There are nine books and they all (give or take a few) follow the same main cast. Extremely minor time-skips excluding the following. Spoilers:
There aren’t any time skips besides for minor ones, except at the end of the series, after the destruction of the ring network and the death of holden, where there is a massive time-skip to the point one of the ring colonies develops sufficiently advanced interstellar travel, to the point they are able to visit earth and be greeted by the now-immortal Amos.
Where did you head to that was better?