The Phoenix Enigma: Book 1: Resistance

Download or read book The Phoenix Enigma: Book 1: Resistance written by Jay Aspen and published by Phoenix Enigma. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacinta's grandfather remembers life before resource wars wrecked everything from refineries to satellites, before cities flooded, crops failed and the ruthless Avarit faction took control of the surviving outposts of civilization. For Jac, survival means medic training and foraging for herbs in the forest--as well as protecting their food-crops and solar generator from savage storms and enforcer patrols. Everything changes when their isolated community is attacked and Jac travels to the city. She meets Raine, charismatic leader of the outlawed rangers and is drawn into the Resistance, protecting citizens from Avarit's exploitation and from the terrorist attacks of F2 paramilitaries agitating for a civil war they cannot win. When Jac's inability to fight forces her new friends to risk their own lives to protect her, she questions her role as a non-violent healer, wondering if trust and loyalty will be enough to defeat the regime's heavy weapons and surveillance. Raine searches for allies within the system as well as hunting the traitor in their own ranks, while struggling to maintain the rangers' heightened-awareness lieth training that commits the Resistance to a revolution that doesn't merely replace one despot with another like a phoenix rising from the ashes.