Steelstriker

Talin was raised as a Striker, and the first rule she learned was that loyalty is life: to her Shield, to the Strikers who fight beside her, and to Mara. Mara was the last nation still free of the Karensa Federation. Now it has fallen.

In the aftermath, Talin's friends are scattered by combat and her mother is a prisoner of the Premier. To keep her mother alive, she turns on the Strikers and on the country that took her in. The Federation makes her its newest Skyhunter, its deadliest weapon.

Red knows the Federation's cruelty well, and he has been inside its Skyhunter labs, where he suffered torture. He refuses to believe Mara is finished, or that Talin is lost to them. The link between the two of them is weak, yet it may be the one thing left that can repair what the war has taken.

This is the sequel to Marie Lu's Skyhunter, a military fantasy told against a collapsing world. Talin and Red must gather the scattered Strikers and find their way back to each other, while the fate of that broken world hangs in the balance.