A soldier for the rebellion has drawn her into a rogue army’s plot to overthrow the Republic and shatter its brutal caste system. The deadly war of intrigue between her new masters and her ruthless family is but one conflict challenging Roselle. But the woman who bore her would sooner see Roselle dead than let her usurp her firstborn brother’s command. Now, powerful factions conspire to subvert the lines of succession, positioning Roselle to replace her mother as leader of the Republic’s armed forces. Sismode was pressed into military service to battle the rebel uprising threatening the society that enslaves her. Sismode returns in the second book of the epic Secondborn series by USA Today bestselling author Amy A. Rebel Born (Secondborn Book 3) - Releases January 15, 2019 Traitor Born (Secondborn Book 2) - Release April 17, 2018

As the consequences of her actions ripple throughout the Fates Republic, can Roselle create a destiny of her own? Or will her Fate override everything she fights for-even love? Now her decision to spare an enemy on the battlefield marks her as a traitor to the state.īut Roselle finds an ally-and more-in fellow secondborn conscript Hawthorne Trugrave. Televised since her early childhood, Roselle’s privileged upbringing has earned her the resentment of her secondborn peers. Sismode’s eighteenth birthday arrives with harsh realizations: she’s to become a soldier for the Fate of Swords military arm of the Republic during the bloodiest rebellion in history, and her elite firstborn mother is happy to see her go. On Transition Day, the second child in every family is taken by the government and forced into servitude. Secondborns are the property of the government.

Intuition by Amy A. Bartol