The Camerons envisioned the books as a modern-day Hornblower series, depicting the life of a modern naval officer from his earliest career until his retirement.

The first book, Killer of Men (published in 2010), is named after Achilles, the man-killer of the Iliad, and covers in first person the early life of Arimnestos and his participation in the Ionian Revolt.

Poseidon's Spear (2013) covers the five years after Marathon and is a more personal tale of adventure, exploration, and revenge across the western Mediterranean and Atlantic Europe.

In addition to the battles, the series also features aspects of life in ancient Greece, such as smithery, farming, and sailing, and historical figures such as Heraclitus, Aristides, Gorgo, and Xerxes.

Based loosely around the exploits of Sir William Gold, one of Sir John Hawkwood's lieutenants in Italy, this series begins with Gold's life as a goldsmith's apprentice in London just after the great plague of 1347 and will continue through the Battle of Poitiers and the Savoyard Crusade, as well as the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, right through to the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, covering the history of the period—military, chivalric, and literary—in England, France, Italy, and Greece and roughly in parallel with the career of Chaucer's knight.

A magical fantasy alternate medieval setting fictional universe, written after the conclusion of the Traitor Son pentalogy, planned as a trilogy.

Published as Miles Cameron, the series is set in a far-future human civilization where faster-than-light travel has enabled the settling of many star systems, and enormous Greatships fly trade routes across vast interstellar distances.