Dark Age

Ten years after Darrow led the uprising that toppled the Society's rule, the world he built has turned against him. The Republic he helped found has cast him out, half his fleet lies in ruins, and he is now an outlaw fighting a rogue campaign on Mercury, outnumbered and outgunned. The question hanging over him is whether he is still the man who broke the chains, or whether he is turning into the kind of evil he once set out to destroy. As Darrow's reputation darkens, another figure steps forward. Lysander au Lune, the displaced heir to the old empire, returns to unite the Golds of the Rim and the Core. If those two powers join forces, they could be deadly to the young Republic. Meanwhile, on Luna, Virginia au Augustus, the Republic's embattled Sovereign, struggles to protect her fragile democracy and her exiled husband, only to find that saving one may mean losing the other. Her son has still not come home. That son, Pax au Augustus, has been taken by enemy agents, and his only hope of survival lies with a Gray thief named Ephraim. Elsewhere, Lyria, a Red refugee accused of treason, makes a desperate attempt at freedom with the help of two unlikely allies. As power is seized, lost and won back again, hope among the Rising fades, and the worlds move steadily toward a new Dark Age. Dark Age is the fifth book in Pierce Brown's Red Rising saga and follows Iron Gold.