Book 1 Red Rising
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the
future.
Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making
the surface of Mars livable for future generations.
Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day
result in a better world for his children.
But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed.
Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago.
Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.
Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.
Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow
sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for
the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity's overlords struggle
for power.
He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization
against the best and most brutal of Society's ruling class.
There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies... even if it means he has
to become one of them to do so.
Book 2 Golden Son
As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars,
enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for
his descendants.
But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies.
Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and
their only path to liberation is revolution.
And so Darrow sacrifices himself in the name of the greater good for which Eo, his
true love and inspiration, laid down her own life.
He becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it
from within.
A lamb among wolves in a cruel world, Darrow finds friendship, respect, and even
love—but also the wrath of powerful rivals.
To wage and win the war that will change humankind’s destiny, Darrow must confront
the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his all-too-human desire for
retribution—and strive not for violent revolt but a hopeful rebirth.
Though the road ahead is fraught with danger and deceit, Darrow must choose to
follow Eo’s principles of love and justice to free his people.
He must live for more.
Book 3 Morning Star
Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war.
The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his
people.
But Darrow is determined to fight back.
Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled
to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed
the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the
hierarchy apart from within.
Finally, the time has come.
But devotion to honor and hunger for vengeance run deep on both sides.
Darrow and his comrades-in-arms face powerful enemies without scruple or mercy.
Among them are some Darrow once considered friends.
To win, Darrow will need to inspire those shackled in darkness to break their
chains, unmake the world their cruel masters have built, and claim a destiny too
long denied—and too glorious to surrender.
Book 4 Iron Gold
They call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper.
But he feels a boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his army
vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-second of his
life.
A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the
chains of the Society.
But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has
brought endless war.
Now he must risk everything he has fought for on one last desperate mission.
Darrow still believes he can save everyone, but can he save himself?
And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow’s to change his fate
forever:
A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves for herself a new
life she could never have imagined.
An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most valuable thing in the
galaxy—or pay with his life.
And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign, wanders the stars with
his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss of the world that Darrow transformed, and
dreaming of what will rise from its ashes.
Book 5 Dark Age
For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society.
Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in
hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo.
But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke
the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place?
Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core.
Determined to bring peace back to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must
overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families of the Core and face down Darrow
over the skies of war-torn Mercury.
But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the balance.
On Luna, Mustang, Sovereign of the Republic, campaigns to unite the Republic behind
her husband.
Beset by political and criminal enemies, can she outwit her opponents in time to
save him?
Once a Red refugee, young Lyria now stands accused of treason, and her only hope is
a desperate escape with unlikely new allies.
Abducted by a new threat to the Republic, Pax and Electra, the children of Darrow
and Sevro, must trust in Ephraim, a thief, for their salvation—and Ephraim must
look to them for his chance at redemption.
As alliances shift, break, and re-form—and power is seized, lost, and reclaimed—
every player is at risk in a game of conquest that could turn the Rising into a new
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