There are 18 books in the The Diving Series series. The newest book is Ivory Trees which came out in 2023.

1
Diving into the Wreck

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Boss dives derelict space vessels, for money, yes, but more for their historical value. So, when Boss uncovers the find of a lifetime, she enlists the best divers she can convince to help her pursue it--off the grid and under the Empire's radar.

Boss' discovery leads her and some of…

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2
City of Ruins

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Years after stumbling across her first Dignity Vessel, Boss now leads a team of people searching for "loose" stealth technology. She takes a team to Vaycehn to investigate a phenomenon called death holes, thinking they might lead her to stealth tech.

Captain Jonathon "Coop" Cooper and the crew of the…

3
Becalmed

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Mae, chief linguist on the Ivoire, heads a diplomatic mission to Ukhanda. Her handling of relations with the Quurzod lead to a battle that causes the Ivoire’s anacapa drive to malfunction, stranding the ship in foldspace. Mae can’t remember what she did wrong on the mission: all she knows is…

4
The Application of Hope

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Captain Tory Sabin knows all too well the dangers of the anacapa drive, and that sometimes ships enter foldspace never to return. The ships simply disappear, taking their crews with them.

Responding to a distress call from Captain Jonathan "Coop" Cooper, Sabin knows she must race against time to find…

5
Boneyards

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Stealth tech: a lost science everyone wants to reclaim. The woman who helped Boss dive the Dignity Vessel, known then as Squishy, claims a long and storied history with stealth tech. Her research into the lost science caused deaths before, and she failed to prevent more during a fateful dive.…

6
Skirmishes

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The answers Captain Jonathon "Coop" Cooper and the crew of the Ivoire seek lie in the Boneyards. But they must wait for Boss and her team to dive it, explore the wrecks, and piece together what happened in that faraway place.

Boss loves the challenge. Thousands of ships, centuries of…

7
The Runabout

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A graveyard of spaceships, abandoned by the mysterious Fleet thousands of years earlier. Boss calls it "the Boneyard." She needs the ships inside to expand her work for Lost Souls Corporation. Yash Zarlengo thinks the Boneyard will help her discover if the Fleet still exists.

Boss and Yash, while exploring…

8
The Falls

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Fleet sector bases close as the Fleet moves on. Everyone knows and expects it. But still, the announcement that Sector Base E-2 will close--although still thirty years in the future--breeds a mood of tension and anxiety.

So, when Rajivk Agwu finds two pairs of shoes on a trail near Fiskett…

9
Searching for the Fleet

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An epic search sparked by a dangerous hope.

Leaving Boss behind to continue diving the Boneyard, Ivoire Engineer Yash Zarlengo returns to the Lost Souls Corporation's headquarters to analyze the data from the runabout they discovered there.

Convinced that the experience in the Boneyard proves the Fleet still exists, Yash…

10
The Spires of Denon

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Kristine Kathryn Rusch's novel Diving into the Wreck spawned a universe so vast that one novel can't contain it. The Spires of Denon doesn't involve Boss or her crew. Instead, this powerful novella follows Meklos Verr, hired to guard an archeological dig near the mysterious Spires of Denon. There Verr…

12
Escaping Amnthra

Escaping Amnthra

When the captain and senior crew abandon the Renegat, linguist Raina Serpell assumes command. She needs to get the ship and remaining crew home.

As the ship comes under attack from the planet below, Raina must first figure out how to operate the ship's firepower. Harder still, she must battle…

13
The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades

The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades

The Renegat Renegades finally learn their fate in New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The Court-Martial of the Renegat Renegades, the gripping new novel in her award-winning Diving series and an Asimov's Readers' Choice Award finalist.

As the surviving crew of the Renegat face court-martial for mutiny-100 years…

14
Thieves

Thieves

A race against time.

Weeks after Boss' injury from the runabout dive, she continues the mission to salvage Fleet wrecks for the Lost Souls Corporation. But Boss feels like she lost something after that fateful dive.

Until something happens in the Boneyard to catch her attention. Something that sparks her…

15
Squishy's Teams

Squishy's Teams

Diving readers know that Squishy enlisted others to help her destroy stealth tech in the novel Boneyards. But exactly what happened to those teams remained a mystery-until now.

Ten people signed up to help Squishy in her fateful mission. Only five returned.

Paired up in teams of two, they set…

16
The Chase

The Chase

On the run.

After fleeing pursuers from two different missions, Boss and Coop reconvene at the Lost Souls Corporation headquarters. Both share exciting but troublesome news.

And a whole lot of questions.

But before they begin to even scratch the surface of the new information, they face threats from all…

17
Maelstrom

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Nedda Ferguson-Lithe lost her father on the Gabriella's final mission. The ship's disappearance remains one of the great mysteries of the sector.

But as Nedda interviews the crew's survivors, she finds more questions than answers.

No one knows who or what causes the maelstroms that make exploring Nájar Crater on…

18
Ivory Trees

Ivory Trees

Ancient tech draws dangerous unwanted attention in international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Ivory Trees, the thrilling new standalone novel in her award-winning Diving series.

When the discovery of a bunker reveals a treasure trove of ancient artifacts, interested parties throughout the Empire-from collectors to academics to researchers-want a piece…