For ten years Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Today, outlawed by the Republic he founded, he wages a rogue battle on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the imagine Eo. But simply because he leaves death and devastation in his wake, is certainly he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another story rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, offers returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back again to mankind at the edge of his sword, he must get over about Dark Age or unite the treacherous Gold groups of the Core and encounter down Darrow over the skies of war-torn Mercury. But theirs are not the only fates hanging in the total amount. On Luna, Mustang, Sovereign of the Republic, campaigns to unite the Republic behind her hubby. Beset by politics and criminal opponents, can she outwit her competitors in time to save lots of him? Once a Red refugee, young Lyria right now stands accused of treason, and her just hope can be a desperate escape with unlikely brand-new allies. Abducted by a new threat towards the Republic, Pax and Electra, the kids of Darrow and Sevro, must trust in Ephraim, a thief, for their salvation-and Ephraim must look to them for his possibility at redemption. As alliances shift, break, and re-form-and power is seized, dropped, and reclaimed-every participant is at risk in a game of conquest that could turn the Rising into a new Dark Age group.