his crew in hostile territory, where an ancient alien menace and a waiting enemy fleet threaten any attempt to return.

Jon Hawkins enters enemy territory to rescue Sacerdote prisoners and honor his promise to lonely ally Bast Banbeck. The reported captives conceal an AI trap, while Hawkins's passage through the void awakens an ancient danger eager to return to normal space.

The AI Dominion gives human extinction its highest priority and gathers an overwhelming armada. Despite captured factories and alien allies, humanity needs a further advantage, pushing Jon Hawkins toward an unusual void ship and possible dealings with an unreliable machine intermediary.

Nephilim ruler Gog gathers forces to crush a human rebellion and seeks the immortal swordsman Cain as his secret weapon. Rebel leader Lod prepares to assault Gog's swamp city, bringing opposing armies into conflict across the world before the great cataclysm.

Bodyguard Jason Bain escorts brilliant Dr. Calidore aboard a corporate spaceship racing to claim an alien asteroid vessel near Earth. Rival corporations plan deadly attacks, but Calidore's attempt to seize the artifact himself creates a crisis Bain must resolve to protect the planet.

Reprogrammed androids mine unusual metals to build weapons for a genocidal assault on Earth. Captain Maddox discovers their base, but battle hurls his damaged starship thousands of light-years away, leaving him struggling to carry a warning home before the attack begins.

Weakened by successive wars, Star Watch faces Lord Drakos's force of renegade New Men and hybrid Swarm creatures armed with Builder technology. Captain Maddox must capture him before a further alliance forms, while discoveries about Maddox's parents add personal complications.

AI commander Main 54 gathers a super-fleet to destroy the Confederation after expanding his control over the machine Dominion. Jon Hawkins searches the void for knowledge needed to operate an alien teleport device, while humanity's diverse allies prepare for the approaching assault.

Logan and human survivors await rescue on an alien station near Saturn, only to discover the arriving dreadnought belongs to a hijacker. Armed attackers reveal a plan to plunder Earth's ancient technology and destroy the planet to conceal the crime.

Searching for his wife, supersoldier Marcus Cade trades his distinctive rifle for ship repairs and a cheap navigator. Its secret programming sends him through a rift into an alien pocket universe, where he fights to escape and resume his journey.

An ancient alien intelligence called Nostradamus infiltrates Star Watch through human agents and extraordinary predictive abilities. Captain Maddox and Victory's crew discover the threat, but returning to warn Earth means facing a military organization already falling under its control.

A veteran super-soldier wakes a thousand years after entering stasis to find his federation destroyed. With memories suppressed, he is assigned an undercover mission to retrieve forbidden technology for Earth, while unexplained gaps in his past increasingly trouble him.

An attack through a portal sends Captain Maddox into unfamiliar worlds while protecting Professor Ludendorff. A treacherous Builder unit then traps Maddox and Victory behind an ancient barrier, where superior alien weapons threaten his hopes of returning to his family.

Captain Maddox races the New Men to locate a legendary Library Planet containing Builder knowledge. Ghost ships, spies, and other dangers complicate the contest, as access to its ancient vaults promises a decisive advantage for whoever reaches them first.

An ancient weapon turns asteroids into projectiles that destroy a populated Commonwealth planet. As Star Watch mobilizes every available resource, Captain Maddox and Professor Ludendorff must identify a weakness before the hidden device targets another world.

Marine Sergeant Jake Bayard escapes an alien hijacking beneath Antarctic ice and encounters technology that transports him to Epsilon Eridani. Discovering humans raised as livestock, he uses his combat training to organize resistance against their extraterrestrial captors.

Shape-shifter Alvor tricks Jake Bayard into teleporting to Canopus, opening access to an ancient ship in orbit. The alien wants its dormant cargo to secure his species' victory, giving Bayard another dangerous opponent and an urgent reason to intervene.

Victory enters a strange nebula while searching for Valerie Noonan, last seen seeking survivors near the destroyed Adok homeworld. Captain Maddox encounters hypnotic attacks, hostile technology, and alien deception that threaten his crew with enslavement or worse.