Books with author Amanda McCardie

Thrown once again into the wild, Ellia is alone. She has betrayed those who trusted her so she can face her mother and stop the Church's terrible war tearing apart the countryside. She knows she's walking into a trap, but she can't sit by and watch the world burn.Kieva, sworn to protect Ellia, is trapped underground, forced to deal with the wrath of Seth, the mad leader of the Order, a group fighting against the Church. Wracked with guilt that he cannot perform his duty, he loses hope until Lorensa, a woman who remembers what the Order once stood for, gives him new purpose. Save the world.Ellia and Kieva must fight for what they believe in or at least die trying.Galileo's Ascension is the final book in the New Dark Ages Trilogy.

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." For Ellia McAllister, it couldn't be more accurate.Thousands of years after a devastating cataclysm, humanity lives in a new dark age. Technology and science are forbidden and a matriarchal church rules society. However, Ellia is ruled only by her curiosity. Defying the Church, she learns that all is not as it seems in the holy books and that humans once traveled to the stars and possibly beyond.Her knowledge and defiance will mean her death and the death of her family unless she escapes. When she meets the mysterious Kieva, a nomadic Rover, she soon learns that more is going on in the Church than she ever thought possible. Without his help, her life, the lives of thousands of others, and mankind's future are at risk. Can she set her own beliefs aside, her way of life, and trust a stranger? Even if trusting him might mean her death?

Jack is an orphan. His parents brought him to Mars, believing it to be the realization of their dreams. When a plague claimed his mother and shattered his father, Jack was spared, but forever changed. Alone and haunted by strange dreams of the planet's surface, Jack must find his way. The only safe haven is an orphanage for Red Children known as the Nursery, run by a woman called Nana. It's a place Jack can call home.When a new doctor comes, looking for a cure for the plague that claimed his mother, Jack's world is turned upside down. He and the other children are treated like lab specimens. They fear for their lives.Jack must make a choice: Work with the doctor and find a cure or fight for his way of life.