Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Last Best Hope | 2020 | Kirsten Beyer | Buy |
| 2 | The Dark Veil | 2021 | Kirsten Beyer | Buy |
| 3 | Rogue Elements | 2021 | Kirsten Beyer | Buy |
| 4 | No Man’s Land | 2022 | Kirsten Beyer | Buy |
| 5 | Second Self | 2022 | Kirsten Beyer | Buy |
| 6 | Firewall | 2024 | Kirsten Beyer | Buy |
| 7 | To Defy Fate | 2026 | Kirsten Beyer | Buy |
The Last Best Hope, published in early 2020 just before the Picard television series launched, set up the backstory of the show’s premise. It covers the Romulan evacuation effort that defined Picard’s final years at Starfleet and gives readers who came to the tie-in fiction early a strong grounding in the world the show inhabits.
The books that followed, The Dark Veil, Rogue Elements, No Man’s Land, and Second Self, expand the universe of the television series by following different characters from the show’s ensemble. Firewall, published in 2024, continues this strand. To Defy Fate, scheduled for 2026, is the most recent announced entry in the series.
Beyer’s Picard novels are notable for their connection to the production: she worked as a writer and producer on Discovery and remained closely tied to the franchise during the Picard era. That proximity to the source material gives the books a consistency with the television version of these characters that not all tie-in fiction achieves.