The Long Watch

Five years underground. One patient prisoner. All the time in the world.

Half a decade into life inside the Genesis Silo, the coalition has finally found something like peace -- rationing solved, council seated, a new generation of warriors coming of age in the only home they've ever known. Prince Fane has spent every one of those years in a cell, watching, waiting, and patiently building the one thing a coalition can never fully guard against: a willing accomplice.

When his rebellion finally breaks, Lyra faces the same choice her mentor once warned her she would -- kill the threat cleanly, or spare it and live with the consequences. Her answer will haunt the coalition long after the doors to the surface finally open onto a glass desert nobody has seen in five years, and a ship in the sky that was never supposed to still be flying.

• Book Five of The Fallen Arc -- a post-apocalyptic survival and rebellion saga
• For readers who love long-game villains, mercy-versus-justice dilemmas, and time-skip storytelling
• The volume that finally sends the coalition back to the surface -- into a world that has kept its own secrets

Mercy bought them five years of peace. It's about to send the bill.