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Black Ocean: Passage of Time Books in Order

by J.S. MorinScience Fiction & Fantasy

16 books from Tempus Fugitive: Mission 1 (2023) to Forever Endeavor: Mission 16 (2025). Rated 4.9 across 386 listener reviews.

Reading order

  1. Tempus Fugitive: Mission 1

    Book 1 2023 4.7 (58)

    Jessie and Eric Ramsey have a family history of crime. Fighting back against heredity, each tried to make their way in the galaxy by respectable means. Jessie joined Earth Navy; Eric went to college for magic. But fate wasn’t having it....

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  2. Terran Incognito

    Book 2 2023 4.8 (32)

    Space station Echo Niner remained neutral in the Earth/Mars civil war. For a pair of fugitives on the run from both sides, it sounded like the perfect place to regroup.

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  3. Xeno's Paragon

    Book 3 2023 4.9 (34)

    Eric’s inquisitor parole officers locate him despite having no official jurisdiction. Jessie gets recruited into Phabian’s ultra-secret counterintelligence agency, Section 74.

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  4. Time and Punishment

    Book 4 2023 4.9 (32)

    The astral drop took out all the tech on the ship—maybe for good. They’re so far down that rescue seems unlikely. If they had it to do over again, maybe Eric and Jessie would have found some other way to escape their pursuers....

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  5. Empty Jesters: Mission 5

    Book 5 2024 4.9 (23)

    Captain Jessie Ramsey has a problem. Her giant ship, the newly renamed Arete, needs more crew to keep up and running than she can currently muster.

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  6. Realspace Real Chase: Mission 6

    Book 6 2024 4.9 (24)

    A routine resupply stop takes a terrifying turn when the crew of the Arete realize they're unable to access astral space. Now, intelligence services across the galaxy are realizing that the advanced haathee vessel is trapped in realspace…

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  7. Outlaw World: Mission 7

    Book 7 2024 5.0 (20)

    Desperate for allies, captain Jessie Ramsey enters negotiations with an independent border colony. The planet has food and basic essentials aplenty; the Arete can offer protection in return.

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  8. Who Let the Dogs In

    Book 8 2024 4.9 (23)

    What's worse than an 8-ton eating machine loose on your ship? Four of them.

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  9. Horns and Halos: Mission 9

    Book 9 2025 4.9 (22)

    Captain Jessie Ramsey has brought the starship Arete to the hostile Eyndar Empire. She and her crew have traded the complexities of the Earth/Mars wars for the open hostility of a species that will shoot them on sight.

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  10. The Art of Where: Mission 10

    Book 10 2025 4.9 (17)

    The hunt for captive humans still held in Eyndar Empire space has hit a wall. Captain Jessie Ramsey's assault on Outpost 71 resulted in the liberation of hundreds but little in the way of leads.

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  11. Sister Goldeneye: Mission 11

    Book 11 2025 4.9 (23)

    Fresh off an inglorious defeat, the starship Arete has been thwarted in its noble mission. Unable to move on and find some other way to use the awesome technology at her disposal, Captain Jessie Ramsey seeks payback.

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  12. Rescue Like a Hurricane: Mission 12

    Book 12 2025 4.9 (18)

    Though she's new to the resistance, Jessie Ramsey and the crew of the Arete are the spearhead of an assault that's been years in the making.

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  13. Lies That Bind Us: Mission 13

    Book 13 2025 4.9 (16)

    Carl Ramsey is a dead man. Or he will be soon. Captured by the Eyndar Empire, his old Third War service record becomes a list of charges.

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  14. Words That Hurt You: Mission 14

    Book 14 2025 4.9 (14)

    If he could turn back time, he would find a way... A loved one's life is on the line. The only hope of saving him is a slim one, and so much will have to go right that it would take a miracle to rescue him.

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  15. Earth, Rewind & Fire: Mission 15

    Book 15 2025 4.9 (16)

    Mordecai The Brown was content to move on. He'd had his fun, had his vengeance, and had his next adventure all planned out. Then someone had to get it into their head to extort him for help overthrowing a planet.

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  16. Forever Endeavor: Mission 16

    Book 16 2025 4.9 (14)

    Earth has fallen and Mars is in chaos. With their coup behind them, the Arete crew regroups and plans for life beyond the civil war. There's only one problem: one of their number has yet to return from his undercover mission.

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About this reading order

Books are listed in the series' own numbering, which for Black Ocean: Passage of Time is also the best order to read them in. Years are first publication where we could confirm it, and otherwise the first audiobook release.

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