Новинки Джоан Рэнделл

AN HEIR. A RENEGADE
A CONVICT. A CYBORG
A DÉFECTEUR

FIVE REBELS. ONE REVOLUTION.

It’s been three months since the Patriarche was beheaded, leaving behind no heir. From the outside, Laterre seems to be flourishing. General Bonnefaçon has cleaned up the streets, fed the hungry, and restored peace while the next leader is decided upon. But dangerous rifts threaten to shatter the planet from within.

The Red Scar is killing anyone with a legitimate claim to the Regime, while the Vangarde and their freed leader are preparing to overthrow it.

Then, it’s revealed that the Patriarche had a child in secret. A missing heir…

Alouette is the general’s prisoner, interrogated on the whereabouts of his renegade grandson. Marcellus is desperately searching for her, knowing she’s the key to the Vangarde’s plan, but unaware that he’s being hunted by a determined new cyborg. Meanwhile Chatine grows restless, living with a rebel group she doesn’t fit into. Until an old friend solicits her help to save his Défecteur community from a mysterious, new threat. A threat that will tie them all together.

When the general makes an explosive play for power, allegiances will shift, rebels will become leaders, barricades will rise, and the tinderbox of Laterre will finally ignite, launching a revolution five hundred years in the making

Laterre is on the brink of war. The Third Estate are rioting against the injustices of a corrupt system. The Patriarche, reeling from the murder of his only heir, makes brutal attempts to quash the unrest, while a new militant faction launches a series of deadly attacks.

Marcellus is now a traitor to his planet, willing to do anything to stop his grandfather from seizing control of Laterre, even if it means joining the Vangarde, a rebel group back from the dead.

Chatine is a prisoner on Bastille. Desperate to survive the harsh conditions of the moon, she becomes embroiled in the Vangarde’s dangerous attempt to free their infamous leader.

Alouette is a fugitive who has been lied to her entire life. Searching for the truth about her mysterious past, she soon finds herself hunted by the Regime for reasons she’s only beginning to understand.

But when Laterre is threatened by the emergence of a deadly new weapon, these three renegades must risk everything, traveling to the far reaches of the System Divine and into the white hot center of a planet ready to ignite.

«Эта система с ее тремя прекрасными Солнцами и двенадцатью пригодными для жизни планетами могла стать для жителей гибнущего Первого Мира новым домом», – гласит летопись. Пятьсот лет назад планета-колония Латерра и вправду сулила надежду на счастливую жизнь. Однако история повторяется: правящая династия пирует во дворце, а бедняки голодают, не имея крова над головой.…

«Эта система с ее тремя прекрасными Солнцами и двенадцатью пригодными для жизни планетами могла стать для жителей гибнущего Первого Мира новым домом», — гласит летопись. Пятьсот лет назад планета-колония Латерра и вправду сулила надежду на счастливую жизнь. Однако история повторяется: правящая династия пирует во дворце, а бедняки голодают, не имея крова над головой. Но народное терпение не бесконечно, и довольно одной искры, чтобы на планете разгорелся бунт. Такой искрой становится известие об убийстве маленькой инфанты... На Латерре воцаряется хаос, и в эти страшные дни судьба сводит вместе троих молодых людей, почти подростков, которые никогда бы не встретились в мирное время. Юная воровка Шатин хочет навсегда покинуть нищую родину и ради этого становится шпионкой. Офицеру Марцеллу, принесшему клятву верности Режиму, прочат в будущем пост командора. Алуэтт живет в приюте подземной Обители и мечтает стать хранительницей тайной библиотеки. Эти трое еще не знают о том, какие роли уготованы им в опасной игре под названием революция...

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A thief. An officer. A guardian.

Three strangers, one shared destiny . . .

When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. A new life for a wealthy French family and their descendants. But five hundred years later, it’s now a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme; where the clouds hide the stars and the poor starve in the streets; where a rebel group, long thought dead, is resurfacing.

Whispers of revolution have begun—a revolution that hinges on three unlikely heroes…

Chatine is a street-savvy thief who will do anything to escape the brutal Regime, including spy on Marcellus, the grandson of the most powerful man on the planet.

Marcellus is an officer—and the son of a renowned traitor. In training to take command of the military, Marcellus begins to doubt the government he’s vowed to serve when his father dies and leaves behind a cryptic message that only one person can read: a girl named Alouette.

Alouette is living in an underground refuge, where she guards and protects the last surviving library on the planet. But a shocking murder will bring Alouette to the surface for the first time in twelve years…and plunge Laterre into chaos.

All three have a role to play in a dangerous game of revolution—and together they will shape the future of a planet.