How many lies are too many in war?
How many lives are acceptable as collateral damage when you’re busy saving the world?

With the discovery of a new lead in NimKoruguithu, Brenorra Warring is pulled back into the intrigue surrounding her father’s death. After having a fleeting chance at a new life on Aethscaul Island, Bren hopes that all she’ll have to do is solve another coded message. That would have been nice; just go in, get the binder, get out… But nothing is ever that easy, and there is much more at stake than finding her father’s last binder full of secrets.

Determined to finish what her father started, Bren is drawn deep into NaVarre’s upper-echelon world of dark intrigue and political assassination – where innocence is often bought and sold, and beauty is both a weapon and a death sentence. Bren finds herself living a lie, flirting and dancing her way through the sordid, glittering night-life of the rich and powerful, gathering intel while armed with only a pretty disguise and her wits, all so NaVarre can infiltrate the Ascension’s leadership. 

When a devastating betrayal turns trust into a dangerous commodity, lines begin blurring. Where does justice end and revenge begin? Where is the truth in the suspicion? Bren must grapple to keep her identity grounded in Christ as she walks the razor’s edge between hunting monsters… and becoming one. 

The riveting story that started in Shadow Road continues in this second installment of the Shadows of Resistance series.

NOTE: This is a complete Christian rewrite of a previously published secular novel of the same name.